While Maren Morris has become one of the hottest rising stars in country music with songs like “My Church” and her current single “80’s Mercedes”, it didn’t start out that way. Maren earned her musical stripes in Texas, where there were a lot of challenges. But Maren says that it’s those struggles that makes her success now even sweeter. The major step for her was moving to Nashville, where the experience of working with the writers and musicians of music city gave her confidence in her already sizeable talents a boost. Now she can say she went from the bars of the lonestar state to musical act spot on Saturday Night Live, as she makes her debut on the show this weekend!

  Maren Morris admits the early challenges of her career has made the success she’s having now even sweeter.” (:26)
“Thank God I moved to Nashville, and learned so much. I feel like I got so much under my belt with just the writing rooms, and the writers that I’ve gotten to work with over the past few years I feel like it give me that confidence, and looking back I am so glad that I went through the struggles and the highs and the lows because it make me so much more appreciative of what’s happening now.”