Randi Richardson is a reporter for NBC News' TODAY.com based in Brooklyn.
One little blackbird, Tanner Adell, wanted to be on Beyoncé’s new country album. Now, she is. Adell, who has been making country music for two years, is featured on “Cowboy Carter” cover of the Beatles’ “Blackbird.” Paul McCartney said in 2018 he wrote the song to inspire Black women during the Civil Rights movement.
Adell’s path to country stardom Her road into the genre is similar to what nearly every country song sings about — a winding back road remaining as the sun rises and sets. In a 2022 profile with her alma mater, Utah Valley University, Adell said she was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and adopted. Her parents brought her back to their home in Manhattan Beach, California, where she met their two other adopted children, and later an additional two kids that they also adopted.
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