Country Singer Chase Bryant Reveals 2018 Suicide Attempt: ‘Life Is Too Short, Don’t Make It Any Shorter’

Country star Granger Smith and his wife Amber have a lot to be thankful for today. Following their three-year-old son River’s tragic drowning death in 2019, the couple announced they are expecting a baby boy in August!

It’s an old and new approach at this year’s 56th Academy of Country Music Awards. Keith Urban, a 15-time ACM Award winner, will team with New Female Artist of the Year nominee Mickey Guyton as hosts of the April 18 show.

Chris Willman Music WriterKeith Urban is reprising his duties from last year as host of the Academy of Country Music Awards, but he’ll share the role on the 2021 telecast, as Mickey Guyton has been drafted to join him in fronting the show, set to air April 18 from Nashville on CBS.Guyton is enjoying a high profile on CBS this season. The network also has her slotted for a performance slot on this Sunday’s Grammy Awards.

Jesse Desorcy gave it his best effort, but sadly it was not enough.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSony Music Group has announced “Beyond the Instrument,” a new, annual program designed to stimulate creativity, advance educational resources and promote career development within the music industry.Save The Music and Music Forward are SMG’s first nonprofit partners for the program, according to the announcement.

Pussycat Dolls singer Jessica Sutta is pregnant! The Miami native exclusively reveals to ET that she is expecting her first child with husband Mikey Marquart.«It's been an exciting year for me so far. I got some crazy news to share.

Vanessa Bryant credits her three daughters — Natalia, 18, Bianka, 4, and Capri, 1 — with helping her through the deaths of her husband, Kobe Bryant, and daughter, Gianna Bryant, 13. “The pain is unimaginable, but you just have to get up and push forward,” Vanessa admitted in a new interview with People.

Chris Willman Music WriterTo the surprise of few, the CMA Festival planned for downtown Nashville in June has been canceled for a second consecutive year — likely the first of many likely summer festival cancellations to come in the U.S.The news first came via a lengthy note sent by Country Music Festival CEO Sarah Trahern to CMA members.While other festivals are still looking at vaccine rates and mulling their prospects for being able to pull off a large-scale, multi-day gathering before the

Country artists Chris Stapleton and Maren Morris topped the Country Music Awards nominations today, with each getting six nominations from the Academy of Country Music.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJade Bird is one of the more promising British singer-songwriters to emerge in the past few years, and Grammy-winning producer Dave Cobb — who has helmed albums by Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, the Highwomen and many more — is one of Nashville’s reigning producers.

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EXCLUSIVE: Spoken Giants, a royalty administration company for creators of spoken word copyrights, said Friday that the Don Rickles estate and comedian Mike Birbiglia are the latest to sign with the Nashville firm. CEO Jim King also applauded a large payout by digital services to music creators this week, but wondered when authors of spoken word content would also receive “appropriate compensation.”

On Friday, Netflix dropped its first trailer for “Country Comfort”, a new sitcom with a rom-com twist, set in the world of country music.

Chris Willman Music WriterCountry stars Luke Combs and Maren Morris took on the elephant in the room in a joint interview for the annual Country Radio Seminar conference Wednesday, address perceptions of racism and a lack of diversity in the genre that have gone from behind-the-scenes Nashville discussions to the talk of the nation in the wake of the Morgan Wallen N-word scandal two weeks ago.Although Morris has been the most outspoken of the two on these issues prior to their Q&A, it may be

The Academy of Country Music is sticking with its successful formula for a mid-pandemic awards show.

Chris Willman Music WriterIf the fix isn’t broke, don’t fix it.

© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine From Kelly Clarkson to James Corden, talk show hosts have some of the most epic private homes of all time. Kelly recently listed her house in Tennessee for $7.

Taylor Swift is beginning the process of releasing the re-recorded versions of her albums, and she’s explaining why she’s starting with her 2008 album, Fearless.

© @Copyright HELLO! Hello! Magazine Dolly Parton has lived in the same home in Brentwood, Nashville, since purchasing it in 1999 for $400,000. She shares it with her husband, Carl Dean, and according to the Kiwi Report, it features its own tennis court, swimming pool, chapel and a farm.