Mountain Home Music Company congratulates Jaelee Roberts, who was named Female Vocalist of the Year at last night’s International Bluegrass Music Association Awards. From her Grand Ole Opry solo debut last fall through this winter’s release of No Fear, the blockbuster album from Sister Sadie that features a half-dozen of her lead vocals, it’s been a busy stretch for Roberts.
“I don’t even have words to say how it feels to win the Female Vocalist of the Year award. I am still in shock,” she says. “Just being nominated is one of the biggest honors of my life and having my name mentioned alongside Dale Ann Bradley, Rhonda Vincent, Molly Tuttle and A.J. Lee is mind-blowing. I love every one of these women so much and I’m very influenced by their music.”
“I am truly so honored, blessed, and shocked to win this award and I’m currently living on Cloud 9! I owe everything to God and I am so thankful for the ability to do what I love and to live my dreams. I’m so grateful to both of my parents for always supporting me through everything and encouraging me to do what I love to do!” Roberts continues. “I thank my ladies in Sister Sadie so much for being my actual sisters that I get to travel with and play music with — we have the absolute best times and I love playing and singing with them. Thank you to Mountain Home for taking a chance on me when I was 19 years old and helping me to get the music out that I love so much. Thank you so much to the IBMA for giving me an opportunity to learn and grow through attending World of Bluegrass for my entire life and thank you to the members that voted for me…this just doesn’t even feel like real life right now! Thank you to everyone who supports my music, to all the DJs who play my music, and everyone who cares about what I do. I can’t even express how much I appreciate it! This award means EVERYTHING to me and I am so honored and thankful.”
Listen to Roberts’ latest song, “Between The Two Of Us,” HERE.
About Jaelee Roberts
Though she’s in her early 20s, Music City native Jaelee Roberts, is already more than a little familiar with — and to — the music industry. Born to veteran music professionals, she grew up backstage at the Grand Ole Opry and in the middle of rehearsals, business meetings and recording sessions, along with plenty of festivals and concerts. Roberts got her start singing in church at a very early age and began her journey as an instrumentalist at age 4 with fiddle lessons; since then, she has added guitar, mandolin and piano to her musical arsenal. Jaelee participated in and won numerous music and dance competitions, but as she began her teen years, she found herself drawn more to performance than competition. Soon, she was attracting attention for her rich voice and interpretative ability, recording not only with her father, the Grascals’ Danny Roberts, but with the Tom T. and Dixie Hall-backed Daughters of Bluegrass. By the time she finished high school, she’d been chosen in two consecutive years as a vocal track participant in the industry-leading GRAMMY Camp. Jaelee was an official Bluegrass Ramble Showcase artist at IBMA’s World of Bluegrass in 2019 as well as being a 2020 IBMA Songwriter Showcase artist. In 2021, Jaelee signed with Mountain Home Music Company, was invited to join the multi-award winning, all-female supergroup Sister Sadie on guitar and vocals and received the IBMA Momentum Vocalist of the Year and IBMA Vocal Group of the Year awards. By 2022, she had released her debut full-length album Something You Didn’t Count On which became an immediate commercial and critical success. The album debuted in the Top Ten on the Billboard Bluegrass Album chart and peaked at #2 on the Bluegrass Unlimited album chart. The album won the 2023 Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America (SPBGMA) Album of the Year award, and Jaelee was also named Female Vocalist of the Year. In September of 2023, Jaelee made her solo debut at the Grand Ole Opry.
