Rising country star Belle Frantz is making her mark on country music with her traditional style and throwback to classic country music. The 21-year-old is a native of Greenwood Springs, Mississippi but has been making waves in Nashville for the past year. Frantz released her first EP, Why I Sing This Way, which features a collection of songs by some of the artists that have influenced her most including Conway Twitty, George Jones and her ultimate role model, Reba McEntire. Frantz’s TikTok videos for the recently released songs “Hello Darlin’” and “The Grand Tour” have gone viral and fans are comparing the newcomer to Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn.

Having grown up in a rural community, Frantz was a country girl and was very close with her grandparents. It is in her grandfather’s shop where she was exposed to classic country artists that soon became her music of choice., including George Jones and Patsy Cline and KT Oslin. When her grandfather passed away, 12-year-old Frantz went through a basket of his CD’s and the first new one she discovered was McEntire’s Last One To Know. This album was the catalyst for her love of singing and the songwriting process, which she studied intently. At age 16, Frantz started taking guitar and voice lessons. She began to play local shows to hone her craft and after community college, worked to save money to move to Nashville, where she has been writing with the industry’s top songwriters and recording for her forthcoming debut original project.