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CMA Awards 2009

CMA Awards 2009 : Entertainer of the Year Nominee List and Predictions

The 2009 Country Music Association (CMA) Awards show is set to air this evening on ABC at 8/7 Central. Superstars Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood will emcee the big event, no doubt providing numerous nuggets of good humor throughout. The 2009 CMA nominee list for Entertainer of the Year is stuffed with talent from Swift and Paisley to longtime mega-successful crooner George Strait. So who’s been nominated for the Entertainer of the Year CMA award and who will take it home tonight? Here’s the full listing and some educated predictions.

The 2009 CMA Award nominees for the prestigious and highly coveted Entertainer of the Year award, which denotes the best of the best in country music, are Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley, George Strait, Taylor Swift and Keith Urban.

George Strait is a perennial nominee for the CMA for Entertainer of the Year, although he hasn’t taken home the award in nearly two decades. He is currently riding the wave of being named Artist of the Decade at this year’s Academy of Country Music Awards, so he’ll definitely be in contention for the CMA, if only for sentimental reasons.
Keith Urban swept the Entertainer of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year CMA Awards in 2005 and won the latter again in 2006. He’s enjoyed his most recent success with Start a Band, a 2009 collaborative effort with Brad Paisley. Other than that and his good looks, Urban seems an unlikely winner of the 2009 Entertainer of the Year CMA award. The accomplishments just aren’t there.

Brad Paisley has been a CMA winners’ list fixture since he won the Horizon Award back in 2000. The reigining Male Vocalist of the Year has released an album a year for the last five years, demonstrating a staying-power that most musicians can’t match. Paisley isn’t at the tippy top of my list, but he has a good shot at winning the 2009 CMA for Entertainer of the Year.

taken from : http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2380864/cma_awards_2009_entertainer_of_the.html?cat=33

write by : Sherry W

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