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More American Idol Stars Set to Perform at AMAs
Originally posted 10/23/2009 01:50PM
The American Music Awards are as smitten with American Idol as everyone else.
Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood and Daughtry have been added to the schedule of performers for the 37th annual awards, airing live Nov. 22 on ABC. They join fellow Idol alum Adam Lambert, who was announced earlier as a performer.
"American Idol continually produces great talent, and we are looking forward to hosting Kelly, Carrie, Daughtry and Adam. It's a great fit for the AMAs," said producer Larry Klein.
Other performers on the show, to be held at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, will include Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Lopez and the Black Eyed Peas.
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Mike Fisher: No Serenades for Carrie Underwood
Originally posted 10/22/2009 06:05AM
It's safe to say NHL star Mike Fisher didn't woo his famous girlfriend, country singer Carrie Underwood, with a song.
"I like to sing," the Ottawa Senators player tells The Sens Show, a Web news program for his team. "[But] when I try to sing some of her songs, she just laughs!"
Fisher, 29, praises Underwood's talent, saying she's more than just a country crooner. "She can sing anything – I like it when she sings a good rock song," he says, adding that his favorite song of hers is something called "Temporary Home" from her new album, Play On, due out Nov. 3.
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Tim McGraw, Daughtry to Play CMA Awards
Originally posted 10/15/2009 09:00AM
Country will get a little bit rock and roll with the addition of Daughtry to the roster of performers for the 43rd annual Country Music Association Awards, the CMA tells PEOPLE.
The show – to air on ABC Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 8 p.m. ET – will feature a duet between the five-man band (fronted by 2006 American Idol finalist Chris Daughtry) and Vince Gill on "Tennessee Line," a track off Daughtry's most recent album that featured Gill on harmony vocals.
The CMA also announced that Tim McGraw will be returning to perform for the first time in four years.
Permalink | Filed Under: Music News, Carrie Underwood, Chris Daughtry, Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw
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Carrie Underwood Is Coming to Your TV Screen
Originally posted 10/13/2009 07:00AM
Christmas is coming a little early for Carrie Underwood: FOX is giving the American Idol fourth-season winner her own two-hour variety special.
The singer, 26, will host Brad Paisley, Dolly Parton and fellow Idol alum David Cook on her Dec. 7 show, tentatively titled Carrie Underwood: An All-Star Holiday Special, says the Hollywood Reporter.
After selling 10 million albums and winning four Grammys, Underwood, whose new album, Play On, is set for release Nov. 3, will sing on her TV special – hits, holiday classics and numbers from her new CD – as well as perform in comedy skits, says the trade paper.
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Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood to Perform at CMA Awards
Originally posted 10/05/2009 08:00AM
A power-packed lineup of country stars including Taylor Swift, Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley and Keith Urban will perform at the 43rd Annual CMA Awards show, the Country Music Association tells PEOPLE.com.
The list of stars – which also includes Brooks & Dunn (the vocal duo, winners of 14 CMAs, have announced they will be parting ways after a farewell tour next year), Reba McEntire, George Strait, Sugarland and first-time nominee Darius Rucker – is the first round of performers announced for the show.
Permalink | Filed Under: Music News, Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood
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Carrie Underwood Duets with Lucky 5th Grader
Originally posted 08/28/2009 01:55PM
There was no sign of back-to-school blues at Checotah High School Friday morning when Carrie Underwood surprised her Alma mater.
Underwood, 26, the Academy of Country Music's Entertainer of the Year, presented 31 instruments – ranging from an oboe to an electric guitar and worth nearly $120,000 – to fifth through twelfth grade music students in Checotah, Okla., schools.
"If everybody did stuff like this, not even on a grand scale, for whatever community they're a part of, the world would be awesome," Underwood told PEOPLE after the event. "Especially if you give to schools, because funding is getting cut left and right, the music and art programs are the first to go. To me those are some of the most important [programs]."
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POLL: Have a Hankerin' for a Crazy Country Match-Up?
Originally posted 08/28/2009 12:30PM
Who didn't get a kick out of Taylor Swift and T-Pain's hysterical opening sketch at this years CMT Awards? Well, it's part of a trend: Left and right country stars are pairing up with mainstream artists for what has proven to be spectacular entertainment.
"In Nashville working for a couple of days with Rascal Flatts and Carrie Underwood," Ne-Yo recently Tweeted. And earlier this month, Timbaland confessed to Radar online that he'd like to work with Swift. "I love her voice," he said, adding he'll make a collaboration happen.
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Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley to Co-Host CMAs
Originally posted 08/25/2009 04:00PM
Who better to host this year's Country Music Association's CMA Awards than last year's Male and Female Vocalist of the Year winners – who also served as the 2008 ceremony's emcees – Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood.
"Last time," remembers Paisley, "it was pretty late notice when we got word we were doing it, so we didn't necessarily prepare the same way then as we will this time. This time we have more advance time."
ABC will air this year's ceremony live from Nashville on Wednesday, Nov. 11.
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Carrie Underwood to Be Inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame
Originally posted 08/11/2009 11:20AM
Looks like Carrie Underwood can add a hometown honor to her long list of accomplishments. On Sept. 17, the four-time Grammy winner will return to Muskogee, Oklahoma – the city where she was born – to be inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.
Underwood, the Academy of Country Music's reigning Entertainer of the Year, has frequently spoken fondly about her Oklahoman roots. Raised on her parents' farm in the small town of Checotah, Underwood stayed in-state for college, graduating with a communications degree from Northeastern State University.
Underwood will be in good company in the Music Hall of Fame. Previous inductees include Vince Gill, Toby Keith, Merle Haggard and The All American Rejects.
– Steve Helling
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Carrie Underwood Grocery Shops in Sweats
Originally posted 04/10/2009 11:55AM
Carrie Underwood just took home the Entertainer of the Year Award at the ACMs, so what's it like for fans to meet her now?
"I think they're disappointed," Underwood says on the April 14 episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show. "I do my grocery shopping kind of late at night. There's nobody really there. I can probably wash the makeup and I'm in a ponytail, glasses, and my sweatpants at the grocery store, and people won't tell me, 'Are you Carrie Underwood?' They'll say, 'Wow, you look like Carrie Underwood.' Because Carrie Underwood wouldn't be at the Harris Teeter [at] 11:00 o'clock at night in her sweatpants."
The 26-year-old country star joins Kenny Chesney, Darius Rucker and Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles to perform and discuss their lives with Winfrey, dishing about everything from childhood dreams to their love lives.
"It's really strange," Underwood says of dating in Hollywood. "I mean, you're under a microscope, and even if you start – you're getting to know somebody, you just met them – they have you married off next week, you know what I mean? So it's a little difficult and it's a little difficult to know people's intentions."
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