Carly Pearce has known since she was a child that she wanted to be a country music singer.  She even talked her parents into letting her drop out of high school so she could move to East Tennessee with her mom to pursue a career at the Dollywood theme park.  Her parents, who are still married, lived separately during that time so her mom could live with her while her dad held down the home front back in Kentucky.  And even after that, Carly says, “When I moved to town they bought a house in Nashville so that I wouldn’t have to get a job immediately and could completely devote to this.  And my mom has spent countless hours driving around and not being near her family and sacrificing all of that just to make this happen for me.”

Besides supporting her emotionally and financially in the beginning of her career pursuits, Carly says her parents were also the ones she could count on to be honest and tell her the truth.  She says, “(They) have been the perfect blend of supporters, but also there for me when I needed to hear that maybe I needed to write better songs or I needed to do this, or on the other side just picking me up when I fall.”

So now that Carly has a #1 song and her latest single, “Hide the Wine,” heading up the charts, she says, “This is as much me making it, as I feel like them having a part in it, of helping me make it.”

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“When I moved to town they bought a house in Nashville so that I wouldn’t have to get a job immediately and could completely devote to this.  And my mom has spent countless hours driving around and not being near her family and sacrificing all of that just to make this happen for me, and have been the perfect blend of supporters, but also there for me when I needed to hear that maybe I needed to write better songs or I needed to do this, or on the other side just picking me up when I fall. And this is as much me making it, as I feel like them having a part in it, of helping me make it.”