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Garth Brooks Presidential Performance Makes ‘Chris Gaines’ Trend

As Garth Brooks made his own history singing “Amazing Grace” at the Presidential inauguration today (1/20) for President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, Garth’s one-time alter ego Chris Gaines…

Garth Brooks Presidential Performance Makes 'Chris Gaines' Trend
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As Garth Brooks made his own history singing "Amazing Grace" at the Presidential inauguration today (1/20) for President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, Garth's one-time alter ego Chris Gaines started trending on Twitter.

Many people started to tweet about Gaines and here are some of our favorites:

One of the best tweets involved Bernie Sanders, it read, "when you snagged a great seat for the Chris Gaines concert but Garth Brooks shows up instead."

Chris Gaines for those of you that may not know was an alter ego Garth created in the late 1990's to brand out and sing some hard rock music. He even created a whole persona, which at the time before Keith Urban became a superstar, read a lot like Urban's bio.

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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.