Dan + Shay At CMAs: Dan’s Beard Stays… For Now
Dan + Shay took home their first Vocal Duo of the Year award from the CMAs tonight.
Dan told us, “I don’t even feel like this is real. I feel like I’m living in a dream right now. We worked so hard on this music to be recognized by our peers is amazing. It feels just as good as the day we met.”
Shay added when asked about the duo’s pop success, including their recent collaboration with Justin Bieber, “We are not trying to chase anything, we are trying to tell a story with our music and the more people who hear it, that’s great with us.”
As for Dan’s ever-growing beard: “We’ve had pretty good luck since I was growing my hair out and my wife likes it so it’s all good.”
Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s.
Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.
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