The seven-time Grammy winner held a sold-out show at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on Friday night, bringing the house down in an epic performance for her The Cry Pretty Tour 360.
To kick-off the evening, Underwood brought invited her opening acts Runaway June and duo Maddie & Tae back on stage for a medley of female-created country hits, according to theTennessean.Their collaboration included hits fromDolly Parton,Reba McEntire,Shania Twainand more.
“I just wanna cry, that crowd was incredible, the band was great, just a great night,” Underwood said in a video shared onher Instagramafter the show. “I don’t even know what to say because I’m blown away.”
The “Before He Cheats” singer first auditioned for season 4 ofAmerican Idolin 2004, later winning the season in 2005. At her anniversary show, she encouraged her fans to always chase their dreams, no matter how unrealistic they may seem.
“When I was a little girl … if you had asked me what I wanted to do when I grew up, I would have told you I wanted to be a famous country music singer,” Underwood told fans on Friday night. “As I got older, dreams tend to give way to practicalities, so I started going to school to get a real job. One day there was an open door, and I walked through it and my life was changed forever.”
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“If there is something you guys out there are holding on to that just seems like too big of a dream or something too crazy,” she continued, “I’m living proof that the craziest things can happen, and you can end up exactly where you always wanted to be.”
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To conclude the show, she brought a Nashville resident on stage — one whose grandmother recently died from terminal liver cancer — to help her perform her and rapper Ludacris’s famous cover of “The Champion” as a way to highlight a member of the community who she thought was a champion.
As her tour wraps up in October, Underwood will join Parton and McEntire inhosting the 2019 Country Music Association Awardsthe following month, celebrating the legendary women of country music.
The CMAs will air on Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. on ABC.
source: people.com
