Gabby Barrett is on a long list of former competition singing show performers who have managed to turn reality TV appearances into stardom.
The 20-year-old country singer placed third on “American Idol” in 2018 as an 18-year-old dreamer and has maintained the momentum, becoming the first solo female songstress since Carly Pearce in 2017 to reach No.
1 on the country charts with her single “I Hope.” “Of course, growing up, you listen to your favorite people on the radio and you want to have an album of your own and you want to have number one songs that people know and can sing back to you when you have shows,” Barrett told Fox News. “So the plan with the song -- to just release it and see what people thought of it -- and for it to climb to.
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