Tonight on ABC, the Country Music Association will hand out the CMA Awards to country music’s biggest names. At the top of the list — a Lifetime Achievement Award for Dolly Parton. Her name will be added to the list of previous recipients including Willie Nelson (2012), Kenny Rogers (2013) and Johnny Cash (2015).
The CMA Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to “an iconic artist who has attained the highest degree of recognition in Country Music… an artist who has achieved both national and international prominence and stature through concert performances, humanitarian efforts, philanthropy, record sales and public representation at the highest level.”
Dolly, the embodiment of this award, has been a singer and songwriter since the early 1950s and is also an actress, writer, humanitarian and businesswoman. She is the most decorated female country artist of all time, with 25 songs that have reached #1 on the Billboard Country Charts, 41 Top 10 country albums and 110 charted singles. She has been nominated for 46 Grammys and won eight. She has also received two Academy Award nominations, 10 Country Music Association Awards, seven Academy of Country Music Awards and three American Music Awards.
The CMA Awards Turn 50 This Year
The CMA Awards are celebrating their 50th anniversary. And to mark the occasion they made a video featuring 29 of the biggest names in country music. The Joseph Kahn directed piece features a mashup of three songs — “Take Me Home, Country Roads” by John Denver, “On the Road Again” by Willie Nelson and Dolly’s “I Will Always Love You.”
Don’t miss the CMA Awards, hosted by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, tonight at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
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Watch Dolly’s official Hollywood Walk of Fame Star ceremony from 1984. MediaMine’s library also features Walk of Fame ceremonies of CMA nominees Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw and Rascal Flatts.
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