Kassi Ashton is currently on the country radio airwaves with her single, “Dates In Pickup Trucks,” which she co-wrote and produced with Luke Laird and David Garcia. The California native singer/songwriter, who also competed in many pageants when she was young, says she’s been singing since she was a tiny tot.

“I always say I’ve been singing since before I could read, because my mom would sneak me into karaoke bars, literally sneak me, because you know the high-top cocktail tables? She’d put me under the tablecloth, and I’d do scratch off tickets under the tablecloth,” she recalls. “But she would stand behind me, because I couldn’t read the prompter and tell me the words before they came up on the screen, and I was so little that if people clapped too loud, I would cry. So, I’ve literally been singing since I was tiny.”

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