Own music history with the signed handwritten lyrics to Mickey Guyton's record breaking debut single “Better Than You Left Me". There are only 5 handwrittien copies and this single was inspired by a breakup with a former boyfriend who "came running back to" her after she got the opportunity to sing for the President of the United States. In the song, the female narrator encounters a former significant lover, and tells him that she is "better than you left me".
Mickey Guyton was born in Arlington, Texas and moved around the Lone Star state as a child due to her father’s job but found music to be a constant in her nomadic life. After signing to Capitol Records Nashville, Mickey’s first appearance was an all-star concert at the White House captured by PBS. In 2015 she released her self-titled EP featuring “Better Than You Left Me,” that made Country Aircheck history as the single highest one-week add total for a debut first single. The following year, Mickey was nominated for her first Academy of Country Music Award for New Female Vocalist.
Mickey released her EP, Bridges, on September 11, which includes “What Are You Gonna Tell Her?”, hailed by Variety as “country music’s song of the year”, as well as, “Black Like Me,” a song Mickey co-wrote in March 2019 at a cross-genre writing camp. Due to demand, “Black Like Me” was released in June and was recently named one of NPR’s Top 5 songs of 2020. “Black Like Me” just received a GRAMMY nomination for Best Country Solo Performance marking a historic moment for Mickey as the first solo Black female artist to receive a GRAMMY nomination in a country category.
This year, Guyton also became the first Black woman to perform solo at the ACM Awards. Mickey and her music have been featured recently by The New York Times, CBS This Morning, NPR, Today, Billboard, The Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, ELLE, The Washington Post, Paste, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, American Songwriter, Billboard magazine as one of Country music’s “female game changers”; and, Entertainment Weekly as one of the “new queens of country music.”
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