Gretchen Wilson
Gretchen Wilson
Gretchen Frances Wilsonis an American country music artist. She made her debut in 2004 with the Grammy Award-winning single "Redneck Woman," a number-one hit on the Billboard country charts. The song served as the lead-off single of her debut album, Here for the Party. Wilson followed this album one year later with All Jacked Up, the title track of which became the highest-debuting single for a female country artist upon its 2005 release. A third album, One of the Boys,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth26 June 1973
CityPocohaunts, IL
CountryUnited States of America
They're the kind of people who were honest. They'd listen and tell me what they thought - the kind of honesty you need when you're trying to perfect your craft.
Some have a note in their bag. Some put spoons in their hair and money in their underwear, ... Oh yes, our dolls can be very silly.
If I stop and think about it, it just blows my mind. It's my stage. No restrictions. It's my party, and I am having the best time.
I don't want to be ignorant in my daughter's eyes.
Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah.
Cause I'm a redneck woman.
It became apparent to me really fast that I wasn't going to be able to make a living and pay my bills playing on Broadway.
I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.
All my life, I just felt that I should have finished my education.
I got to where I couldn't listen to country radio. Country music is supposed to have steel and fiddle. When I hear country music, it should be country.
My daughter is a redneck woman, she's a redneck girl.
Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.
People ask me where I go to get away and I say, 'home'
What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.