Fiona Culley delivers cover of Beyonce’s "Daddy Lessons"

Country Music Tattle Tale Exclusively Premieres Video
+ new single "Anywhere With You" + UK Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (May 10, 2016) – Country's own British powerhouse Fiona Culley is premiering a cover video for Beyonce’s “Daddy Lesson’s” on Country Music Tattle Tale.

Media outlets have been buzzing since the release of “Daddy Lesson’s” from Beyonce’s Lemonade album claiming that the ‘Queen B’ is going country. 

Culley brings the country essence to the forefront with her stripped back version in this rendition of the trending tune. 

Watch the Beyonce cover video:

Published on 9 May 2016 it has received 6,539 YouTube views as of May 17th.

Credits: Written by Wynter Gordon, Beyoncé Knowles, Kevin Cossom, Alex Delicata for Beyonce'S Publishing, Bat Future Music, Hitco South
Produced by Wiley Chandler | Director of Photography: Wiley Chandler | Second Unit Cameraman: Christah Cato
Engineered and mixed by Dewey Boyd at Forty-One Fifteen Recordings (http://fortyonefifteen.com) Nashville, TN
Lead Vocals: Fiona Culley  Background Vocals: Deanna Denning  Percussion: Megan Carchman
Guitar: Wiley Chandler  Wurlitzer Keyboard: David Lukens Bass: Chris Croce Saxaphone: Jovan Quallo Trombone: Garen Webb.

Deemed the ‘Adele of Country’ by industry vet and hit producer Paul Worley (Lady Antebellum, The Band Perry, Martina McBride, Sara Evans). On March 7, 2016 Culley celebrated the release of her new Country/ Pop single “Anywhere With You” (Marro Records) from her forthcoming EP. Released by the indie label Marro Entertainment and written by Culley and Chris Gelbuda, the tune highlights her fresh sound and powerful vocals. The digital download is available for purchase at:

Amazon UK - UK iTunes – iTunes - Amazon.com - CD Baby | SPOTIFY

Anywhere With You was described as “a fun-loving feel good song” Co-writtee and producer Chris Gelbuda has also produced 3 AM by Meghan Trainor along with “Like I’m Gonna Lose You”, featuring John Legend, which was certified Platinum in the U.S. and has reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 as of December 3, 2015.

Even Darius Rucker tweeted about how much he loved Fiona's new song!

Get my friend Fiona's single toda. I love it. https://t.co/Un6EnzhMjN

— Darius Rucker (@dariusrucker) 12 March 2016

Fiona is slated to have completed a forthcoming EP enlisting a hit team of musicians with Paul Worley again at the helm. It will include a catchy humourous number ‘What Whiskey Does’ (written by Brandy Clark & Bob Dipiero) whilst soul searching ‘Better Alone’ (written by Fiona) finds her digging deep cutting straight to the heart.

You can her samples of her music at marromediaco.com One's we love and are excited about in our Fiona Culley Jukebox!

Fiona posted on Instagram “Had some lovely things written about me in the local papers back at home”.

The Burton Mail extract: A FORMER Abbots Bromley Girls School pupil who moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in America, to try to make her dream of becoming a country singer come true has released her first single.

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Fiona Culley, 26, is getting closer to stardom with her first single, Anywhere With You, which has been chosen to be the title track to a new film called 'Life On The Line', starring John Travolta, Sharon Stone, Devon Sawa and Kate Bosworth. 

Fiona wrote the song with Chris Gelbuda, a singer-songwriter/producer who has worked with chart-topping artist Meghan Trainor.

"Although I miss England, I'm really enjoying American life and have made some good friends here. 
Things here are quite laid back, although, as most of the people who live in Nashville are fellow musicians trying to make it big with their own music careers, it can be quite a competitive environment. 

Fortunately, being British is helping me stand out a little."

Fiona was inspired by her dad's country collection and has enjoyed country music from a very young age.

Country singing star from Abbots Bromley @FionaCulley in Nashville success - https://t.co/z6cjRg5cEV

— Helen Kreft (@helen_kreft) 10 May 2016

Previously Fiona Culley performed "Thinking Out Loud" (Ed Sheeran Cover, by: Ed Sheeran & Amy Wadge)

First published on 23 Jul 2014 the video has received 2,78 million views

The video was produced by: Wiley Chandler, Recording & Mixing Engineer: Ryan Wilson (Nashville, TN, USA from The Love Willows)

Credits: Acoustic Guitar: Wiley Chandler; Electric Guitar: Dan Reising; Bass Guitar: Shawn Scruggs; Percussion: Matt Muha

Additional Percussion: Ryan Wilson. Watch it here:

"Thinking Out Loud" written by Ed Sheeran & Amy Wadge first entered the UK Singles Chart at #26 serving as a promotional single from his second studio album, x) and first reached #1 on the chart dated Nov 2, 2014 in its 19th chart frame in the Top 40, breaking the record for the longest ascent to No.1 In the week ending 27 June 2015, it had spent a record consecutive 52 weeks inside the top 40. It’s Sheeran's best-selling song in the United States, with 4,300,000 copies sold as of July 2015

In October 2015, "Thinking Out Loud" set the record of most streams of a song on Spotify, having accumulated over 500 million streams.

It was nominated for British Single of the Year in 2015 and won Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance at the 2016 Grammy Awards!

About Fiona Culley

Current location - Nashville, Tennessee

Finding inspiration from her countryside home in Staffordshire and the wandering landscapes of England, Culley’s move to Nashville has shaped her music and songwriting for good.

• Goal: Blending a collection of old and new influences, from the likes of Johnny Cash to Carrie Underwood, she is bringing her fresh sound to Country Music.
• Fiona hails from Barton Under Needwood, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. The Lichfield Gazzette wrote ”She’s recently been described as the UK’s answer to Taylor Swift” and her bio described her as ‘the Adele of country with a twist of Reba McEntire’.
• Culley has been compared to country music legend Dolly Parton, but said that was only down to her white blonde hair and curves, adding: “It could be way worse”.
• It was when she was spotted by American country singer Darius Rucker, lead singer of Grammy Award-winning band Hootie & the Blowfish in a London restaurant that she saw an opportunity for her big break, deciding the way to get noticed was to sing to him in front of the rest of the diners. She seized her chance and her version of Strangers and Angels by Kara DioGardi did the trick, resulting in him taking her details and flying her out to the home of country music, Nashville, Tennessee to record a duet with him the following week.
• In January 2014 her 3 year VISA was approved and she travelled to Nashville.
• On July 23, 2014 she posted that she was “working with the amazing producer Paul Worley” (Lady Antebellum) on her upcoming record. They had known each other for the last two years but this is their first collaboration together.

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