This yr’s ACM Awards have been crammed with some wonderful and actually efficient cross-genre performances — and one of the crucial memorable was Chris Stapleton’s shock stay collaboration with Dua Lipa.
ET’s Rachel Smith spoke with Chris and his spouse, Morgane Stapleton, backstage after the present, and the nation crooner defined how Dua “threw herself into the combination” and made the entire duet come collectively.
“It was her concept, so far as I do know. They sort of known as us up and stated, ‘Hey, she wish to do that.’ I used to be like, ‘Are you certain?’ And he or she’s like, ‘Yeah!'” Chris recalled. “So we obtained on the telephone and talked about it and labored on it a little bit bit.”
The 28-year-old “Dance the Night time” singer shocked the gang at Ford Heart at The Star in Frisco, Texas, on Thursday, when she took the stage in an unannounced look and belted out the start of Chris’s “Suppose I am in Love With You.”
Chris, 46, joined in on the quantity, and the pair harmonized their duet fantastically, creating one of many highlights of the entire night time.
“We actually solely sort of put collectively what we did like two days in the past,” Chris revealed. “So it was sort of a whirlwind of a factor to do — but it surely was superior.”
ET additionally spoke with Dua backstage after the efficiency, and she or he defined why she’d reached out within the first place.
“It was a giant dream of mine to work with Chris,” she shared, “and to have it occur tonight on the stage was actually particular.”
“I am a giant, large Chris Stapleton fan, that is for certain, and I really like nation music,” she added. “I really like the storytelling, I really like the fervour, and it was simply so lovely to have the ability to dive into that world a little bit bit simply sort of see it first hand. It was actually particular.”
The 59th annual Academy of Nation Music Awards streams stay Could 16 on Prime Video. Take a look at all of the nominees and the full winners checklist.
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