Hayden Panettiere loved country music long before anyone asked her to sing it. She was afraid to try.
Panettiere died Sunday at 36. Her father, Skip Panettiere, called her “an incredible light and a force of nature” in a statement to ABC News, and asked for privacy while the family processes the loss. No cause has been released.
She’d been working toward an album since she was about 14, she said in 2012. She’d released a pop single, 2008’s “Wake Up Call.” “I felt like I was trying to be somebody I wasn’t,” she said.
Country was where her heart had always been. She was afraid that being from New York, people wouldn’t make the connection. She said she might have kept going in music if she’d had the confidence to try it.
What Happened Instead
Her breakout had been Claire Bennet, the indestructible cheerleader on NBC’s Heroes, and she starred on it for four seasons. Then came Nashville, which premiered on ABC in 2012 and later moved to CMT. Panettiere played Juliette Barnes for six seasons and earned two Golden Globe nominations, in 2013 and 2014.
The songs charted. Billboard lists 11 Panettiere songs on its Hot Country Songs chart, including “Telescope,” which reached country radio in October 2012 and stayed on the chart 15 weeks, longer than anything else she recorded. She was 23.
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Her duet with Charles Esten, “Undermine,” reached No. 35. She charted twice more with Connie Britton, who played Rayna James, on “Wrong Song” and “He Ain’t Gonna Change.” Her best song was “Don’t Put Dirt On My Grave Just Yet,” which reached No. 34 in 2014.
She was living in Music City while the show filmed there, and she called it the perfect place to be. People came up to her about her work, she said, and wanted nothing from her.
She is survived by her daughter, Kaya, born in 2014.
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