MALLARY
HOPE //
Songwriting,
Singing, and
Speaking from
the Heart
By Alexander MacDougall
For over a decade, Nashville’s Mallary Hope [Mallary Hope] Oh yes, absolutely! We used I would say “Amazing Grace” was probably the
has been a talented songwriter and artist in the to sing out of the ‘white hymnal’, I don’t know most popular song for me as a kid. (laughs)
Country music industry, and her songs have if you know what that is, but we had a tiny little been covered by multiple artists. But something church out in the country, and I grew up singing [WM] You initially began your entry into the
happened within her just a few years ago, and out of the ‘white hymnal’ and the ‘red hymnal’. music world hoping to become a Country music
she has now dedicated her giftings towards I can remember learning “Just as I Am”, and recording artist. Yet during this time, you found
Christian music. We caught up recently with “Amazing Grace”, when I was two and a half, a committed recording label elusive. Another
Mallary to hear her story. and getting up and singing that by heart. I just artist that comes to mind that experienced
always knew somehow, even at two, that music this same dilemma was Joni Mitchell. What
[WM] Growing up in church as a pastor’s was something that I was being called to do. I transpired within your heart during this time?
daughter, was there any particular music that would get up every week on Sundays and sing inspired your young heart? “Amazing Grace” from the time I was three, so
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[Mallary] I grew up loving Country music
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