Kelsea Ballerini THERE Taylor Swift To thank, in part, for a great career emphasis.
Balllerini, 31, glowing in The weekly exclusively for impressive women in the country’s music who have defended it “from the beginning” as they were following The variety of women of women Events in Nashville on Thursday, May 1.
“I think a big reason why things have worked progressively as they are because of women they have, not only have given me advice to spend, but women who have taken the time to stop and return and reach their hand and share their scene with me, and other young artists,” the singer said.
Ballerini also offered a shout for female artists who are sitting to have “real -life conversations” with the cameras.
“It’s been part of my journey and started with Taylor,” Ballerini recalled. “When she tweets about ‘love me like you to say,’ before she went to the Top 40 on the radio, it changed my life.”
Swift, 35, shared a post through X in connection with Single in 2015, after issuing a self-proclaimed Ballerini debut. Both also sang “I love me as you would say” together during Swift’s Tour World 1989 In Nashville the same year.
Also told to dancers we to its flowering friendship with Sania twainwho “just started sharing stages with me”. She called the country’s music legend “a Mentor and a Friend” – especially as the dancer sailed “many different seasons in my life”.
There are moments that she and Twain, 59, shared together that “no one has seen it,” Ballerini added. “These have been really influential to me,” she said.
“I am really grateful that I have mentors and friends and peers who are honored today and some who are ahead of us and some who are still coming,” Ballerini concluded. “It’s a good time to be a girl in Nashville.”
Ballerini received a prize from Variety During Thursday’s event that recognized her philanthropic work and advocacy. The last collaborator Noah Kahan He introduced the dancer during the event, who took the scene with a speech. (Ballerini and Kahan released the song “Cowboys Cry Too” in June 2024.)
“I really think singing ‘Cowboys Cry Too’ is the only reason that the right men who were attracted to my tour from their girlfriends and wives were able to endure my very brilliant, exciting 90-minute show every night. So, I owe you forever,” Ballerini jokes when she started starting her speech. “One of the reasons I am lucky enough to call NOEU a friend is because of our common love for Fieri(but also) Our belief in the value of destroying mental health and helping to relieve conversations, resources and community around it. This is the heart of our song. ”