Carly Pearce and Lee Brice Win CMA’s Musical Event For 2020

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

November 11th, 2020 10:21 AM

Carly Pearce and Lee Brice have won the CMA for Musical Event of the Year for their song “I Hope You’re Happy Now.” Carly heard the news while doing interviews this morning.

She posted to Instagram along with a video of her reaction, “GUYS I WAS SITTING DOING INTERVIEWS AND GOT THE NEWS THAT @leebrice AND I WON MUSICAL EVENT OF THE YEAR. This was the moment I found out as I sobbed on the phone in my pjs. Thank you, thank you, thank you. In a year that started as the hardest I’ve ever experienced, YALL are helping me see the big, bright, BEAUTIFUL light at the end of the tunnel. #cmaawards #ihopeyourehappynow.”

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHc-4D1F0vA/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Meanwhile, Lee Brice also got the good news this morning. In quarantine with COVID he posted, “Well this is pretty cool news to wake up to!! Thank you @cma!!”

Carly Pearce

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  Carly Pearce performs at the Texas Club as part of the 'The Way Back Tour' on February 21, 2019 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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  Carly Pearce and Michael Ray speak onstage during the 54th Academy Of Country Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 07, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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  Carly Pearce attends the 2018 CMT Music Awards at Bridgestone Arena on June 6, 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee.
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  Carly Pearce attends the 57th Annual ASCAP Country Music Awards on November 11, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee.

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  Carly Pearce attends the 52nd annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on November 14, 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee.

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  Carly Pearce and Michael Ray attend the 57th Annual ASCAP Country Music Awards on November 11, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee.
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  Carly Pearce performs onstage at ACM Lifting Lives®: Decades on April 06, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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  Carly Pearce and Michael Ray attend the 2019 CMT Music Awards at Bridgestone Arena on June 05, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee.

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  Carly Pearce and Michael Ray attend the 12th Annual T.J. Martell Foundation Nashville Gala at Omni Hotel on February 24, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee.
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  Michael Ray and Carly Pearce perform onstage at the 12th Annual T.J. Martell Foundation Nashville Gala at Omni Hotel on February 24, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee.

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  Carly Pearce performs at Analog at the Hutton Hotel on February 11, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

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2020 CMA Awards,Carly Pearce,Lee Brice