Carly Pearce just scored his first #1 song with her debut single, “Every Little Thing,” and although most people may have only heard of Carly in the last year or so, she has been in Nashville for many years, paying her dues and pursuing her dream of country music, and she’s definitely not an overnight sensation.  Carly says, “I think that if people don’t know it initially when they were introduced to me, they’ll figure it out in my songwriting. They’ll figure it out in my live show. They’ll figure it out when they hear anything about me just how long I have dreamt of this.”

Before she landed her record deal, Carly lost another record deal, she paid her rent by working retail at an outlet mall and by cleaning Air B ‘n B’s and she heard the word ‘no’ quite a bit, but she says, “I’ve worked really hard to get here and feel like it is definitely not something that you can just move to town and go, ‘oh I’m going to be a star,’ or ‘oh, I’m gonna get a record deal.’ It’s a very difficult business to break into and you have to be willing to commit your whole life to it. And I think the people that are willing to fight and claw and kick and scream and continue to grow are the ones that stick around and hopefully have a shot. And that’s all I ever wanted. And I think that if you know anything about my story then you know that I’ve really truly devoted my life to country music.”

You can catch Carly out on The Caliville Tour with Brett Young through mid-December.

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“I think that if people don’t know it initially when they were introduced to me, they’ll figure it out in my songwriting. They’ll figure it out in my live show. They’ll figure it out when they hear anything about me just how long I have dreamt of this. And I feel like I’ve worked really hard to get here and feel like it is definitely not something that you can just move to town and go, ‘oh I’m going to be a star,’ or ‘oh, I’m gonna get a record deal.’ It’s a very difficult business to break into and you have to be willing to commit your whole life to it. And I think the people that are willing to fight and claw and kick and scream and continue to grow are the ones that stick around and hopefully have a shot. And that’s all I ever wanted. And I think that if you know anything about my story then you know that I’ve really truly devoted my life to country music.”