CMA Awards
The 52nd CMA Awards took place at Nashville’s
Bridgestone Arena November 14 with Chris Stapleton
effectively clearing up once again with Single, Song,
and Male Vocalist awards going his way. Garth Brooks
(right) presented a never-before-heard song for wife
Trisha Yearwood, and against the odds Kacey Musgraves
snatched the Album of the Year award for her Golden
Hour release. The coveted Entertainer of the Year went
to Keith Urban. The full list of winners is below and more
from the CMA Awards can be found elsewhwere in this
issue.
Entertainer of the Year: Keith Urban
Album of the Year: Golden Hour, Kacey Musgraves
Single of the Year: Broken Halos, Chris Stapleton
Song of the Year: Broken Halos, Chris Stapleton
Male Vocalist of the Year: Chris Stapleton
Female Vocalist of the Year: Carrie Underwood
New Artist of the Year: Luke Combs
Vocal Duo of the Year: Brothers Osborne
Vocal Group of the Year: Old Dominion
Music Video of the Year: Marry Me, Thomas Rhett
Musical Event of the Year: Everything’s Gonna Be Alright,
David Lee Murphy with Kenny Chesney
Musician of the Year: Mac McAnally, guitar
Baby Showers
Last spring Morgane and Chris Stapleton became
parents of twin boys - Macon and Samuel -
and already dad’s disclosing the couple are
anticipating yet another baby in the coming year!
This will give them a total of five youngsters.
Not to be outdone, singer-actress Jana Kramer
and hubby Mike Caussin, former Washington
Redskin football player, expect their second baby,
a boy, during November. Fans know the couple
split, but then reconciled: “He’s really excited
about having another baby and just being really
present and there for me, because he wasn’t
that way with (daughter) Jolie. We know that our
relationship is really important to continue to work
on.” The Why Ya Wanna hitmaker, now 34, also
has a new film “Support the Girls” being released.
Come
What May
Can’t blame award-winning music
man Keith Urban for beaming so
proudly these days, considering the
amazing resurgence of his actress-
wife of 12 years, Nicole Kidman,
thanks to terrific thespic talents
she’s rendered in a pair of current
flicks: “Destroyer” and “Boy Erased.” Remember she won a best actress Oscar in 2003,
for “The Hours,” portraying Virginia Woolf, making her the first Australian actress
to win Hollywood’s top honor. In “Destroyer,” she’s a weary detective troubled by an
unsolved case from two decades back, and along with fellow Aussie Russell Crowe
plays parents of a closeted son (Lucas Hedges) they force into a gay conversion
program in “Boy Erased.” Reviews rave about both performances and the question is
which might earn her yet another Oscar? Oddly enough, her next release in December
has her playing Queen Atlanna, a comic book character in the DC superhero flick
“Aquaman”! That’s one daughters Sunday and Faith might dig. She’s determined,
however, to yet be a triple threat, having already added backing vocals to hubby
Keith’s intense ballad Female”last year. Don’t laugh, as she and Ewan McGregor cut
a duet, Come What May, that became the eighth highest selling single for an Aussie
in 2001; and her second single, a 2002 cover of the Nancy and Frank Sinatra novelty
number Somethin’ Stupid, topped music charts in Italy, New Zealand, Portugal and
England. In 2009 for Rob Marshall’s movie musical “Nine,” she’s heard singing
Unusual Way. So what’s really next for Nashville’s resident movie star?
DECEMBER 2018 - cmp 5