Gretchen Peters

Artist: Gretchen Peters

Genre: Country

Total Albums: 25

Gretchen Peters (born November 14, 1957 in Bronxville, New York) is an American singer-songwriter in the folk/country genre. An accomplished song-writer, she won the Country Music Association Song Of The Year award in 1994 for "Independence Day", a hit at the time for Martina McBride. She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014. Though born in New York, Peter's was raised in Boulder, Colorado, and then moved to Nashville in the late 1980s.