When I Fell in Love with Country Music

When did you fall in love with country music?

For Ahsaki LaFrance-Chachere, the answer lives in her grandfather’s voice, summers between the Navajo Nation and Louisiana, and a chance meeting with a young Houston cowboy.

In When I Fell in Love with Country Music, Ahsaki shares her journey as a Diné and Black woman whose life brings together family, rodeo, beauty, business, and music. From meeting her husband, Dennis, at thirteen to building businesses and helping country artists find their audiences, she follows the memories and relationships that shaped the woman she is becoming.

With humor and tenderness, she also opens up about loss, the weight of ambition, and learning to care for herself while creating opportunities for others.

An intimate memoir about love, belonging, and the courage to create, this is a story of carrying your people with you and finding your own voice along the way.