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How Kelsea Ballerini Turned Heartbreak Into Country Hits, and the Romance That Inspired Her Introspective New Music
Country-pop singer Kelsea Ballerini opens up about new music, her romance with Chase Stokes and ventures in film and television.
For several weeks last fall, Ballerini, 31, temporarily left her haven in Nashville to embrace that busy environment, settling in Los Angeles while filming her first full season on “The Voice,” alongside fellow coaches Adam Levine, John Legend and Michael Bublé. “I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone as ambitious as Kelsea,” says Ballerini’s manager, Jason Owen, whose Sandbox Entertainment also reps Kacey Musgraves, Billie Eilish and Little Big Town. She credits her collaborators, Alysa Vanderheym, who co-produced and co-wrote every song on “Patterns,” and co-writers Jessie Jo Dillon, Hillary Lindsey and Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild for helping her to forge ahead through self-doubt.
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