Kaylee Rutland performed on this year's Dallas Music Festival. She is an 18 year old singer/songwriter working in the contemporary country genre. Music has been an enormous part of her life since she was a child and being musical performer has always been something she's wanted to do. Kaylee focuses all of her songs around material that is close to her heart, such as her faith, her family, as well as her friends, and she states that most of her influence is from other country singers like Carrie Underwood, Reba McEntire, and Sarah Evans.
"If I hear someone say something that I think would work great in a song, I'll take that knowledge with me and work with it to write my lyrics," she says. When Kaylee is writing songs, she says she is hard on herself because she wants the lyrics and music to sound as good as they can. Once Kaylee has the basic lyrics down for a song, she takes what she wrote and her and her band meet up, jam through it, and bounce ideas off of each other.
It has been about a year since her first EP was released; she is just about done recording her second EP and plans on releasing it sometime very soon. Kaylee just finished recording a song and music video with country stars, Jamie O'Neal and Colt Ford. "It was a real blessing to record with such nice and down to earth people like Jamie and Colt," said Rutland. When Kaylee was just starting out in music, she says her biggest challenge was getting on stage and being comfortable instead of feeling awkward. Other than that Kaylee says rarely has any trouble with her band, pointing out that they get along really well.
Kaylee tells us that her favorite show she's every played was a two-hour show right before a Stars game, known as the Pregame Party on the Plaza (the Stars are Dallas's NHL hockey team). She has been lucky enough to play this event two times. "I loved every minute of it, even though it was freezing cold!" she said. Kaylee says that if she could open up for any band or artist in the world, she would want to open up for Reba McEntire - her idol.
"Whenever you're an up and coming artist," Kaylee says, "you will always have those people that will want to bring you down and want to tell you that your music isn't good enough. Don't listen to them, because they are just out to put you down." Kaylee also went on to say how important it is to listen to those who love you and believe in you and not anyone else. Her biggest advice to other up and coming artist around the world is that they should always believe in themselves, because if they do, they will succeed.
"If I hear someone say something that I think would work great in a song, I'll take that knowledge with me and work with it to write my lyrics," she says. When Kaylee is writing songs, she says she is hard on herself because she wants the lyrics and music to sound as good as they can. Once Kaylee has the basic lyrics down for a song, she takes what she wrote and her and her band meet up, jam through it, and bounce ideas off of each other.
It has been about a year since her first EP was released; she is just about done recording her second EP and plans on releasing it sometime very soon. Kaylee just finished recording a song and music video with country stars, Jamie O'Neal and Colt Ford. "It was a real blessing to record with such nice and down to earth people like Jamie and Colt," said Rutland. When Kaylee was just starting out in music, she says her biggest challenge was getting on stage and being comfortable instead of feeling awkward. Other than that Kaylee says rarely has any trouble with her band, pointing out that they get along really well.
Kaylee tells us that her favorite show she's every played was a two-hour show right before a Stars game, known as the Pregame Party on the Plaza (the Stars are Dallas's NHL hockey team). She has been lucky enough to play this event two times. "I loved every minute of it, even though it was freezing cold!" she said. Kaylee says that if she could open up for any band or artist in the world, she would want to open up for Reba McEntire - her idol.
"Whenever you're an up and coming artist," Kaylee says, "you will always have those people that will want to bring you down and want to tell you that your music isn't good enough. Don't listen to them, because they are just out to put you down." Kaylee also went on to say how important it is to listen to those who love you and believe in you and not anyone else. Her biggest advice to other up and coming artist around the world is that they should always believe in themselves, because if they do, they will succeed.
About the Author:
Kaylee Rutland will be performing at this year's Dallas Music Festival, presented by EagleOne Entertainment and Gorilla Music. For more information on the Dallas Music Festival, check out the Gorilla Music website.
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