Brittney Spencer: Manifesting Global Country Stardom

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Debbie Speer
August 16, 2024
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Brittney Spencer decided to take a walk around the Hollywood Bowl grounds in Los Angeles during Bob Dylan’s “Outlaw Music Festival” set, which she had just opened, in the early evening of July 31 at the historic venue. She noticed a hush had fallen over the sold-out, roughly 18,000-strong audience. “People were invested, people were giving these icons their time and their attention,” Spencer says a few days later. “It’s a different energy, where people are a lot more attentive, and I think that’s a really beautiful thing.”

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Magazine cover of "Pollstar" featuring Brittney Specer a Black woman with long curly hair, eyes closed, playing a guitar, with text highlighting her rise to stardom in country music.
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