Hailey Whitters

Country singer-songwriter Hailey Whitters decided she wanted to be a professional musician while watching a show at the Grand Ole Opry during a high school field trip. ∙ She has written songs for Martina McBride (“Low All Afternoon”), Alan Jackson (“The Older I Get”), and Little Big Town (“Happy People”). ∙ The video for her 2019 single “Ten Year Town” features cameo appearances by Nashville luminaries Lori McKenna, Brandy Clark, and Carly Pearce. ∙ When Maren Morris first arrived in Nashville in the early 2010s, she and Whitters wrote original songs together, and Morris later invited her to open her Girl: The World Tour. ∙ In 2020, Nashville’s Association of Independent Music Publishers named her Rising Artist-Writer of the Year.