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Maggy DONALDSON

Beyonce Album Highlights The Black Women Changing Country Music

Chapel Hart -- Trea Swindle, Danica Hart and Devynn Hart -- is one of many Black country acts trying to change the narrative in Nashville (Credit: AFP)

"Twenty-three in Music City / With dreams and high-heeled boots / Singin' for a crowd of blue eyes / Will they want me too?" croons Julie Williams at the Blue Room venue in Nashville.

The 26-year-old, who is biracial, is one of many Black female artists carving out space in country music's capital, where predominantly white, male gatekeepers dictate who makes it -- and who doesn't.

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