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Lainey Wilson leads CMA Awards nominations in her 1st year
Read full article: Lainey Wilson leads CMA Awards nominations in her 1st yearLouisiana-native Lainey Wilson is having a breakout year as she tops the Country Music Association nominations in her first year as a nominee, earning nods in six categories.
Jim Seals of โ70s group Seals and Crofts dies at age 80
Read full article: Jim Seals of โ70s group Seals and Crofts dies at age 80Jim Seals, who teamed with fellow musician โDashโ Crofts on such 1970s soft-rock hits as โSummer Breeze,โ โDiamond Girlโ and โWe May Never Pass This Way Again,โ has died at age 80.
Elton John pairs with Nicki, Miley, many more on new album
Read full article: Elton John pairs with Nicki, Miley, many more on new albumElton John is releasing an album of collaborations with artists from several generations and genres, including Nicki Minaj, Young Thug, Miley Cyrus, Lil Nas X, Stevie Nicks and Stevie Wonder.
"Midnight Train to Georgia' songwriter Jim Weatherly dies
Read full article: "Midnight Train to Georgia' songwriter Jim Weatherly diesFILE - In this June 12, 2014 file photo, Jim Weatherly speaks at the Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards in New York. Weatherly, who wrote hit songs like Midnight Train to Georgia," has died. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)NASHVILLE, Tenn. โ Hall of Fame songwriter Jim Weatherly, who wrote โMidnight Train to Georgia" and other hits for Gladys Knight, Glen Campbell and Ray Price, has died. Gladys Knight & The Pips won Grammy Awards for their performances of โMidnight Train to Georgiaโ and โNeither One of Usโ in 1974. AdWeatherly, a Mississippi native, was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2006 and the national Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.
Charley Pride overcame racial barriers as country music star
Read full article: Charley Pride overcame racial barriers as country music starAnd he did it by winning over millions of country music fans. Until the early 1990s, when Cleve Francis came along, Pride was the only Black country singer signed to a major label. โThen it was โfirst Negro country singer;โ then โfirst Black country singer.โ Now Iโm the `first African-American country singer.โฒ Thatโs about the only thing thatโs changed. Throughout his career, he sang positive songs instead of sad ones often associated with country music. Even a country singer,โ said country singer Rissi Palmer on Twitter.
Trailblazer Charley Pride to get lifetime achievement award
Read full article: Trailblazer Charley Pride to get lifetime achievement awardNASHVILLE, Tenn. โ Trailblazing country music star Charley Pride will get a lifetime achievement award at the CMA Awards in November. 1 hits between the 1960s and 1980s, with songs like โKiss An Angel Good Mornin'โ and โIs Anybody Goin' to San Antone.โPride, 82, will accept the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award on the CMA Awards on Nov. 11 on ABC. Pride was named CMA Entertainer of the year in 1971 and won male artist of the year in 1971 and 1972. He has three Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2000. Other recipients of the award include Nelson, Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton and Kris Kristofferson.
Reba McEntire, Darius Rucker take over as CMA Awards hosts
Read full article: Reba McEntire, Darius Rucker take over as CMA Awards hostsNASHVILLE, Tenn. โ Country stars Reba McEntire and Darius Rucker are promising laughs and good music when they co-host this year's CMA Awards in November. McEntire, a Country Music Hall of Famer and veteran host of country music awards shows, returns after hosting last year with Carrie Underwood and Dolly Parton. Pride was the first Black country artist to co-host the awards show, in 1975 with Glen Campbell. And to be here 14 years later hosting with Reba freaking McEntire? Although the pandemic may change some behind-the-scenes production, McEntire promised she would keep up her awards show tradition of multiple outfit changes throughout the broadcast.