Kacey Musgraves

From Texas Two Bits to Nashville

Kacey Lee Musgraves was born on August 21, 1988 in Sulphur Springs, Texas, grew up in Golden and then Mineola, and sings and plays guitar, banjo, mandolin, harmonica and keyboards. She formed a country duo, Texas Two Bits, with Alina Tatum in 1999, and made self-produced solo albums in 2002, 2003 and 2007, the first funded by her family when she was 14. She sang the national anthem at the 2002 Winter Olympics, graduated from Mineola High School in 2006, moved to Austin at 18, and finished seventh on the fifth season of Nashville Star in 2007. In 2010 she sang "Oh, Tonight" with the Josh Abbott Band.

She signed with Mercury Nashville in 2012 and toured Europe with Lady Antebellum. Same Trailer Different Park (March 19, 2013, produced by Luke Laird, Shane McAnally and Musgraves) reached 2 on the Billboard 200 and 1 on Top Country Albums, produced the singles "Merry Go 'Round" and "Follow Your Arrow", and won Best Country Album at the 56th Grammys; she also co-wrote Miranda Lambert's "Mama's Broken Heart". Pageant Material followed on June 23, 2015, and the Christmas record A Very Kacey Christmas on October 28, 2016. Golden Hour (March 30, 2018, MCA Nashville) won Album of the Year and Best Country Album at the 61st Grammys; Star-Crossed came on September 10, 2021, and her duet with Zach Bryan, "I Remember Everything", reached number 1 on the Hot 100 in 2023. Deeper Well (March 15, 2024) peaked at 2, and Middle of Nowhere came out on May 1, 2026. Wikipedia counts eight Grammy wins from seventeen nominations.

Her tours include Same Tour Different Trailer (2013 to 2015), the Country and Western Rhinestone Revue (2015 to 2016), Oh, What a World (2018 to 2019), Star-Crossed: Unveiled (2022) and the Deeper Well World Tour (2024), with support slots for Loretta Lynn, Lady Antebellum, Little Big Town, Kenny Chesney, Willie Nelson and Alison Krauss, Katy Perry, George Strait and Harry Styles. Setlist.fm lists 682 setlists, with the Ryman Auditorium and Bridgestone Arena among her most-played venues.