Seven country icons, all of whom are former Entertainer of the Year winners, have joined the performance lineup for the 2016 CMA Awards. Alabama, Brooks & Dunn, Vince Gill, Alan Jackson, Reba McEntire, Charley Pride and George Strait will all perform at the 50th annual CMA Awards.

Together, the seven legends have received 375 CMA Awards nominations and won 94 times; Brooks & Dunn, Gill, McEntire and Pride are all former CMA Awards hosts as well.

 

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Shania Twain‘s new music really is coming soon she promises! After teasing new tunes for a number of years, at the 2016 CMT Artists of the Year ceremony she said that she is putting the finishing touches on her new songs. On the red carpet before the Artists of the Year show, at which Twain was named the 2016 Artist of a Lifetime, she shared that her new music will reflect her growth as an artist, from a childhood spent singing in bars to support her family to her record-setting country career. Twain admits that it has taken her a while to find her own voice, hence the delay in new material.

 

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October 24, 1991, was a big day for Garth Brooks. It was on that date, 25 years ago, that the singer’s No Fences album was recognized for selling 5 million copies the highest sales ever for a country artist at that time. No Fences, which was released in 1990, was Brooks’ second album for Capitol Records. At that time, no one, including Brooks, could have predicted how remarkable his career would become. The singer has sold more than 190 million records worldwide, has 19 No. 1 hits to his credit and has seven diamond-certified (sales in excess of 10 million units) albums.

 

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