If you don't already love this Seattle-based singer-songwriter, you're about to fall head over heels.

The Grammy-winning artist on moving past rejection and self-sabotage to the bird’s-eye view that allowed her to write her confessional new album: “At least once in an artist’s career they really have to fully lay it out there.”

"It’s the story of what makes us more than a band. And we want it to be everybody else’s story." More

In an essay for Parents magazine, Brandi Carlile opens up about life with her wife Catherine Shepherd and their daughters Elijah, 2, and Evangeline, 6

The Grammy favorite and Joni Mitchell whisperer continues to advocate for artists who have historically been marginalized in country music.

Photos from CMA Awards 2019: Red Carpet Fashion

Following a late-career Grammy breakthrough and a best-selling memoir, Brandi Carlile returns with an ambitious new album, "In These Silent Days."

Universal Music Publishing Group has signed Brandi Carlile, and Tim and Phil Hanseroth to an [...]

With a 15-year-long career, there's a lot of music by Brandi Carlile to explore. We recommend you start here.

Longtime friends Brandi Carlile and Margo Price won devoted fans with their raw songwriting and unapologetically activist voices. The Grammys have finally taken notice, and Price guesses why: “People are yearning for honest music.”

Brandi Carlile and her wife Catherine duet on a new version of 'You and Me on the Rock' from a deluxe edition of 'In These Silent Days.'

At home with Brandi Carlile, who talks breakout album, all-star Highwomen project and searching for empathy.

Brandi Carlile is painting the picture of what queer parenting looks like one day at a time.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The critically acclaimed singer-songwriter, producer, and six-time Grammy winner opens up about faith, sexuality, parenthood, and a life shaped by music in “one of the great memoirs of our time” (Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed). NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND AUTOSTRADDLE • “The best-written, most engaging rock autobiography since her childhood hero, Elton John, published Me.”—Variety Brandi Carlile was born into a musically gifted, impoverished family on the outskirts of Seattle and grew up in a constant state of change, moving from house to house, trailer to trailer, fourteen times in as many years. Though imperfect in every way, her dysfunctional childhood was as beautiful as it was strange, and as nurturing as it was difficult. At the age of five, Brandi contracted bacterial meningitis, which almost took her life, leaving an indelible mark on her formative years and altering her journey into young adulthood. As an openly gay teenager, Brandi grappled with the tension between her sexuality and her faith when her pastor publicly refused to baptize her on the day of the ceremony. Shockingly, her small town rallied around Brandi in support and set her on a path to salvation where the rest of the misfits and rejects find it: through twisted, joyful, weird, and wonderful music. In Broken Horses, Brandi Carlile takes readers through the events of her life that shaped her very raw art—from her start at a local singing competition where she performed Elton John’s “Honky Cat” in a bedazzled white polyester suit, to her first break opening for Dave Matthews Band, to many sleepless tours over fifteen years and six studio albums, all while raising two children with her wife, Catherine Shepherd. This hard-won success led her to collaborations with personal heroes like Elton John, Dolly Parton, Mavis Staples, Pearl Jam, Tanya Tucker, and Joni Mitchell, as well as her peers in the supergroup The Highwomen, and ultimately to the Grammy stage, where she converted millions of viewers into instant fans. Evocative and piercingly honest, Broken Horses is at once an examination of faith through the eyes of a person rejected by the church’s basic tenets and a meditation on the moments and lyrics that have shaped the life of a creative mind, a brilliant artist, and a genuine empath on a mission to give back.

Read a list of Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile's favorite books, including the Bible and interviews with Dolly Parton.

Church fundraiser had lots of beer, along with some lesser-known bands.

Photos from Brandi Carlile's 2022 Billboard cover shoot for the 2022 Pride issue.