First and foremost, if your desire is to be a STAR, forget country music and go into acting. People in the Country Music Hall of Fame didn't get there setting out to be a star -- they were MUSICIANS who absolutely HAD to get their music out of them. Chet Atkins said he would have gladly PAID people to listen to him -- the thought of them paying to hear him never entered his mind.
Secondly, forget about it NOW. Be a kid, for crying out loud. Read about so-called "child stars" and how, universally, their biggest regret was that they never got the chance to be just a kid.
Then the usual rules apply:
1. If you want to be a COUNTRY singer, SOUND COUNTRY. DO NOT sing rock or pop and try to pass yourself off as a country singer.
2. And while you're at it, develop your OWN sound. DO NOT try to be "the next (whoever is hot right now)" because by the time you're heard, discovered, signed, and recorded, whoever is hot will be a feature on the "where are they now" segment of "Entertainment Tonight."
3. In regard to the earlier remark about taking time to be a kid, get some books on the industry and biographies or autobiographies of country performers and see just what they had to go through. When you see what a racket the industry is anymore -- you're told how to dress, what to sing, when to sing it, and probably when to announce you're breaking up with someone -- you may not want it. Look at what Tiger Woods is going through right now. Celebrities have their every bowel movement analyzed anymore by the ever-prying media. That isn't polite, but it IS, unfortunately, the truth.
4. Stay where you are and develop a following there. If you cannot impress the home folks, no one is going to be interested in Nashville.
5. Speaking of Nashville, DO NOT move there. The idea of waltzing into town and getting a record deal only happens in the movies, it does NOT happen in real life. On that subject, do not send demos to the record company because they will end up in the trash can, unopened; or, if the receptionist is feeling particularly generous that day they will mark "refused, return to sender" on it and send it back to you.
6. Be ready for rejection, and LOTS of it. Remember, the Beatles, the biggest band in rock music history, was rejected by every single label they auditioned for the first time around, and they ended up on a tiny label named Vee Jay because no major label wanted them. Jim Denny, the Opry manager, told a guesting singer that he should go back to driving trucks because he would never make it in music. The "truck driver" Denny told off was Elvis Presley. Both Homer & Jethro and the Carter Family were told to fire their guitar player if they wanted to become members of the Opry because Opry management didn't like him. The guitarist in question was Chet Atkins. It happened to the absolute best, so it's going to happen to you.
7. Remember the odds. Less than 1/10th of 1% of all the people who "want" to be discovered ever get heard. Of those who do, 1/10th of 1% of them get a second listen.