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When Mackenzie Carpenter decided she wanted to move to Nashville to pursue a career in country music, her dad insisted she attend college first and get her degree, which she did, in Music Business at Belmont University in Nashville. While there might have been a part of Mackenzie that was frustrated in the beginning at not being able to go full force into chasing her dream, in hindsight she now knows going to Belmont and getting her degree was the best thing she ever could have done, because it laid the foundation for her career, and it helped her make some invaluable connections early on in her time in Nashville.

Mackenzie Carpenter – connections made at Belmont :19

“The people that I met my freshman year totally carried on, like the domino effect of connections to where I am now. I did have two years kind of chopped off due to COVID, so it was online. But I squeezed everything I could out of those first two years, and I do believe it’s had a big hand in where I’ve ended up.”