Trisha Yearwood says she is feeling positively blessed after receiving the inaugural June Carter Money Award on the 2024 CMT Music Awards and acting on stage throughout the present.
Speaking with ET’s Cassie DiLaura backstage from the Moody Heart in Austin, Texas, the 59-year-old singer shared her gratitude for the nice and cozy welcome from the gang who witnessed the world premiere of “Put It In a Tune,” which she described as “surreal.”
“It is type of like a kind of moments the place I will must go residence and watch the present now and see the efficiency,” she stated of getting a see-it-to-believe-it expertise on stage. “However simply the love within the room, it felt so good. It was simply so cool.”
The opposite “surreal” second of the evening for Yearwood got here when she was handed the CMT’s brand-new humanitarian award by her longtime pal, Jane Seymour. In her easy and hilarious speech, she thanked the voting physique for the distinction and humbly accepted.
“I’ve by no means gotten an award like this, I’ll say, it is good to know you received earlier than you bought right here,” she joked. “I do not assume anybody who’s ever obtained a humanitarian award thinks they deserve it and that’s completely monitoring proper now.”
Simply then, one particular person within the viewers loudly shouted again on the nation singer, “You deserve it,” inflicting her to shortly reply, “Nicely, you are very candy.”
Yearwood and her husband, Garth Brooks, have each been notable figures to work with Habitat For Humanity to rebuild properties in areas devastated by pure disasters, together with Haiti and New Orleans. Each singers have been named Habitat Humanitarians by the group for his or her work with the trigger.
In an interview with the nonprofit, Yearwood stated that she discovered it to be one of the crucial rewarding issues she has ever achieved.
“There’s something that strikes you on each construct you do. Some of the transferring experiences is our journey to Haiti. The primary time we went was over a 12 months after the earthquake,” she stated. I’ve by no means in my life seen the sorts of situations that folks have been residing in. As a result of Haiti was in such want, we went again the subsequent 12 months and bought to go to the homes that we had constructed the earlier 12 months.”
She added, “The owners have been doing nice. They’d gardens. You might simply see the distinction, particularly of their eyes. You might see of their faces the enjoyment of homeownership.”
When she is just not constructing homes alongside her rockstar husband, she is build up a brand new report for her followers to take pleasure in. The stepmom of three tells ET that she has been onerous at work on getting her album collectively and it is virtually right here for everybody to take pleasure in.
“I have been doing lots of writing and so I am simply going to place it on the market,” she stated. “And each time I write one other track I am like properly perhaps that is going to be on the report, so we’ll see.”
One observe that’s for certain making the lower is “Put It In a Tune” which debuted Sunday to rave evaluations and viewers applause contained in the Texas venue the place the CMT Music Awards have been held. Instantly after her reside efficiency, Rolling Stone hailed the one as “an instantaneous basic.”
Brooks, 62, was unable to make it to the awards present Sunday night however Yearwood advised ET that he certainly was at residence watching and cheering her on nonetheless. Whereas she hadn’t gotten the chance to test her telephone but, she was additionally assured he was blowing it up together with his love and assist from afar.
“He’ll ship me lots of hearts,” she stated. “And he already advised me earlier than I went out, he stated. ‘I am actually pleased with you.'”
Yearwood additionally shared that whereas celebrating in a room along with her friends is actually enjoyable, she was extra excited to get on the highway and head residence to her hubby of practically 20 years.
“I am going residence to see my husband, that is how I am celebrating,” she stated, including that she could not wait to seize a chunk to eat, too. “I’ve not eaten as we speak so I am excited. It is taking place!”
Hosted by Kelsea Ballerini, the 2024 CMT Music Awards takes place on the Moody Heart in Austin, Texas on Sunday, April 7, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. The present will air on CBS and also will be accessible to stream reside and on demand through Paramount+
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