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The 53rd ACM Awards will air live at 8 tonight on CBS.
Country singer Lauren Alaina should be gliding on the red carpet going into tonight’s Academy of Country Music Awards.
She already has won the big award she was up for – New Female Vocalist of the Year – learning the news in a phone call that brought her to tears. Her idol, Reba McEntire, the show’s host, was on the line.
Later, on Instagram, Alaina gushed: “This is the best thing that has happened to me in my ‘McEntire’ life. Now that that’s out of the way oh my gosh. I won an AMC. AND @reba called to tell me.”
Alaina, a Rossville native and Season 10 “American Idol” runner-up, also is performing tonight, and she has the chance to share another trophy with her good friend and former Lakeview Middle School classmate Kane Brown. His “What Ifs,” for which Alaina sang backup, is nominated for Vocal Event of the Year.