Country singer Lainey Wilson said her farmer ancestors passed down their work ethic.
The 31-year-old Grammy winner discussed the value of hard work while speaking with Fox News Digital ahead of the 2024 ACM Awards.
“Yes, my parents are, they’re the ones to blame. They’re the ones to blame for all of this,” Wilson joked. “They have truly supported me from the beginning.”
“I truly do think it is from being from a long line of farmers. I mean, on my mom’s side and my daddy’s side. They rolled their sleeves up. They got to work every single day and had good years and bad years, but at the end of the day, they loved it,” the “Yellowstone” actress continued.
Wilson told the outlet, “So that meant that they got up and they did it again, and they’d fall down and they’d do it again. They just had no other option and my daddy has always tried to remind me that he worked really hard, but he’s not just working hard for himself. He’s working hard for me and my sister and my mama and my sister’s kids and one day my kids,” Wilson continued.
The singer-songwriter also said she believes it’s “really important to keep…in mind” that hard work is “just life.”
“It kind of takes a little bit of pressure off of you when you take yourself out of it, I guess it makes working hard a lot easier,” Wilson said.
She also explained how her song “Hang Tight Honey” was inspired by her upbringing and her beloved small town of Baskin, Louisiana.
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“When I think about who I am today, it truly is because of the place and the people that raised me. It’s always important to tip your hat to those people, and it’s very important for me to remember where I come from,” Wilson told Fox News.
“During this crazy time, my life has changed, and I feel like I’m not like I’m not changing, but my life is, if that makes any sense at all. I feel like it’s important for me to remember where I come from and remind myself.”
She went on, “It’s cool that I get to write this music and I get to remind myself of that every single night. At the end of the day, in order for me to be able to tell the kind of stories that I’m supposed to tell and relate to my fans, I got to keep living as normal of a life as I possibly can. That’s why I keep my people close and that’s why I keep the people of Baskin, my town of 200 people, close.”
