Ashley Monroe
| Ashley Monroe | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Ashley Lauren Monroe |
| Born | September 10, 1986 |
| Origin | Knoxville, Tennessee |
| Genres | Alternative Country, Americana |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Labels | Columbia Nashville Warner Brothers Nashville |
| Associated acts | Trent Dabbs, Miranda Lambert, Jack White's Third Man House Band, Wanda Jackson, Pistol Annies, Train, Blake Shelton, Vince Gill, Hunter Hayes, Butch Walker |
| Website | www |
Ashley Lauren Monroe is an American country music singer-songwriter. She has released two solo singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The singles "Satisfied" and "I Don't Want To" (which featured Brooks & Dunn singer Ronnie Dunn) reached No. 43 and No. 37, respectively. Both singles were intended to be released on Monroe's debut album, Satisfied, in 2007, but the album went unreleased. Soon after, Monroe left Columbia Records' roster in late 2007, and Satisfied was finally released on May 19, 2009. In June 2011, Monroe, Miranda Lambert and Angaleena Presley formed a band called Pistol Annies. Monroe's second studio album, Like a Rose, was released on March 5, 2013 followed by her third album The Blade, released on July 24, 2015.
Ashley Lauren Monroe was born on September 10, 1986 in Knoxville, Tennessee. At age 11, she won a talent contest in Pigeon Forge where she sang "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart", and found steady work at a theater there. Her parents played songs by the Eagles and Lynyrd Skynyrd. After her father died from cancer when she was 13, Monroe started to write songs to help her deal with the loss. A few years later she began to perform in small clubs in Nashville.
After a year in Nashville, she gained a publishing deal as a songwriter, which then led to her signing to a record contract with Sony Records under John Grady, where she began to record her debut album, Satisfied. In 2006, the title track to the album was released as the first single to country radio. It failed to make the top 40 on the Hot Country Songs chart, however, a second single was released shortly after. "I Don't Want To" was released as the second single, which featured Ronnie Dunn of Brooks & Dunn. It initially did well on the charts, charting at No. 37.
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