Kelsey Waldon

Waldon was born in Ballard County, Kentucky, and raised in the rural Western Kentucky town Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky. Waldon's family roots in the Bluegrass State date back over ten generations, from tobacco farmers to cattle raisers, and some of her first jobs were in farming and planting tobacco. She picked up the guitar at age 13 to deal with her parents' divorce, and continued to use music as an outlet throughout her teenage years. After high school, instead of pursuing a college degree, Waldon moved to Nashville, Tennessee to see if she could make it in the music industry.