Country Music Embraces Diversity: Insights from Mickey Guyton, Orville Peck, and Jimmie Allen.
Country music stars Mickey Guyton, Orville Peck, and Jimmie Allen discuss their struggles with diversity in the industry and how they have overcome them. They are now part of the panel on AppleTV+'s talent competition, My Kind of Country, which is searching for a Nashville star who doesn't fit the typical mold. The show features 12 diverse contestants, including several Black singers and one non-binary artist, hailing from Mexico, India, and South Africa. The scouts believe that change is coming to the country music genre, whether the conservative record executives want it or not.