Bluegrass Born & Raised

“I’m a bluegrass baby,” declared 23-year-old Jaelee Roberts, lead singer/guitarist with Sister Sadie and nominee for IBMA’s 2024 Female Vocalist of the Year, recipient of SPBGMA’s 2023 Vocalist of the Year and Album of the Year, nominee for IBMA’s 2022 New Artist of the Year, and recipient of IBMA’s 2021 Momentum Vocalist of the Year. Born with her own pedigree, she has bluegrass in her blood. Her dad, Danny Roberts, is mandolinist with The Grascals, a founding member of New Tradition, a former plant manager for Gibson Original Acoustic Instruments and a luthier. Her mom, Andrea Mullins Roberts, is Owner/Agent at The Andrea Roberts Agency and former bassist with Special Consensus and Petticoat Junction.  “I could sing before I could talk. I was around music since I was literally in the womb. My mom said that I would dance in her stomach when she turned on Blue Highway. I grew up singing at Redemption Baptist Church in Christiana, Tennessee.” Roberts started