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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Gabby Barrett Foehner is an American country music singer. She finished third on the 16th season of American Idol. Her debut single "I Hope" was the first top 10 Hot Country Songs debut by an unaccompanied woman since October 2017. It became a top three hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and has been certified 6× Platinum by the RIAA. Her debut album Goldmine was released on in June 2020. Country Now called Barrett "country music's next female superstar".
There are other artists out there, in which some like to write and others like to perform and others like to talk, but I really just love to perform and entertain.
I really respected women that could sing their tails off and entertain really well, so I wanted to get that across before I brought any of my own music into it.
Nobody has done Mariah Carey whistle-tone notes in country music that I've heard of, and if you're capable of doing it, you might as well add it in.
For marriage, yes, people always had their opinions of, 'Oh, you're too young,' because it's become a stereotype, for some reason, for people to get married later in their 20s.
I always wanted a girl growing up, as well as a boy, so to have a girl first is just really exciting.
I'm not the kind of person who walks in a room and is just like, 'Hi everybody!' I'm more somebody who is quiet and who isn't good at starting conversations.
Just stick to what you feel you sing best at, no matter what it is.
I'm always looking to find things that are different in country music.
Being a female, I know what it's like to go through a bad break up and not get to say what you really want to.
I am very close with the whole cast; the Top 5 of us from 'Idol' are still super close, especially Cade and me. Wink wink.
Oh my God, Luke Bryan is so handsome in person.
I think you get a lot of influence from what your parents play around you. So I always loved country, R&B and rock.
Music is just something I find very fun, the way other people find going to the mall is fun - which I do, too, trust me. I love shopping.
I value the Lord more than I value my career, because at the end of the day, when we die, we face him. We're going to wish that we did more on this earth for him. And so I want to make sure that I'm doing everything to glorify him.
I am so unbelievably excited to share 'I Hope' with the world. After my 'Idol' chapter closed, I knew this song was the one I wanted to frame myself with.
I think 'American Idol' has prepared me for anything.
Labels and people didn't know if i could write original music or anything.
The judges have been so supportive and amazing even after 'Idol.'
Country is and always will be my heart, but I don't have a problem with it spilling over into pop if it wants to.
There's a happy medium to everything, even with powerhouse singers. You don't have to belt it out all the time. You don't have to overuse something.
I was doing my own shows when I was 11 years old.
I love Marty Robbins, I love Glen Campbell, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline.
Full live performances are always my favorites, and I think a lot of people's favorites too, just because you can feel the energy off the crowd and there's so much more interaction, and just everything overall is just like very hype.
From 11 to 17, I just toured my butt off with my dad and my sister. We hit the road and I was singing all kinds of different songs and different types of genres. But I knew from an early age what I wanted my sound to be, which was country on bass, and I wanted to be a country artist.
I think acoustic performances and full, live performances are always cool in different ways.
Of course, growing up, you listen to your favorite people on the radio and you want to have an album of your own and you want to have number one songs that people know and can sing back to you when you have shows.
I feel like I am a true entertainer and performer.
It was actually really hard to get a record deal after 'American Idol.'
My dad is my rock. Every single penny he earns goes into my dream.
All of the genres are just blending now, which I think is another super-cool thing.
Be in Nashville if you want to be in country music, because everybody that can help you is here.
I was a terrible writer at first.
That's how I want to be with stuff: I always want to be in country music, first and foremost, forever.
I wanted to put in the time and the work, because eventually it pays off in a good way.
Actually, zero labels were jumping toward me, and I couldn't get to anybody. Nobody was paying any attention. And I was like, 'OK, I'm going to put my nose to the ground and really work on writing and creating some good songs that people could gravitate to.'
Everyone's love story is going to be unique.
When people ask me about Cade, how he's doing or how we're doing, I always end up saying, 'Oh he's great, he's a keeper, he's a good one.'
I'm so grateful to the Lord.
Country radio has been extremely good to me, which I am extremely grateful for and and means a bunch. But there is room for many other people.
I've always loved R&B. That love seemed to start in church. But then I saw Carrie Underwood on American Idol, and I fell in love with country. Heck, I loved the hair bands of the '80s too, so I have always loved country and rock 'n' roll.
We just love spending time with family.
My dad was into classic rock and R&B, which I originally started in. And then my mom did the country.
I'm very fortunate that R&B was where I first kind of learned my root in singing. I was able to do more with my voice and find it at an early age and then transform that into country as well.
A few people have asked me about the women agenda on country radio. I can only speak for myself on this, and all I have to say is that I'm very grateful, and thankful, that country radio has been so automatically accepting, and supportive, of me and my music.
I'm getting to put my music out into the world the way that I envisioned and hoped it would be when I was little, and that is a total dream come true.
I always try to write from a genuine standpoint.
Things that are like overnight success things don't last long, and that's not something I wanted.
Pinterest is awesome. You can get so many wonderful ideas.
I was raised listening to so many wonderful females with great music.
I wasn't born with nerves. You have to take yourself out of the equation and think about everyone else - you're the entertainer.
I love romance and talking about love, and I think it's one of the greatest things you can talk about.
I can sing as low as Toni Braxton and as high as Mariah Carey.
I try everyday to give it my 110%.
If you're going to compare me to somebody and it's going to be Carrie Underwood, I will absolutely take that as a compliment.
I think being married and in love and all of that changed how I write songs and what I want to sing about and the type of songs that I like.
To be given a chance to be in the finals was a dream come true, and I will forever be thankful to the whole 'American Idol' crew.
I've always tried from a very young age to be positive.
I hold the Lord so high in my life, to really being number one before anything else.
Not every single person is bad, not all guys are bad, and I found my good one.
Something a lot of people don't know about me is I sucked my thumb until I was in like eighth grade. It's cause, when I was a baby, I sucked my thumb and I guess my mom and dad never weaned me off of that, because they thought it was cute. And then it's like an addiction. That's your security blanket.