
Brandi Carlile
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A songwriter whose yearning, probing spirit is matched by her powerful, soaring voice, Brandi Carlile made a splash with her eponymous debut album in 2005, yet when she received six Grammy nominations for her 2018 album, By the Way, I Forgive You, the mainstream acclaim was so sudden it almost seemed that it arrived overnight. Between those two albums, Carlile had her share of success — the haunted, churning "The Story" won her a gold certification for the album of the same name — but she worked steadily and reliably, building up a cult audience and industry connections that all crested with, By the Way, I Forgive You, which wound up taking home half of the Grammys it was nominated for. Her visibility elevated, Carlile capitalized on her stardom by joining with Amanda Shires, Maren Morris, and Natalie Hemby in the country supergroup the Highwomen, whose 2019 debut helped underscore Carlile’s stardom and artistic depth. Carlile returned to her solo career in 2021 with In These Silent Days, which yielded the 2022 companion set In the Canyon Haze.