Aubrey Peeples plays singer Layla Grant on the ABC drama Nashville, but she’s also a musician in her real life, although her music tends to lean more toward Blues than country. Aubrey explains, “I’ve been vocally classically trained for 11 years and grew up a theater rat, doing lots of musical theater, so I’ve always been like sort of garnering my voice and everything and really focusing on that.”
Audrey is a fan of so many different genres and styles of music that it took her a while to figure out what kind of music she wanted to perform, but she says, “Eventually I found out that I…it kind of like just all of a sudden fit into place, it was like, ‘Oh, Blues! That’s what I need to be doing.’”
New episodes of NASHVILLE return to ABC on Wednesday, March 16th.
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Nashville – Aubrey Peeples music career :38
“Well, I’m a Blues musician. Yeah, I’ve been vocally classically trained for 11 years and grew up a theater rat, doing lots of musical theater, so I’ve always been like sort of garnering my voice and everything and really focusing on that. And then, as I grew up, growing up in school, I slowly started kind of putting together what musical influences I wanted to directly relate to my music, but it took me a long time to figure out what kind of music I want to do, because I love so many different genres of music. Eventually I found out that I…it kind of like just all of a sudden fit into place, it was like, ‘Oh, Blues! That’s what I need to be doing.’”
AUBREY PEEPLES – THE FACTS
BIRTH DATE: November 27, 1993. (She’s 21)
HOMETOWN: Lake Mary, Florida
ABC’s NASHVILLE CHARACTER: She plays Layla Grant.
ACTING CREDITS INCLUDE: She guest-starred in Drop Dead Diva, Burn Notice, Austin & Ally, Grey’s Anatomy, and had a recurring role on Necessary Roughness. Peeples will star in a leading role in the upcoming musical fantasy comedy-drama film, Jem and the Holograms.
RECENT TWEETS:
Aubrey Peeples @aubreypeeples Sunday, September 27
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Aubrey Peeples @aubreypeeples September 25
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Aubrey Peeples @aubreypeeples September 24
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