Teen Country Singer Kenadi Dodds Covers Thomas Rhett’s ‘Be A Light’ For ‘AGT’ Semifinals

Dolly Parton in solidarity with Davis.The Texan native began his career working as a songwriter for Elvis Presley in 1969.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Ashley McBryde, Dan + Shay, Kelsea Ballerini, Luke Combs, Sam Hunt and Thomas Rhett top the 2020 CMT Music Awards nominations with three each.In nominations announced Wednesday for the pandemic-delayed show, 14 videos are vying for the top prize of video of the year.

Roberta Battaglia and Kenadi Dodds may not have won Wednesday’s “America’s Got Talent” final but they still got the chance to sing with two big musicians.

CMT on Wednesday unveiled the nominations for the 2020 CMT Music Awards, with Ashley McBryde, Dan + Shay, Kelsea Ballerini, Luke Combs, Sam Hunt and Thomas Rhett leading the nominees with three each. Other artists with multiple nominations include Blanco Brown, Carrie Underwood, Gabby Barrett, Kane Brown, Little Big Town, Miranda Lambert, Old Dominion and The Chicks, who landed their first CMT nomination since 2007.

Thomas Rhett is teaching his daughter, Willa, to «embrace who you are.» In an interview with ET's Nischelle Turner, the «Die a Happy Man» singer discussed how he and wife Lauren Akins are raising their Black daughter, and having «open conversations» about their similarities and differences. «Willa Gray is one of the smartest that I've ever met,» Rhett gushed of his 4-year-old daughter, who he and Akins adopted from Uganda in 2017, just months before welcoming their first biological daughter,

Thomas Rhett, Carrie Underwood, and Luke Combs were the big winners at the almost virtual Academy of Country Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee on Wednesday night (September 16, 2020).Rhett and Underwood were both named Entertainer of the Year at the close of the event, which featured a mix of live, virtual and pre-taped segments.Rhett’s prize was his second – he also picked up the Video of the Year gong at a pre-ceremony prizegiving at the beginning of the week.Combs also doubled up with the

Chris Willman Music WriterCountry singer Tyler Childers has released a six-minute video statement in which he urges fans, particularly those who share his Appalachian roots, to empathize with the anger and despair being expressed by the Black community in the wake of a wave of deaths at the hands of police.He says he reluctantly recorded the speech as a way of contextualizing the title track of his new album, “Long Violent History,” which received an unpromoted, surprise release Friday.

Thomas Rhett credits his wife, Lauren Akins, with helping him get through the stress of the coronavirus quarantine.“Honestly it’s been such a blessing in disguise this whole year,” Rhett, 30, told reporters at the Academy of Country Music Awards 2020 on Wednesday, September 16.The “Die a Happy Man” singer, who took home the ACM Award for Video of the Year and tied for Entertainer for the Year with Carrie Underwood, revealed he panicked when the quarantine began.

There was a shocker at the end of the 55th ACM Awards, the first tie for entertainer of the year (or any major category, for that matter) in the show’s history. The co-winners were Carrie Underwood, winning in the category for the third time, and Thomas Rhett, winning in the category for the first time.Underwood is the first woman in ACM history to win entertainer of the year three times.

Carrie Underwood and Thomas Rhett for entertainer of the year.While the award is a hallowed one among country musicians and fans alike, some fans weren’t terribly pleased to see it split between the two crooners.“Of course they had to make the ACM Awards Entertainer a Tie and make sure a man still won, couldn’t let a well deserving, hard working woman have it this year on her own,” said one viewer on Twitter. “Over this s–t.”“ACM Awards with a TIE for Entertainer of the Year?! Participation

Chris Willman Music WriterCarrie Underwood opened her acceptance speech for the Academy of Country Music’s 2020 entertainer of the year prize with a pleased sigh of a statement: “2020, man.”Her slightly quizzical exultation had to do with the fact that she had tied with Thomas Rhett for the ACM Awards’ top prize, proving that, for her at least, not all the weirdnesses of this year are bad weirdnesses.“I am more than happy to share this with Thomas Rhett,” she said in her speech, after

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The Academy of Country Music Awards left fans stunned when, for the first time in its history, the evening ended in a tie between Carrie Underwood and Thomas Rhett for entertainer of the year. While the award is a hallowed one among country musicians and fans alike, some fans weren't terribly pleased to see it split between the two crooners.

Carrie Underwood thinks her historic ACM Entertainer of the Year Award tie with Thomas Rhett is totally 2020 — but he couldn't be more shocked. «My heart is just racing so hard right now. I just saw Carrie in the hallway, actually, and I don't know what to say,» Rhett told ET's Rachel Smith backstage after host Keith Urban announced the pair's big wins on Wednesday night.

For the first time ever, there has been a tie in the Entertainer of the Year category at the ACM Awards!

And the Entertainer of the Year award goes to… two people! In a surprise twist that even threw host Keith Urban for a loop, the big, final category of the 2020 ACM Awards was a tie!