Lainey Wilson is an American country music singer-songwriter. Wilson performed from an early age, before going to Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a career as a country performer. She was born on May 19, 1992.
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Wilson finished high school and moved to Nashville, Tennessee in August 2011. She first lived in a camper trailer outside of a recording studio in Nashville. The studio owner paid for Wilson’s water and electricity to help make ends meet. In 2014, she released her first album, followed by a second on the Lone Chief label in 2016.
Wilson secured a publishing deal and later released an extended play (EP) in 2019, which included the song “Things a Man Oughta Know”. In 2020, it was issued as a single through the BBR Music Group and eventually reached number one on the American country songs chart.
How did Lainey Wilson get famous?
While still in school, Wilson took a job impersonating Hannah Montana, the Disney character made famous by Miley Cyrus.
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The country star performed as Hannah Montana at birthday parties, county fairs, and festivals across Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas. “I impersonated Hannah Montana for 5 years,” the singer said of her past career.
Wilson even used her gigs as ‘Hannah’ to push her own music career: “Every now and then Lainey Wilson might open the show for Hannah Montana. Sometimes they’d be like ‘Who’s Lainey?’ and ‘Nah, we just asked for Hannah.’”
So, does Cyrus know that Wilson used her famous character to get a jump start on her music career? Not yet, but the country star is ready to meet her.
“It’s gonna be crazy when I meet Miley and be like ‘Hey, by the way, I just want to thank you because girl, I was making some bank in high school!’” Wilson said while appearing on Taste of Country. “I was doing three or four parties a weekend,” the singer said of her previous gig.
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