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Stephenville resident and Tarleton rodeo star Molly Gaynor releases debut original – ‘My Heart Got a DUI.’

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Broken Diamond Records is proud to announce the debut original single release of “My Heart Got a DUI,” performed by 20-year-old Stephenville recording artist and rodeo competitor Molly Gaynor.

 

Available on all major streaming platforms July 31, the song marks Gaynor’s arrival as a full original artist — and the fulfillment of a song that waited nearly two decades for exactly the right voice.

 

 

A song 19 years in the making…

 

In 2007, songwriter Beverly VanScyoc was deep in an on-again, off-again relationship that finally came apart — again.

 

The morning after, a friend called with news: “Did you hear so-and-so got a DUI last night?”

 

Without missing a beat, Beverly replied, “My heart got a DUI last night.”


 

She hung up the phone and wrote the song.


The problem was simple and stubborn: Beverly doesn’t sing. She tucked the song away and waited.

 

For 19 years.

 

Then one evening she walked into Newton’s Saddle Rack, a local restaurant in Stephenville, and heard a young woman’s voice stop the room.


Molly Gaynor was singing Rihanna’s “Stay.”


Beverly stayed. 


The song had found its voice.

 

“This is a song Bev wrote a long time ago and never had anyone to sing it until she met me,” Gaynor said.

 

For Gaynor, the reason behind the music has never been complicated.

 

“I kinda just like to say that when people dance to the songs I’m singing, or they stop to listen, it makes why I do this 10 times better,” she said.



“It’s to see the way music brings people together no matter where they are or what they’re doing.” 


About Molly Gaynor

 

Molly Gaynor is not a newcomer to big stages.

 

At just 11 years old, she was selected to sing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo — the most prestigious rodeo event in the world — in Las Vegas, Nevada.

 

 

That moment announced something the rodeo world already suspected: this girl had a voice built for arenas.

 

Now 20, Gaynor is a student at Tarleton State University, where she competes on the university rodeo team as a team roping header and breakaway roper.

 

She grew up in Powell Butte, Oregon before her family relocated to Stephenville in 2020.

 

 

 

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