We recently connected with Britt Clark and have shared our conversation below.

Britt, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear about when you first realized that you wanted to pursue a creative path professionally.

I knew at three years old my life was going to evolve around music. I loved country music (so much that my parents said country radio was the only way they could get me to go to sleep) and knew from a young age I wanted to be a country music singer. As soon as I began to talk I began to sing those popular 2000s country melodies I was hearing on CMT and the radio stations. I picked up a pencil and paper the summer in-between kindergarten and first grade and began writing songs. I had no idea being a songwriter was even a career opportunity for myself until I moved to Nashville at twenty. I grew up on a farm so the lifestyles these popular artists were singing about during my childhood was second nature to me. Unconventionally – I was the FFA kid, competition marching band kid, and also the kid who wore a bald cap during my high school theatre productions. I grew up playing saxophone in my school’s band program and picked up a guitar at the age of thirteen. I began taking this idea of being a songwriter seriously six weeks into my move to Nashville; feeling as I had finally found my niche in the music industry. There is no other feeling than sitting down in a room with strangers where you tell stories and create a song from a memory, feeling, emotion, etc. of someone in the room, or even a collective of all of us together. The best part is after those three hour writes you feel as if those strangers and you have connected on a level that is so much deeper.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

As I said, I grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere Ohio. I had older parents and was the only child so I did not have the conventional childhood that many of my peers talked about. Summer days were spent in the garden, in the turkey barns (yes, I grew up on a TURKEY farm), and gabbing with my mom in the kitchen. I spent a lot of time outside which I think helped to nurture the creative mindset I have always had. The blue radio I carried outside with me everywhere was always blaring music, a a common way to keep myself occupied – but also as a way for me to pick up these songs. I soon began to come up with my own. Anyone that knew me growing up knew I always had headphones in or was singing – music truly filled my days from the moment I got up, till I stepped on the school bus or got in the car to come home.

I feel like my story and my style is very drastically different than what I hear from a lot of artists today. I try to tie a piece of myself into everything I do but I also have learned over the years that not every single song has to be so serious. I have really begun to play into humor or culture and just be more laid back with writing in that sense – which listeners will hear a good chunk of in many releases I have planned for in 2025.

I love the direction I have been taking creatively over the past couple of months and truly felt that I have solidified my “brand” as an artist. I am so excited to see what the next year has in store, as most importantly, to put out seven new songs next year!

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

Unfortunately, I lost both of my parents at a young age. I am twenty-four now, but lost my mother at fourteen and dad at twenty-two both to cancer. Being in the midst of college when my dad passed gave me a new perspective on life and made me question if staying in Nashville or even having the option to pursue music was even feasible to me. I am beyond blessed of everyone here in Nashville who has stepped up the plate and gave me a fighting chance to finish school, support me when I had pennies to my name, a couch to crash on, and deal with every single emotion I have felt in these past two years without both of them. My story is different, but God has blessed me in ways I cold not have imagined. There is so many people to thank for my success thus far and so many people who truly believe in this crazy dream of mine. If I could give anyone advice who is struggling to find the end of a tunnel after a tragedy in life is that every single chapter in our life has a purpose. Lean on those you love, lean on the the small wins in life, do things that make you happy, and trust God’s plan. My mother was the strongest, most bad-ass woman I ever met and she instilled so much strength in me. I believe this strength has carried me through to keep attaining my goals.

Any insights you can share with us about how you built up your social media presence?

The best advice I can tell anyone – whether an artist, songwriter. creative, ANYTHING is to be authentic and to stick to your brand. I had the hardest time in college trying to morph into a version of myself that wasn’t me because I was not confident in myself. Over the past year I have learned to love to the person I am and who I am becoming which has not only created a lot of happiness in my personal and professional life, but also an increase of engagement. Experiment. Be creative. Work on yourself. Figure out your brand. Have fun (because if we don’t love it, WHY are we doing it?). Never EVER lose sight of your goals because the bigger picture is so much bigger than trying to look like every single other person in your respective field.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: @brittclarkmusic
• Other: Tik Tok: @brittclarkmusic

Image Credits

Carly Marmen