According toIMDb, Nettles hails from Atlanta, Georgia, and her star rose quickly in the mid-to-late ’90s.

Over the course of her career, she’s even turned to acting.

Rocking the boat, for Nettles, means calling out institutions when necessary.

Jennifer Nettles in silver

She’s also not afraid to make a bold statement with her fashion.

They need to have role models and they need to have women to look up to.

However, with the advent of streaming, more power falls into the hands of consumers.

Jennifer Nettles in her 2019 CMTs cape

Algorithms are manmade and can thus have their own implicit biases.

Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush