Biography

Caylee Anna Hammack is an American country singer and songwriter. She is signed to Capitol Records Nashville and released her debut album If It Wasn’t For You on August 14, 2020. 

After about two years of playing and writing songs, she was introduced to Universal Music Publishing Group Nashville by Robert Filhart where she started as a staff writer. During a writers' retreat she found out that her house in Nashville burned down due to an electrical fire that destroyed about 70 percent of her belongings. Tenille Townes was at the retreat with her and helped her during this time which was the start of their friendship. She's signed to Red Light Management and is managed by Mary Hilliard Harrington. In 2018 she could sign a recording contract with Capitol Nashville.

She was featured as an emerging country artist by Billboard and as a new country artist you need to know by Rolling Stone and calls Kacey Musgraves, David Bowie, Tom Waits her influences in her adult life. In 2019 she would open for Lanco, Dierks Bentley, Trisha Yearwood, and Miranda Lambert. Her debut song "Family Tree" was released on January 18, 2019 and was the most-added debut song by a female artist at country radio in the last three years. Later, on May 29 she would perform the song on the Today show in her national television debut. Her upcoming album will make her debut as a producer for which she got help from fellow producer Mikey Reeves.

She was recognized by CMT Listen Up in their 2020 list which was extended into 2021 in August. Caylee wrote "Small Town Hypocrite" while still being a staff writer together with Jared Scott about the breakup with her boyfriend that cheated on her and which eventually brought her to Nashville. Later she found out that he lived in a double-wide trailer, which made its way into the song's final verse. The song was officially released on February 21, 2020. She was scheduled to open for Reba McEntire and Luke Bryan in 2020 but the COVID-19 pandemic cut her Europe tour short and the opening acts for Reba were postponed which left the musician and her band with no income. During this time they started to offer a landscaping service to make up for the lost income. Caylee learned about her first-ever ACM nomination for New Female Artist of the Year for the 2020 ACM Awards while waiting for her plane at the airport. She hosted a Facebook event together with Ashley McBryde called CMT Next Women of Country Goes Live on April 7, 2020 and appeared on Country Outdoors LIVE special from Outdoor Channel on May 8. She announced on June 24 that her debut album If It Wasn’t For You will be released later in August and will contain 13 songs. She co-wrote 12 of them and wrote on by herself. The album features duets with Reba McEntire, Ashley McBryde, and Tenille Townes. On August 13 a new version of "On the Road Again" with Willie Nelson, Caylee, and 9 other ACM nominees was published as "On the Road Again (ACM Lifting Lives Edition)". Proceeds from downloads will benefit a COVID-19 Fund from ACM.

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