'It Starts With Me': Ty Herndon On Re-Releasing His Country Hit With Male Pronouns
Country singer Ty Herndon came out as gay in 2014 and this year, he's re-releasing his 1995 hit "What Mattered Most" with updated lyrics to fit his true identity.
by Audie Cornish
Jun 04, 2019
2 minutes
In February 1995, Nashville-based country singer Ty Herndon released "What Mattered Most," a love song about a woman. "I thought I knew the girl so well," Herndon sings at the top of the track. "If she was sad, I couldn't tell." By May of '95, the single hit No. 1
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