Candi Carpenter

“If her future is as bright as her talent, this is going to be a very big star.” – Phil Everly of The Everly Brothers (Rock & Roll and Country Music Hall of Fame)

“Candi Carpenter sounds like a star, looks like a star, writes like a star. Seems to me she is a star.” – Bill Medley of The Righteous Brothers. (Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)

Candi Carpenter left school to begin her professional career in music at the early age of fifteen, moving from her home town of Lansing, Michigan to Nashville, Tennessee where the stages of bars and honky tonk dives became her classroom. After living in a motel and paying her dues, she graduated to working shows with legends including Loretta Lynn, Vince Gill, Porter Wagoner, Michael W. Smith, Little Jimmy Dickens, Jim Glaser, Bill Anderson and many others. She learned to play guitar and harmonica, and yodel with the best of them. She’s been touring nationally for the past several years, and can also be seen regularly at well known songwriter venues like the Bluebird Café in Nashville, TN and Kulak’s Woodshed in Hollywood, CA.

No stranger to the small screen, Candi’s new music video for “My Fault Too” is currently in heavy rotation on The Country Network. The song’s powerful message inspire new fans to write her every day to share the impact the lyrics have had on their life. She’s been interviewed by Ralph Emery, and has appeared in Country Weekly Magazine. You may have heard her on 650 WSM being interviewed on Opry Backstage, The Bill Cody Morning Show, or the famed Midnight Jamboree. Look for her in music videos including Alan Jackson’s “Too Much of a Good Thing,” and playing guitar for Brooks & Dunn in their video for “Put a Girl In It.”

As a songwriter, Candi is working with some of the top names in the music industry. She has recently co-written songs with Grammy award winning and nominated writers such as Bill Anderson, Bill Labounty, Bobby Tomberlin, Mickey Raphael and Phil Everly of The Everly Brothers. As her list of accomplishments grow, so does the enthusiastic interest from some of Nashville’s top music industry professionals. She is “Real, raw, captivating. Like nothing else out there!” Fans flock to her shows because she is honest and compelling. There is no doubt that big things are in store for Candi Carpenter in 2013.

“Candi happens to be one of my favorite people in country music. She has it all.”
– Little Jimmy Dickens (Country Music Hall of Fame)