Fast Facts

• Grew up on a Christmas-tree farm in Pennsylvania.
• Grandmother was a professional opera singer.
• Won a national poetry contest while in 4th grade.
• Began performing at age 10.
• Sang the national anthem at a Philadelphia 76ers NBA game at age 11.
• Became, at 14, the youngest staff songwriter ever hired by Sony Tree publishing house in Nashville.
• Wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on her self-titled debut CD.
• Favorite outfit is a sundress and cowboy boots.