| First song she performed in public was Holly Dunn's "Daddy's Hands." |
| Came in third in the 2003 season of USA's Nashville Star. |
| Said that seeing country star Garth Brooks in concert when she was 10 inspired her to try singing. |
| Claims that her private investigator parents took her on a stakeout when she was just 3. |
| Starred as Annie Oakley in her high school's production of Annie Get Your Gun. |
| At 17, she formed her a band Texas Pride and began playing in the Dallas area. |
| Wrote her first song the same day her father taught her some guitar chords. |