For as long as she can remember, Carly Pearce has wanted to be a country music singer, and perhaps the biggest goal in her career is to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry. Carly started performing at the Opry before she even had a record deal, and she says, “I look at my heroes as Dolly, Reba, Faith, Trisha, all of them being members of the Opry and all of them being key parts of our community. And to me, the highest honor you can have within our community and within our genre is to be asked to be a member.”
Based on the success Carly has been experiencing in country music, and her dedication to the Opry, having played over 50 shows already, and going back every time she gets a chance, there is no doubt that she will one day be invited to become a member of the Opry, and she says, “That is really hard for me to comprehend and really hard for me to even think is a possibility [because] I do feel like I’m one of the little girls of the Opry [and] I hope that 50 years down the road I’m one of the faces of the Opry. I want to be on one of those buses the way Carrie [Underwood] is or Dolly is where it says ‘Grand Ole Opry’ and you associate them with it. That’s how I want to be and that’s how I want the Opry to be attached to me.”
Carly will be performing on the Grand Ole Opry this Tuesday night, along with her fiancée, Michael Ray, and she’ll likely be performing her latest hit, “Closer to You,” and another song, possibly one with Michael.
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“I look at my heroes as Dolly, Reba, Faith, Trisha, all of them being members of the Opry and all of them being key parts of our community. And to me, the highest honor you can have within our community and within our genre is to be asked to be a member. And that is really hard for me to comprehend and really hard for me to even think is a possibility. And to even think that I’ve played the Opry and that they’ve allowed me to play over 50 times and that I do feel like I’m one of the little girls of the Opry in a way is really amazing. I hope that 50 years down the road I’m one of the faces of the Opry. I want to be on one of those buses the way Carrie is or Dolly is where it says Grand Ole Opry and you associate them with it. That’s how I want to be and that’s how I want the Opry to be attached to me.”