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CMA’s Reigning Entertainer of the Year Keith Urban: ‘I Love Entertaining’

Keith Urban is the CMA’s reigning Entertainer of the Year and he’s nominated for the honor once again at the CMAs which take place this week. Last year (2018), Keith…

CMA's Reigning Entertainer of the Year Keith Urban: 'I Love Entertaining'
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Keith Urban is the CMA's reigning Entertainer of the Year and he's nominated for the honor once again at the CMAs which take place this week.

Last year (2018), Keith could not have been more happy backstage after his big win. He said, "It’s an indescribable feeling to get that tonight, because I love playing, I love entertaining, I love putting on shows. I started playing guitar when I was six, so playing, and I came up playing in the clubs – four hours a night, five hours a night, five nights a week. I wasn’t writing songs."

He added, "I was just schlepping my gear and playing cover tunes and learning my craft. To get to play three or four hours a night of original material is the most extraordinary feeling.”

The CMA Awards will air live from Nashville on November 13th at 7pm CT on ABC.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.