Miranda Lambert Finds Inspiration From Her Female Idols

As one of the most prominent and powerful female vocalists in country music at this time, Miranda Lambert admires the women before her who paved the way in the industry.

Looking up to many fierce and dominating artists throughout all of music, Lambert always tries to replicate the ones who came before her. She doesn’t just consider their musical choices as indicators of her own sound, but hopes to accomplish similar feats in her career just as the ladies who stood their own did.

“I loved from Patti Loveless to Faith (Hill), Shania (Twain), Sara Evans. Then also the pop side, you know, Beyoncé, Destiny’s Child. I was loving people that had something different, that did something a little bit different. When Faith did the pop album, the Cry record, I just thought it was great. Her singing was cool, it was something different, something I had never heard from little country Faith Hill and Shania obviously wrote all kinds of records and barriers with her music. Those aren’t necessarily my musical influences of course, but they’re influences to me as far as what they did later on in their careers versus when they started,” Lambert said recently.

Lambert doesn’t fall far from the tree of her heroes, as she’s garnered quite the amount of attention throughout her time in country music. Even earning multiple nominations for the upcoming 51st Annual CMA Awards in categories like Single of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year and more, the “Tin Man” singer made her name known for herself thanks to the former guidance of her favorites.

Like many others, Lambert will join her country music friends at the 51st Annual CMA Awards, which will air live from Nashville on Wednesday, November 8, at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.