Kelsea Ballerini Talks Leading With Her "Heart First" astatine Grammys

Kelsea Ballerini looked adjacent amended than a homecoming queen astatine the 2023 Grammys.

The state prima walked the reddish carpet astatine the Crypto.com Arena during music's biggest nighttime Feb. 5 wearing a customized Prabal Gurung yellowish gown with cutouts. (See each prima deed the reddish carpet here.)

"I was nominated for a opus connected my caller medium Subject to Change and the medium cover, I wanted it to consciousness similar improvement and sunshine and maturation truthful Prabal customized made this gown for to lucifer my medium cover," she exclusively told Laverne Cox during E! Live from the Red Carpet. "I consciousness similar it's coming to beingness close now."

The album, she noted, helped her process a clip of alteration during her life. (In August, she and hubby Morgan Evans announced their interruption up aft 5 years of marriage.)

"I benignant of wrote the grounds from 26 to 28 and you perceive a batch of that questioning myself and looking introspectively but besides looking astatine my relationships and my narration astatine the clip and truly grappling with each of that and having immoderate increasing pains," the 29-year-old said. "I would telephone it a processing album, for sure. I'm truly arrogant of that."

At the event, hosted by Trevor Noah, Kelsea is up for Best Country Solo Performance for her song, "Heartfirst." Also nominated successful the category: Zach Bryan for "Something In The Orange", Miranda Lambert for "In His Arms",  Maren Morris for "Circles Around This Town" and Willie Nelson for "Live Forever".