Mickey Guyton: ‘I’ve Spent My Whole Career In Spaces With People That Don’t Look Like Me’

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By Brande Victorian ·Updated July 26, 2022

Mickey Guyton has broken many barriers in the contemporary country music scene. When she joined Universal Music Group’s Capitol Records Nashville division in 2011, she became the first Black woman country music singer to sign to a major label. And in 2020, she became the first Black woman to perform at the Academy of Country Music Awards and the first Black woman to be nominated for

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