Cady Groves

About

Cady Danyl Groves (July 30, 1989 – May 2, 2020) was an American singer and songwriter. She began her career independently releasing music and signed with RCA Records in 2010. Her second EP, This Little Girl (2011), was positively received; its title track became her best known song. She went on to release another EP and six more singles before her death on May 2, 2020. Her fourth EP, Bless My Heart, was released posthumously that same year.

Groves was born on July 30, 1989, to Carol Pettit and Larry Groves, and was the youngest of seven children. Her siblings were Kevan, Casey (died 2007), Cody, Kyle, Kelly (died 2014), and Kelsy, along with three half-siblings, Adam Groves, Courtney Farmwald and Carrie Groves. She lived in Emporia, Kansas until her parents divorced, and then the family moved to Marlow, Oklahoma. She later moved to Cache, Oklahoma, before relocating to Valley Center, Kansas.
She moved to Laughlin, Nevada, in 2005, where she graduated high school at sixteen. Cady wanted to pursue a career in songwriting, but her family encouraged her to obtain higher education, so she attended and graduated from the Culinary Arts program at Mohave Community College in…