For Mickey Guyton, fighting for racial diversity in country music has become a passionate refrain in her career, not just a one-act show.
During a conversation on Oprah Daily’s Future Rising, a new interview series highlighting Black achievement, Guyton opened up about the resistance she’s encountered as a Black artist in the country music scene. The 38-year-old singer reflected on a tense meeting she had with a skeptical record label executive early in her career.
“Sitting there, I could tell one of the label heads was questioning me and my authenticity and grilling me on country music and if I knew it or not,” Guyton recalled. “I truly listened to country music growing up. I grew up in the South on gravel dirt roads — shouldn’t that be enough?”
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