Luke Bryan is once again nominated for the CMA Entertainer of the Year award, which he has won twice before in 2014 and 2015.
The Georgia native explains winning his first CMA Entertainer of the Year award was life-altering. “Winning my first CMA Entertainer of the Year award is something that I’ll never forget. It’s all of those memories of everything it took to get here and all the sacrifices and all the honkytonks and the late-night concerts and moving to Nashville and leaving your family and your friends, it all came together on that night,” says Luke. “To get that from your peers of fellow country music artists was pretty amazing. You never forget it. You forever feel vindicated and you feel appreciated and you feel like you’re a member of a club, and you know no matter how long you live that you left an indelible mark on this industry based on how you go about it, how you entertain and perform.”
As a matter of fact, his first CMA Entertainer award was his first ever CMA Award he’d ever won.
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The 51st Annual CMA Awards, hosted by Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley, will air live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena November 8th at 8pm ET on ABC.
Luke is currently sitting inside the Top 10 with his latest song, “Light It Up,” which is the first release from his upcoming album, What Makes You Country.
Luke has a handful of tour dates left on the books. He’ll take his Huntin’, Fishin’ and Lovin’ Every Day Tour to Concord, California on November 2nd, followed by dates in Wheatland, California November 3rd and Mountain View, California on November 4th.
Audio / Luke Bryan say winning his first CMA Entertainer of the Year award changed his life.
DownloadLuke Bryan (winning 1st CMA Entertainer of the Year) OC: …big deal for me. :55
“Definitely looking back and winning my first CMA Entertainer of the Year award is something that I’ll never forget. It’s all of those memories of everything it took to get here and all the sacrifices and all the honkytonks and the late-night concerts and moving to Nashville and leaving your family and your friends, it all came together on that night. To get that from your peers of fellow country music artists was pretty amazing. You never forget it. You forever feel vindicated and you feel appreciated and you feel like you’re a member of a club, and you know no matter how long you live that you left an indelible mark on this industry based on how you go about it, how you entertain and perform. It was a big deal for me.”
Audio / Backstage in the pressroom after winning the CMA Entertainer of the Year Award in 2014, Luke Bryan said he was so humbled and overwhelmed the CMA voters felt he had earned it.
DownloadLuke Bryan (CMA Entertainer win) OC: …hard to describe. 1:05
“To try to understand you would win your first CMA Award and it’s the Entertainer of the Year…I have longed and sought after many years to get one of these in my hands. To get the respect of the CMA Board and all of its voters and win this is a ginormous deal, something I could not express out on stage when I was winning it, but I can’t help but in the back of my mind want some of that respect from this body of people. So, I’m just really humbled. I think about just the hard work it took to get here, and I’m really just so blessed that this is from the CMA and I’ll never take a second of it for granted. I, honestly from the bottom of my heart, I go out on stage every night and try to sing it and perform it and entertain it like it’s my last and now, it’s like, Whew! It’s hard to describe.”
