How Maren Morris Became Country’s Breakout Star | Rolling Stone

“Twenty-six-year-old Texan, who got her start at 11, is opening for Keith Urban…

Given that Morris’ breakthrough, ‘My Church,’ is a booming praise song about the redemptive power of the radio (as presided over by Hank Williams and Johnny Cash), you might expect her to be cruising to some classic country. But she’s a woman who doesn’t draw boundaries in the music she makes, or listens to, so right now she’s blasting Ginuwine’s 1996 bump-‘n’-grind classic, ‘Pony.’ ‘I’m doing this Nineties night on Tuesday here in Nashville with a bunch of friends, and I’m singing on that song,’ she says, laughing. ‘I’m going to learn all the harmonies.”

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