A young lady from Redwater, Texas has burst onto the national music scene following her stirring rendition of a country music classic on The Voice. While many in Northeast Texas know of her talents, after more than a million views of her performance, the whole world now knows Bowie County’s own Hailey Wright.
Wright’s soulful cover of Freddy Fender’s Before the Next Teardrop Falls earned her chair turns from music superstar judges Michael Buble and Kelsea Ballerini, and the young star chose to go forward on the show on Team Ballerini.
Wright is relatively new to the music industry. She started singing just four years ago after a life-changing softball injury at 16 sparked her musical journey. A bad slide into 2nd base and a broken leg gave her a lot of idle time. It was then that she picked up a pawn shop guitar and taught herself how to play. She found music as a powerful outlet for her emotions. Her first open mic performance was a hit, with the audience recording and sharing it on social media.
