He penned five songs that went to number one for other artists – including one for veteran star Luke Bryan, who on Wednesday won the night’s most prestigious award of Entertainer of the Year. “Chalk one up for the good guys”, finishes Timberlake. As he strummed his guitar onstage alongside Stapleton, everyone in the audience – even the men – was in awe as the pop prince entertained with his signature, killer falsetto. Most sang along and others gazed as if Timberlake was an icon making a comeback. The duo did renditions of Stapleton’s song “Tennessee Whiskey” and Timberlake’s “Drink You Away”.
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“How you feelin’ tonight?” “He’s a new dad and I’ve got little kids”. Little Big Town is not up for the biggest honor: entertainer of the year.
Lambert won Female Vocalist of the Year, her only award on the night. The hard work paid off when Stapleton won Album of the Year, New Artist of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year at the 2015 CMA’s. Liz Rose, who wrote the song with Lori McKenna and Hillary Lindsey, says she was thrilled Little Big Town loved the song because she didn’t think anyone would record it. We’ll never know. Unfortunately, it also wasn’t amusing. It literally took my breath. “I didn’t know that songwriting could be an actual job”, he explained to American Songwriter.
American country and bluegrass musician signed to Universal Music Group Nashville, Christopher Stapleton’s net worth is estimated to be $1 million.
Despite the fact that her ex-husband Blake Shelton publicly confirmed to the world mere hours earlier that he was dating Gwen Stefani, Lambert held her own with the performance of her latest tune.
By taking home a trio of Country Music Awards in 2015, Chris Stapleton announced his arrival at the next country music star.
Added Brad, “On a completely unrelated topic….Howdy, Blake!” The camera panned to Shelton who laughed and clapped his hands, along with the audience.
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The nominees and winners of the CMA Awards were determined by more than 7,400 industry professional members of CMA. Wearing a bedazzled Stapleton T-shirt while collecting the prize for female vocalist of the year, Miranda Lambert thanked the two singers and said, “I’m gonna go home and practice”. “I’m not going to take it lightly…I got to thank my wife again, she always pushes me to be the best I can be…I gotta thank all my cousins in Kentucky”.
