Mary Sarah

Country singer, songwriter, and guitarist Mary Sarah entered the world as Mary Sarah Gross on July 7, 1995, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. From childhood onward she embraced singing, dancing, and live performance, and by age eight she was already appearing in churches, on radio broadcasts, and at regional Opry venues. In 2007, at twelve, she joined the touring production of Kidz Bop as a featured singer and dancer, afterward circling back through the Oklahoma and Texas Opry circuit and refining a country-pop approach that stayed rooted in tradition yet felt newly vibrant.

Her first release arrived in 2014 with the duets project Bridges: Great American Country Duets. On that album Sarah traded vocals on signature songs with Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard, Tanya Tucker, Willie Nelson, Ray Price, Lynn Anderson, Vince Gill, and additional legends, crafting what amounted to her own homage to contemporary country music.

February 2016 brought her audition for season ten of the television contest The Voice. Performing Connie Francis’ “Where the Boys Are,” she earned turns from every coach—Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, and Pharrell Williams. The studio cut of that number reached both the Billboard Country Digital Songs and Hot Country Songs charts, as did her later interpretations of Randy Travis’ “I Told You So” and the then-current Maren Morris single “My Church,” before her run ended in the semifinals in mid-May. Fourteen days afterward she stepped onto the stage of the Grand Ole Opry for the first time.