Texas Music Project Ambassador Chloee Rae Selected for Prestigious GRAMMY Camp® Nashville Program
Texas Music Project is proud to announce that Youth Ambassador Chloee Rae has been selected to attend the 2026 GRAMMY Camp® in Nashville, one of the nation’s premier music industry programs for high school students.
The GRAMMY Museum® recently announced that 208 talented high school students from 163 cities across 35 states were selected to participate in the newly expanded GRAMMY Camp® programs taking place in Nashville, Miami, Los Angeles, and New York. Chloee Rae was selected for the Nashville program, where she will learn from GRAMMY-winning and GRAMMY-nominated professionals, Recording Academy members, industry experts, and guest artists including Carly Pearce and Max McNown. Participants receive hands-on experience in songwriting, vocal performance, music production, instrumental performance, and music business while gaining an inside look at real-world music career pathways.
For Chloee, this opportunity represents far more than a summer music program.
Living with Crohn’s disease, she has faced significant health challenges throughout her young life. Yet through every setback, music has remained a source of strength, healing, and purpose. What began as a personal passion became a mission to inspire others through her story and her music.
“Chloee’s journey is exactly why Texas Music Project exists,” said Michael Clay, Founder and Executive Director of Texas Music Project. “She represents resilience, courage, and the power of music to help people overcome life’s greatest challenges. We are incredibly proud to see her earn this opportunity.”
Chloee’s story helped inspire Texas Music Project’s Song of Hope initiative, a program dedicated to bringing hope and healing through songwriting and music. Her original performance of “Thank You for the Music” resonated far beyond Texas, receiving national attention through television, radio, news outlets, and digital media across the country.
For Texas Music Project, Chloee’s acceptance into GRAMMY Camp carries special meaning.
In 2005, Texas Music Project sponsored a freshman from Arlington, Texas named Maren Morris to attend GRAMMY Camp in Los Angeles. At the time, she was an aspiring young songwriter with a dream. Twelve years later, Morris stood on music’s biggest stage and accepted the GRAMMY Award for Best Country Solo Performance for her hit song “My Church.”
Today, Maren Morris is recognized as one of country music’s most successful artists. Texas Music Project remains honored to have played a small role in supporting her early development and helping provide access to an opportunity that would contribute to an extraordinary career.
Now, twenty-one years later, another talented Texas artist is preparing to take those same first steps.
While every artist’s journey is unique, Chloee Rae’s selection serves as a reminder that opportunities matter. Access matters. Mentorship matters.
The same doors that once opened for Maren Morris are now opening for Chloee Rae.
From performing “Thank You for the Music” through Song of Hope to representing Texas Music Project on a national stage at GRAMMY Camp Nashville, Chloee continues to demonstrate the values that define the organization’s mission: perseverance, creativity, service, and hope.
“The most important bridge between a dream and reality is simply an open door,” said Michael Sticka, President and CEO of the GRAMMY Museum. “For more than two decades, GRAMMY Camp has opened that door for high school students, offering access, mentorship and real-world experience that transforms potential into possibility.”
Texas Music Project is proud to help open that door for Chloee Rae.
Through programs like Classroom to Stage, Music Heals, and Song of Hope, Texas Music Project continues to invest in the next generation of musicians while supporting music education programs, hospitals, schools, and communities throughout Texas.
Every instrument donated. Every scholarship awarded. Every opportunity created. Every life impacted through music.
It is only possible because of supporters who believe in the power of music to change lives.
