Latest Release
- OCT 25, 2024
- 1 Song
- GIRL · 2019
- The Middle - Single · 2018
- Chasing After You - Single · 2021
- 42 - Single · 2023
- Hero (Deluxe Edition) · 2016
- Hero (Deluxe Edition) · 2016
- Texas - Single · 2023
- Hero (Deluxe Edition) · 2016
- Christmas Is Here! · 2018
- GIRL · 2019
Essential Albums
- When Maren Morris moved to Nashville, the now megastar had modest dreams of making a living as a writer for hire on Music Row. After finding her footing in town (as well as connecting with a top-notch cadre of cowriters), Morris wrote a song that would forever change her life: “My Church.” “I didn't have the interest to just be back onstage again for probably four or five years,” she tells Apple Music. “Then I wrote ‘My Church’ and it just kind of rekindled this flame in me of wanting to be the one on the microphone, because I just couldn't hear someone else singing that song.” The Grammy-winning single is only one of several hits on her fourth album Hero, which was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Country Album and led to Morris’ 2016 CMA Award win for New Artist of the Year. The breezy, carefree pop of “80s Mercedes” foreshadowed Morris’s genre agnosticism, while “Rich,” with its irreverent lyrics and earworm of a chorus, showed her versatility. Morris scored her first No. 1 hit at radio with the wistful ballad “I Could Use a Love Song,” an accomplishment that cut through the glut of men clogging country radio charts. “At the time, I don't think people remember how unheard of it was for a female with a ballad to go all the way to the top,” she tells Apple Music. Morris coproduced Hero alongside the late producer and songwriter busbee, who served as an integral collaborator for Morris until his death at 43 in 2019. “He’s just so embedded in every tom sound, every kick drum,” she tells Apple Music. “Every bass note is him playing. It’s still such a timeless record, to me, because of him.” Hero would soon catapult Morris to new heights, including featuring prominently on Zedd’s massive, paradigm-shifting pop hit “The Middle,” a move that would make her a household name just in time for the release of Hero’s follow-up, 2019’s GIRL.
Albums
Artist Playlists
- Country's crossover queen blazes her own trail.
- Whether gritty or glam, her imagery matches her imagination.
- The country music powerhouse revives her fan-curated RSVP tour.
- Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
- The soulful country-pop star gives a voice to desire.
- She brings country’s biggest names to her church.
- 2023
Appears On
- The Highwomen
Radio Shows
- Maren Morris takes you through her journey and helps you through yours.
- Dean Dillon, HARDY, and Maren Morris celebrate.
- Jake and Maren talk about standing up for what they believe in.
- Maren discusses her favorite topics—self-growth & mental health.
- Fans call in to share their life-changing stories with Maren.
- Maren Morris joins Kelleigh to chat about Humble Quest.
About Maren Morris
When Maren Morris’ first single, “My Church,” broke through in 2016, a few pious folks thought she was blaspheming by proclaiming she never felt more holy than when speeding with the radio turned up. The country star has been making unapologetically modern hits and driving into opposing lanes ever since. Morris was born in Arlington, Texas, in 1990, and played across the state for years before moving to Nashville to write songs for bigger names. But God or the gods of country radio were smiling down, and her 2016 debut, Hero, made Morris famous by showcasing a deep-bottomed voice that could swoop up to broken high notes, and songs that drew her as autonomous, cool, skeptical about commitment, and always barrelling forward. Then came something more startling than blasphemy: non-country success. The 2018 global hit “The Middle”—a collaboration with dance-pop giant Zedd and future-bass duo Grey—evoked big-tent EDM, ’90s pop comfort food, and, save the Texas twang in her vocal, not a whiff of western. It was a distinctive move, and controversial to some. But with 2019’s swaggering “GIRL” (“About being a woman in this very competitive industry,” she told Apple Music), and as a voice in left-leaning Americana supergroup The Highwomen, Morris has become a fake-fur-wearing agent for change. Count on outrage.
- HOMETOWN
- Arlington, TX, United States
- BORN
- April 10, 1990
- GENRE
- Country