Maren Morris Felt a ‘Baby Kick’ Before Her CMA Performance
Maren Morris took home the coveted Album of the Year honor for Girl, but it was her baby boy that made mom take notice just before she performed tonight at the…
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Maren Morris took home the coveted Album of the Year honor for Girl, but it was her baby boy that made mom take notice just before she performed tonight at the CMA Awards.
She told us backstage, "Seconds before the curtain lifted and I was gonna do my performance tonight, he started kicking and so it worked out; he's my good luck charm."
As for impending parenthood, Morris said she has gotten advice from Carrie Underwood and Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott about making road life work with a baby.
And she and her husband Ryan Hurd, she shared, "Ryan and I are scared s---less, but we're excited."
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.
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