Carrie Underwood has been nominated for two Gospel Music Association Dove Awards for her critically-acclaimed album of gospel hymns, My Savior. The album is nominated for Bluegrass/Country/Roots Album of the Year and her duet with gospel superstar CeCe Winans, “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” is nominated for Inspirational Recorded Song of the Year.
I’m honored and excited to be nominated for the #DoveAwards with the legendary @cecewinans! To my friend, CeCe, congrats on all of your well-deserved nominations including Gospel Artist of the Year!!!
Here’s a look behind the scenes… https://t.co/2db4DVjCfM pic.twitter.com/yAcsnjeMwP
— Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) August 12, 2021
My Savior was released this past March. The album debuted #1 on the Billboard Country chart, making it her ninth consecutive release to do so, extending her record as the only artist to accomplish that feat with all nine of her album releases from the beginning of her career. The album was brought to life with a virtual livestreamed event from the legendary Ryman Auditorium on Easter Sunday which raised over $112,000 for Save the Children. The My Savior: LIVE From The Ryman concert DVD and television special were released this month.
“It should be like a warm hug, and I feel like there’s so many people that are like me that kind of long for that,” Carrie has said about the album. “You think back to that sense of home and your church that you grew up in with the pews. I mean it’s just one of those things that it just feels like home. And after a year like last year, I feel like people are definitely searching. A lot of people were thrown out of their daily routines and trying to figure life out and be more introspective or kind of slow down. We were all forced to slow down.”
Underwood recently announced the upcoming release of her album My Gift (Special Edition) on CD/digital September 24th, and on vinyl November 5, featuring three additional tracks. Initially released September 25, 2020, Underwood’s first-ever Christmas album, My Gift, debuted #1 across multiple global charts, including Billboard’s Country, Christian and Holiday album charts.
The 52nd Annual GMA Dove Awards will be held live and in-person on Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at Lipscomb University’s Allen Arena in Nashville, and will be broadcast worldwide on Friday, October 22nd, 2021 through TBN.
Audio / Carrie Underwood talks about her album, My Savior, and says listening to these hymns feels like home.
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“These particular songs for My Savior, you know, I grew up singing these in church and my church that we go to right now they play a lot of very contemporary Christian songs, praise and worship songs, and it’s great. But every once in a while, they’ll kind of throw in like a chorus or something of some hymn that I grew up with and there’s an immediate sense of home when I hear that. And that’s kind of where I was at when we were recording this. It should be like a warm hug, and I feel like there’s so many people that are like me that kind of long for that. You think back to that sense of home and your church that you grew up in with the pews. I mean it’s just one of those things that it just feels like home. And after a year like last year, I feel like people are definitely searching. A lot of people were thrown out of their daily routines and trying to figure life out and be more introspective or kind of slow down. We were all forced to slow down.”
