Carrie Underwood became the first woman since 2001 to be named ACM entertainer of the year – and only the 7th female to win the Academy of Country Music's top honor since it was first handed out in 1970.
"I've had a lot of good moments in the last four years. This one takes the cake!" said a teary-eyed Underwood, her voice cracking onstage Sunday at the 44th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards. "I don't know what to say! I got nothing." But she did remember one important person: Raising her trophy, she yelled, "Mike, baby, I wish you were here!" in a shout-out to her boyfriend, Ottawa Senators hockey player Mike Fisher.
Underwood also took home the award for top female vocalist, a repeat of last year's win.
Earlier at the Las Vegas show, which aired on CBS, fellow young blonde phenom Taylor Swift beat out George Strait, Jamey Johnson, Montgomery Gentry and Underwood for album of the year for Fearless. "I think a lot of people who know me know that if I talk to you for more than five minutes, I'm probably going to write a song about you, so that being said I'd like to thank all the characters in my songs: Abigail, Hey Stephen, Tim McGraw and Romeo,” the 19-year-old said.
Brad Paisley also had something to celebrate. For the third year in a row, the singer accepted the honor of top male vocalist, this time from his home in Tennessee, where he and wife Kimberly Williams-Paisley were expecting their second child, due any day.
"As you can see, we had the baby!" Paisley joked, pointing to the pal sitting next to him, Little Jimmy Dickens – who started his career in the 1930s. "Kind of a Benjamin Button thing!" Thanking the crowd, Paisley said he wished he could be in Vegas for the show, but "I didn't want to take the chance of missing the birth of our next child."
Source: (People.com)
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