Gretchen Wilson
Gretchen Wilson
Gretchen Frances Wilsonis an American country music artist. She made her debut in 2004 with the Grammy Award-winning single "Redneck Woman," a number-one hit on the Billboard country charts. The song served as the lead-off single of her debut album, Here for the Party. Wilson followed this album one year later with All Jacked Up, the title track of which became the highest-debuting single for a female country artist upon its 2005 release. A third album, One of the Boys,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth26 June 1973
CityPocohaunts, IL
CountryUnited States of America
I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.
All my life, I just felt that I should have finished my education.
I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.
My daughter is a redneck woman, she's a redneck girl.
Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.
People ask me where I go to get away and I say, 'home'
What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.
I think music can heal your soul if you'll let it. It can also bring you up if you're down. It can also bring you down if you're too up. It's a mood thing.
Today, if you were to look at my CD collection, it might scare some people.
I'm a mom first, a singer second.
I just like Raisin Bran - it keeps me regular.
Good music is good music.
I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.
I don't know if I'll ever get used to hearing my name being mentioned alongside all these other legendary artists that have come before me.