Now that the 11th season has come to a close with Phillip Phillips as the ‘American Idol’ winner, it’s time to look forward at how each contestants career will unfold. Skylar Laine shows the most potential to be country’s next reality-television star-turned-Nashville-sensation.
If you caught Carrie Underwood‘s powerful performance of ‘Blown Away’ during the Billboard Music Awards 2012 on Sunday night, you know that some of her musical influences lie outside of the country genre. Although the ‘American Idol’ winner is a member of team country music, sometimes her powerhouse vocals point to a different era and genre entirely. Last night on the red carpet, Underwood caught up with MTV to talk about the passing of the Bee Gees’ Robin Gibb — and how he impacted her musical tastes.
With a wall of mechanical fans blowing hair all across her face, Carrie Underwood performed the title track from her new ‘Blown Away’ album at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday night. The country singer’s performance lacked the luminaries, exotic dancers and costumes many of the previous artists employed, but it lacked nothing in talent. She was as vocally strong as she’s ever been during a televised performance.
May 19, 2012 Next week at this time we'll be heading to Baton Rouge to enjoy the Bayou Country Superfest. The annual Memorial Day weekend at Tiger Stadium always features the hottest acts in country music and this year is no exception. From Rascal Flatts to Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood to Jason Aldean, you can't beat that!
May 16, 2012 Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher will do their first interview together on "Oprah's Next Chapter" this Sunday night on the OWN Network.
The wildly popular ‘Dancing with the Stars’ reality show is going country on Tuesday (May 15), with superstar Carrie Underwood scheduled to take the big stage to perform her latest Top 10 chart-climber, ‘Good Girl.’ A choreographed routine will accompany Underwood’s performance of the pop-country anthem.
It was a fun day in country music news. Martina McBride got nostalgic about her wedding day, and even poked fun at her chosen colors and husband’s hairstyle. Carrie Underwood‘s song ‘Good Girl’ got the toddler treatment, and readers went crazy about winning an autographed copy of Willie Nelson‘s new CD. One tragedy involved a country artist’s tour bus — find out who and how he’s doing now.
The last time Carrie Underwood visited the ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show,’ she got into a bit of hot water for calling her husband — Nashville Predators hockey star Mike Fisher — a hoarder. This morning (May 9), she stopped by ‘Ellen’ again, this time to chat about how her marriage has developed, as well as her ever-growing aspirations in the kitchen, and most importantly, her new LP ‘Blown Away.’
If there were any doubts about how down-to-earth Carrie Underwood is, they’ve been put to rest after her interview in the May issue of Glamour magazine. Underwood looks dashing on the magazine’s cover, donning a peachy-orange dress and giving the camera a playful smile. But inside the spread, the gorgeous country star reveals that despite her major success, she’s still just like ‘real people.’
May 1, 2012 Hunter Hayes will join Carrie Underwood on the "Blown Away" tour this summer!
