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Twenty-eight years ago today (Sept. 29, 1993), Vince Gill was doing plenty of celebrating. The singer took home five trophies at the 27th annual CMA Awards, including Entertainer of the Year, making Gill the night's biggest winner.Along with Entertainer of the Year, Gill's awards during the evening included Male Vocalist of the Year, Vocal Event of the Year (as part of George Jones' "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair"), Album of the Year and Song of the Year. The Song of the Year honor was for "I Still Believe in...

Coolio, whose Nineties music was a staple on radio, a favorite on MTV, and included the hit “Gangsta’s Paradise,” died Wednesday at the age of 59. Coolio’s manager, Jarez Posey, confirmed the rapper’s death to Rolling Stone. A cause of death was not immediately available. Born Artis Leon Ivey Jr. in 1963, he went to school in Compton, California and attended Compton Community College. He cut his first single in the late 1980s, “Watcha Gonna Do,” a song that was played locally on a hip-hop station. He later connected with WC and...

Aging is inevitable, and Shania Twain is choosing to embrace it. The 57-year-old recently posed topless for the artwork promoting her new single "Waking Up Dreaming.""I styled that photograph myself," she tells People. "It was all about taking off the bra, taking off the shirt, tying the shirt around my waist.""This is a statement of being comfortable in my own skin and just being really myself," she adds.The photo shows Shania wearing knee-high stiletto boots, a white button-up shirt tied around her waist, topped off with earrings and a cowboy...

Taylor Hawkins Tribute Hawkins spent 18 months in Canadian singer's touring band before joining Dave Grohl and company Alanis Morissette helped the Foo Fighters pay honor to Taylor Hawkins — her drummer before he joined Dave Grohl and company — Tuesday night at the Los Angeles tribute concert for Hawkins. Backed by the Foo Fighters along with Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith on drums, Morissette delivered “You Oughta Know,” which Hawkins had performed countless times during his 18-month stint as a member of Morissette’s mid-Nineties touring unit. “The second...

By the fall of 1991, Garth Brooks had notched six No. 1 singles and two Top 5 albums, as well as a slew of ACM and CMA Awards — all in a little over two years. His third studio album, Ropin' the Wind, however, made him a Billboard chart record-setter.For the chart week dated Sept. 28, 1991, Brooks' Ropin' the Wind debuted at No. 1 on not only the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, but also on the all-genre Billboard 200. On the latter, Metallica (also known as The Black Album) by the rock band of the same...

So Close But So Far Away “It’s my birthday and Kanye West is playing tracks we made,” Blake wrote on Twitter, confirming he produced all three of the teaser songs the rapper shared Kanye West stopped into a London Fashion Week afterparty to tease a collection of unreleased songs, including one that some fans thought sampled the 2016 James Blake deep cut “Always.” The latter artist took time out from celebrating his birthday to clarify on Twitter that the previewed track, which he produced himself, is entirely new. “It’s my...

Luke Bryan will continue to "Kick the Dust Up" in Las Vegas into 2023: He just announced another new leg of dates for his Luke Bryan: Vegas residency at the city's Resorts World Theatre, beginning in February.With 12 new dates at the beginning of the year, Bryan will continue a show that he says provides a more intimate connection with the crowd than the amphitheater and stadiums that normally make up the bulk of his performance venues on tour.“I love doing these headlining shows in Vegas because the intimate room...

A judge in Spain ordered Shakira to face charges of tax fraud in court Tuesday, Sept. 27, according to The Associated Press.  The pop star will face six counts of tax fraud, with prosecutors alleging in that she failed to pay €14.5 million (about $13.9 million) in income tax between 2012 and 2014. A trial date has not yet been set. Prosecutors are seeking a hefty punishment for Shakira, saying back in July that the Colombian singer should get eight years in prison, plus a €20 million fine, if convicted....

Eighteen years ago today, on Sept. 27, 2003, Dierks Bentley earned his first No. 1 hit, with his debut single, "What Was I Thinkin'."Bentley co-wrote "What Was I Thinkin'," which appears on his eponymously titled freshman album, with songwriter Deric Ruttan and his record producer and frequent collaborator, Brett Beavers. With lines such as, "She snuck out one night and met me by the front gate / Her daddy came out, wavin' that 12-gauge / We tore out the drive, he peppered my tailgate / What was I thinkin'?" Bentley...

In the Zone The singer also performed his new single “Forget Me" as well as “Before You Go,” “Someone You Loved,” and “Hold Me While You Wait" Lewis Capaldi reimagined the classic Britney Spears In The Zone single “Everytime” during a recent set of performances recorded for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge series. At London’s Hammersmith Club, the singer was bolstered by a pianist and a string section complete with a cellist and multiple violinists to transform the song into the kind of ballad he’s come to be known for....

Jon Pardi and his wife Summer recently announced that they're expecting their first child, and the singer couldn't be more ready for the adventure that lays ahead — but back when his wife first told him the news, it took him a minute to figure out what she was trying to say.Summer planned the special surprise around the couple's brand-new boat: She had printed out a "Baby on Board" sticker to put on the back of the boat, along with a positive pregnancy test. But even with those helpful hints,...

Halftime Wisdom “I can't wait to see what she's going to do,” rapper who performed this year's event says Rihanna is officially set to perform the Super Bowl LVII halftime show in Glendale, Arizona in 2023, and shortly after the news broke on Sunday, this year’s headliner and self-proclaimed Rihanna “super fan” Dr. Dre offered the pop star some advice. “Put the right people around you, and have fun,” the Beats by Dre co-founder told Apple Music 1 host Ebro Darden. “That’s basically what it is, making sure you have...

New Fox series Monarch -- which stars Trace Adkins opposite Susan Sarandon -- already features a number of high profile country cameos, with the likes of Shania Twain, Little Big Town, Tanya Tucker and Martina McBride all making appearances in the first season. Plus, the show's theme song, "The Card You Gamble," was recorded by country-leaning singer-songwriter Caitlyn Smith.But if Adkins made the casting decisions, the singer says there's one more familiar country face he would add to the lineup. "I think we should bring Blake Shelton, let him play...