BIO
Gabrielle is currently gearing up for the release of her self-penned debut Album "Moon Song" Gabrielle brings to life the memories of her hometown and those closest to her in this deeply personal Album. With this release, Gabrielle announces to both the world and country music that she’s her own woman with her own influences, and the only one that will write that story is herself.
From a little town on the border of Arkansas and Oklahoma, Gabrielle seemed like any other girl. A middle child, a farmer’s daughter. On Sundays she’d travel with the family band, singing “He Leadeth Me” and, hours later, fall asleep on a church pew. But Gabrielle had a secret. “I’ve always been a rebel,” she says, laughing. Monday through Friday she was smuggling records into the house by My Chemical Romance, Hinder, and Sick Puppies. At 17, she joined a Southern rock band and traveled the dive bars of the Southeast. “Country music would talk about what I knew,” she says, “but the rock would speak to who I was, the emotions and feelings.”
It was two long years of touring and a strained relationship with her parents before she, with younger brother Shay of Dan + Shay, moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, looking for a new start. Days she’d attend a bible college; nights were spent singing at clubs. “It made me tough, and it gave me the love of music,” she says. “It’s fun to tour. It’s fun to be a musician.”
It was at the encouragement of Shay, who himself had recently moved, that Gabrielle considered pursuing music in Nashville. Most importantly, with age came a peace with country music. “When I accepted who I am and where I’m from, then I loved country, because it spoke about everything I grew up on—riding four-wheelers and going to bonfires and being a mile from every neighbor we had,” she says. “When I write country music, it’s just me writing about my life.”
Gabrielle pulled from her early years for the song “90’s Country,” which Monument Records artist Walker Hayes released in August 2018. Written by Hayes, Gabrielle, and Grammy Award-winning producer Shane McAnally, its story hits all the high notes from the country smashes of the decade in which she grew up. “People talk about old country, about Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash, but I grew up on Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, Shania Twain, and Faith Hill,” she says.
With her first single, Come on in, Gabrielle announced to both the world and country music that she’s her own woman with her own influences, and the only one that will write that story is herself. “I define me,” she says. The music video for Come on in premiered on CMT with rave reviews.
Gabrielle had a big year in 2022. Along with long time manager Deb Henson and now signed with Michael Betterton @Wasserman talent agency, she embarked on Headlining a 13-city “Nashville hits the roof’ tour featured at all the Tin Roof venue locations. The tour was a huge success. Gabrielle ended the year shutting down the streets to headline a hometown NYE concert selling out 2,000 tickets the first week on sale.