{"id":11565,"date":"2017-03-12T01:50:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T01:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/maren-morris-from-grammy-camp-to-grammy-winner\/"},"modified":"2017-03-12T01:50:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T01:50:44","slug":"maren-morris-from-grammy-camp-to-grammy-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/maren-morris-from-grammy-camp-to-grammy-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Maren Morris: From Grammy Camp to Grammy winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maren Morris\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/10780\/production\/_95065476_4cd6c03b-75a9-44be-8d26-9f1d7b491662.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  LeAnn Mueller<figcaption>Image caption                                      Maren Morris: &quot;The last 12 months feels like 10 years&quot;                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">This time last year, Maren Morris was a relative unknown, playing a side stage at London&#039;s Country 2 Country festival. Then something unexpected happened.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;My single My Church hadn&#039;t been out for very long,&quot; she recalls. &quot;But the crowd already knew all the words.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That was the first documented &#039;wow&#039; moment for me, hearing that whole crowd sing it back to me.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward 12 months and Morris is one of country music&#039;s biggest new stars.<\/p>\n<p>She was named best new artist at the Country Music Awards, won best country song at the Grammys, played on Saturday Night Live and staged her first ever tour.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Everything took off a little bit faster than we had imagined,&quot; she marvels. &quot;It&#039;s been turbo-speed.&quot;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10 singers who&#039;ll make you fall in love with country<\/li>\n<li>BBC Radio 2 Country<\/li>\n<li>Grammy Awards 2017: As it happened<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This weekend, the 26-year-old returns to Country 2 Country - this time on the main stage. As she warms up for the show, she tells the BBC about the last 12, dizzying months; having a day named in her honour; and how she was trained for success at something called &quot;Grammy Camp&quot;.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  AP<figcaption>Image caption                                      Maren recorded her first album at the age of 14                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>As a teenager, you failed auditions for The Voice and American Idol - but now contestants are singing your songs on those shows. Do you feel vindicated?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, it&#039;s very gratifying! It means someone loves my song enough to work it up for their audition. That&#039;s very cool. <\/p>\n<p>But I&#039;m honestly so thankful  that I didn&#039;t make it onto any of those shows. There&#039;s just so many of them now. I think The Voice is on season 40 already.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And now you have a Grammy! What do you remember of that night?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oh, it&#039;s still weird. I&#039;m still reeling. It just felt like such a triumph because it was my first try - my first album on a major label. <\/p>\n<p>No-one can describe it, your first Grammy. It&#039;s something you practice in the mirror when you&#039;re seven years old but when you get to that day, there&#039;s so many emotions, so many people around you. It&#039;s hard to articulate but it&#039;s just the most amazing feeling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You won for My Church, which is about music being a sanctuary.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#039;ve always been inspired by music and healed by it. It seemed natural to write a song about my love for it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you remember the moment you came up with it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah - I was at a weird emotional crossroads. I&#039;d had a little luck in the songwriting world [Morris wrote songs for Kelly Clarkson and Tim McGraw] but I wasn&#039;t getting my songs on the radio, so I went on this writing trip to LA and wrote my heart out. <\/p>\n<p>Then I was driving around one day, and I remember being really struck by seeing the ocean. A song came on the radio - and I don&#039;t remember which one - but I thought to myself, &quot;this really is a church to me&quot;. It&#039;s amazing how a song, even just a couple of seconds of a song, can change your mood. So I wrote the title down, My Church, and brought it to my co-writer Busbee the next day. <\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  AP<figcaption>Image caption                                      &quot;The Grammys were the most magical night&quot;                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>What&#039;s it like the first time you hear your own song on the radio?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s monumental! You&#039;re just driving around and it randomly comes on. You can&#039;t prepare for it, and I certainly wasn&#039;t ready.<\/p>\n<p>I was driving around Nashville and it was snowing, then I heard the first few chords and had to pull over, because I was so overcome with emotion. It&#039;s kind of ironic that I had to pull over when the song is about driving and listening to music! <\/p>\n<p><strong>You once attended Grammy Camp. What was that? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was 2005 and the Grammy Foundation flew high school kids from across the country to LA for a week for all these seminars. It was really cool - we got to work with top writers and listen to people like Jimmy Jam [producer for Janet and Michael Jackson] and David Foster [Madonna, Michael Buble] talk about their career.<\/p>\n<p>It was just like Disney World for a music freak.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So will you go back to give your own masterclass now that you&#039;re a fully-fledged Grammy winner?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Any time they ask, I&#039;ll be up for it because it left such a big impression on me. For the first time, I was surrounded by kids my age that were interested in the same things I was.   <\/p>\n<p>That&#039;s why I&#039;m so passionate about music education, especially in public schools. <\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think about the likely cuts to arts education in the US?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s very sad. I went to a pretty run-down high school and there was no funding for arts - so now I give all the proceeds from the &quot;meet and greet&quot; tickets on my tour to my high school fine arts programme. My job now is just to give back to things I&#039;m interested in, and that&#039;s a big one.<\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Columbia Nashville<figcaption>Image caption                                      The singer is in the UK for the annual C2C music festival                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Your album paints a vivid picture of a woman in her early 20s, with all the good and bad things that entails. Who are your inspirations, lyrically-speaking?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I look up to a lot of female songwriters. I love Dolly Parton, I love Patty Griffin and I&#039;ve always loved Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash and Elton John. <\/p>\n<p>They&#039;re all storytellers. That&#039;s why I grew up loving country. It&#039;s all so honest and story-based and the lyrics are poetic, but they&#039;re structured so well. It&#039;s really airtight writing but I love it in a soulful way, too, because it&#039;s such a truth-telling genre.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaking of truth-telling, Drunk Girls Don&#039;t Cry is a song where you tell a friend to dump her lover. Did she take your advice?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She did! That one didn&#039;t last very long. I won&#039;t take credit and say it&#039;s because of my song, but I would like to think I sometimes have good advice to give.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did the song mirror a real-life conversation?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not in those exact terms, but I remember having a glass of wine with my friend and hearing her go on and on about the guy for the thousandth time. I was like, &quot;Come on, you&#039;re way too good for this guy.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>The next day, I was telling my co-writers about the whole thing. I wasn&#039;t aiming for a song, I was just complaining - but Luke Laird just started playing that chord progression and singing the hook. <\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      Morris duetted with Alicia Keys during the Grammy ceremony                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Why did you call your album Hero?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s from a song called I Wish I Was, which I wrote when I went through this very major break-up. I was the breaker in that relationship, so the lyric is &quot;I&#039;m not the hero in this story&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>But a lot of things changed from the day I wrote that song. I got through the break-up, grew up, stopped being so selfish and became more aware of people&#039;s feelings. And I think, in a way, I became the good guy over the course of those years. <\/p>\n<p>So I thought it would be cool to take a word from a song where I&#039;m the villain and say that, over the course of making this album, I sort of became my own hero, in a roundabout way. <\/p>\n<p><strong>I noticed that 27 December was Maren Morris Day in Arlington, Texas. Is that set in stone forever? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I guess?! That was hilarious. It happened at my parents&#039; hair salon - the mayor came and he handed me this plaque. But one of my best friends has her birthday on 27 December. I was like, &quot;Sorry, Skylar, it&#039;s Maren Morris day. Your birthday can wait &#039;til tomorrow.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maybe you could declare the 28th her official birthday, like the Queen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Totally. I can do that. I think I have that power now.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. 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