Luke Combs, Kacey Musgraves & Lil Nas X win at 2019 CMA Awards as Jenee Fleenor is first women to be named Musician Of The Year

Luke Combs, Kacey Musgraves & Lil Nas X win at 2019 CMA Awards as Jenee Fleenor is first women to be named Musician Of The Year

Luke Combs and Kacey Musgraves lead the way at the CMA Awards last night (November 13), both picking up two awards, while Lil Nas X was also honoured.

Combs picked up CMA Male Vocalist and CMA Song Of The Year For Beautiful Crazy, while Musgraves was named CMA Female Vocalist Of The Year and received CMA Music Video Of The Year for Rainbow.

Garth Brooks, the CMA's most awarded artist, continued his run making it seven career wins with CMA Entertainer of the Year at the ceremony in Nashville hosted by Carrie Underwood.

Lil Nas X's version of Old Town Road (Remix) featuring Billy Ray Cyrus was named CMA Musical Event Of The Year, while violinist Jenee Fleenor (pictured) became the first woman to be nominated for and win CMA Musician of the Year.

Halsey and Lady Antebellum were among the performers at the 53rd CMAs performing a medley of Graveyard and What If I Never Get Over You, while Pink and Chris Stapleton teamed-up to play Love Me Anyway.

Selected CMA 2019 winners:

ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR 
Garth Brooks

SINGLE OF THE YEAR 
Blake Shelton – God’s Country

SONG OF THE YEAR
Beautiful Crazy 
Songwriters: Luke Combs, Wyatt B. Durrette III, Robert Williford 

FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR 
Kacey Musgraves

MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR 
Luke Combs

VOCAL GROUP OF THE YEAR 
Old Dominion 

VOCAL DUO OF THE YEAR
Dan & Shay

MUSICAL EVENT OF THE YEAR
Lil Nas X feat Billy Ray Cyrus – Old Town Road (Remix)

MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR 
Jenee Fleenor

MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR 
Kacey Musgraves – Rainbow

NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR 
Ashley McBryde

ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Maren Morris – Girl

 



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