Ashley Gearing

In 2003 Ashley Gearing scored a Top 40 hit with the single “Can You Hear Me When I Talk To You?” It was released by Lyric Street Records and it broke a 46-year-old chart record held by Brenda Lee as the youngest solo singer ever to enter the country charts. 11 at the time, Ashley Gearing recently turned 19 and while she released an independent album in 2006, it wasn’t really until her partnership with Curb Records that found the singer returning to the national stage.

Written with Ben Glover and Brian Davis, “What You Think About Us” is a song that finds Ashley singing about the boy in her life and as she listens to him list off the things he loves and wants to do, Ashley simply asks him “what he thinks about us?” While some could consider the question something that would only be asked by an insecure girl, in reality this is a question that all people – particularly young women – think about all the time, particularly when the relationship is in its early stages.

Blessed with the kind of vocals that many female country artists would ‘die’ for, Ashley shows off how well she can wring the emotion of the lyric out. While the production is ‘big’ like some of the very best singles from Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Ashley is able to sing the ‘hell’ out of the song and turn it into an instantly memorable piece of music that is nothing, if not radio ready. - Roughstock

Ashley Gearing recently released a brand new single called “Five More Minutes” to country radio. The song delivers an important message about the speed at which life can pass. Gearing co-wrote the song with Tiffany Goss and Nicole Witt during their first-ever writing session, when Ashley was still a high school student in Massachusetts

“‘Five More Minutes’ is a song that I wrote when I was sixteen,” Gearing tells CountryMusicIsLove. “I kind of put it my back pocket and years later Curb came to me and said they wanted it to be my brand new single.”

The song means a lot to Ashley for many different reasons.

“I was estactic because I wrote it in the living room of house,” she says. “I had just signed a record deal with Curb and I was still living at home because I wanted to wait till I graduated from high school before I went to Nashville and made the big move.”

“So it represents a lot for me. It represents how my life kinda has come full circle. The song has kind of taken on a new meaning for me as I’ve been getting busier and staying away from my family a lot, I’m able to really appreciate the time that is spent with them….everyone needs five more minutes in their life.”

Fans can learn more about Ashley and take a listen to “Five More Minutes” HERE on her official website. - Country Music is Love

Bottom Line:

It was back in 2003 at the age of only 12 years old when Ashley Gearing Exploded on to country radio with her smash CD single "Can You Hear Me When I Talk To You." Now three years later, she has released her full length debut CD on Squeeze Records called Maybe It's Time. These 11 tracks are filled with driving rhythms, powerful ballads and fantastic vocal arangements. Musically and vocally sounding a little like Shania Twain at times, this is a fabulous CD!
So, where ya been?
Over the past three years, Ashley Gearing has been playing guitar, perfecting her song writing skills and has appeared numerous times onstage at the Grand Ole Opry. She has performed with the Boston Pops, also at the homecoming celebration for General Tommy Franks. Along with that, she has also appeared on numerous occasions with the Boston Red Sox on national television. This also includes the national playoffs with the New York Yankees in 2004. She has also recorded music for the Walt Disney CD Series, DISNEYMANIA, with a fabulous version of the song "When You Wish Upon A Star." Add to that all of her recent appearances on radio both syndicated and local, Ashley Gearing has been one very busy young lady. She is taking advantage of every possible medium to get her music out there to be heard. One of those ways is on her myspace page, www.myspace.com/ashleygearing. In the first 3 months of the site, she has had over 255,000 total song plays, with a daily average of 4,000 song played per day.

Maybe It's Time
Ashley Gearing's debut CD on Squeeze Records has been three years in the making. It's entitled Maybe It's Time. This CD is filled with a lot of high energy tracks and heart warming balads. With the vocal dramatics of Shania Twain, the singing power of Martina McBride, and the youthful singing style of LeAnn Rimes, Ashley Gearing delivers up 11 very powerful tracks. With a modern driving beat, and old fashioned musical arrangements, this CD will appeal to fans of all ages. She has a youthful singing style with the vocal maturity of a woman, and she is only 15 years old. The CD starts off with the slow, but powerful track "I Found It In You." A song about finding all that you need in the one you love. "Out There Somewhere" is a song about knowing that the right one for you is out there somewhere as long as you keep looking. She also does a very nice, if not haunting cover of the song "Ode To Billy Joe" originally done in 1967 by Bobbie Gentry. "Sunday Paper" is a fun up tempo song about a woman who is sick of hearing all her former loves excuses and tells him to just "put it in the Sunday paper." This is an outstanding CD from one of tomorrows superstars. - About.com

Who knew that country artist Ashley Gearing is making music to work out to — for a superstar NFL wide receiver, no less! Cincinnati Bengals wide out and former ‘Dancing With the Stars’ contestant Chad Ochocinco tweeted about listening to Gearing’s lilting ballad ‘Five More Minutes’ while working out. While upbeat, fast and aggressive songs seem like more appropriate gym fare, maybe Ochocinco is on to something.

Ochocinco’s tweet read as follows: “Was in the gym with Ashley Gearing’s song entitled 5 More Minutes on repeat, awesome song. Something about country music is very compelling.” Not only is Ochocinco into Gearing’s song, but he also gave the country genre a ringing endorsement in 140 characters or less!

Gearing also benefited from the tweet, gaining 300 new followers within the first hour of it being posted. Ochocinco later tweeted another affirmation of his love for Gearing’s music, writing, “I’m pretty sure it’s Ashley Gearing that’s making country music compelling … yep, I’m positive.” He also tweeted about listening to Disturbed, too, so it was a musical day for Ochocinco.

Who knows — maybe one day Ashley Gearing will be able to sing the National Anthem at a Bengals game. - Taste Of Country