Backstage Country

LISTEN LIVE

Carly Pearce and Lee Brice Win CMA’s Musical Event For 2020

Carly Pearce and Lee Brice have won the CMA for Musical Event of the Year for their song “I Hope You’re Happy Now.” Carly heard the news while doing interviews…

Carly Pearce and Lee Brice Win CMA's Musical Event For 2020
Jason Kempin/Getty Images

Carly Pearce and Lee Brice have won the CMA for Musical Event of the Year for their song "I Hope You're Happy Now." Carly heard the news while doing interviews this morning.

She posted to Instagram along with a video of her reaction, "GUYS I WAS SITTING DOING INTERVIEWS AND GOT THE NEWS THAT @leebrice AND I WON MUSICAL EVENT OF THE YEAR. This was the moment I found out as I sobbed on the phone in my pjs. Thank you, thank you, thank you. In a year that started as the hardest I’ve ever experienced, YALL are helping me see the big, bright, BEAUTIFUL light at the end of the tunnel. #cmaawards #ihopeyourehappynow."

Meanwhile, Lee Brice also got the good news this morning. In quarantine with COVID he posted, "Well this is pretty cool news to wake up to!! Thank you @cma!!"

Carly Pearce

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.