Keith City might be honoured with the Triple Crown Award at this 12 months’s Academy of Nation Music Awards.
Keith City to obtain Triple Crown at 2025 Academy of Nation Music Awards
The 57-year-old singer will grow to be the primary star to be handed such an accolade reside on the ACM stage since Carrie Underwood was awarded the Triple Crown Award in 2010.
Following the announcement, he stated: “I got here midway around the globe to reside in Nashville. “It was my dream since I used to be seven years outdated. All I ever wished to do was write songs, attempt to get them recorded, attempt to get them on the radio, and now get them on streaming.
“And hopefully individuals like them and need to come and see me reside. That’s by no means modified.”
Brothers Osborne, Chris Stapleton and Megan Moroney will make tribute performances to the star on the Might eighth occasion, on the Ford Heart at The Star in Frisco, Texas, in honour of his achievement.
Stars can solely obtain the ACM Awards’ Triple Crown Award if they’ve gained the highest three prizes on the ceremony.
City has performed so after he gained Prime New Male Vocalist in 2001, Male Vocalist of the Yr in 2005 and 2006, and he scooped the Entertainer of the Yr accolade in 2019.
Keith admitted it did not really feel “actual” when he was first nominated for Academy of Nation Music Awards.
He added: “I bear in mind the primary time seeing my identify within the nominees and it felt like once you go to the theme park and you may get your image taken and placed on the entrance of a faux Time Journal as a memento. I felt like that.
“It wasn’t actual. It had that surreal high quality.”
Keith lastly scooped the Entertainer of the Yr prize six years in the past, after he was beforehand nominated and misplaced out on eight events.
The star admitted he felt “content material and grateful” to obtain a nod, however when he did land the elusive accolade it was a “great blessing”.
He stated: “I might simply rejoice the nomination, not likely considering I’m going to win and I’m good with that. I used to be very content material and grateful.
“And so [to win] – and in hindsight, now, for it to occur the 12 months earlier than COVID – was notably a beautiful blessing as a result of it was an enormous evening, an enviornment full of individuals celebrating.”
