2025 ACM Awards: Lainey Wilson wins big and Alan Jackson performs
Lainey Wilson took home the top honor at the 60th annual Academy of Country Music Awards Thursday.
The "Whirlwind" singer-songwriter picked up four ACM wins overall and was named Entertainer of the Year again.
In her acceptance speech, the 32-year-old admitted to feeling "imposter syndrome" but also shared a new perspective on it.
"I'm sure everybody deals with a little bit of imposter syndrome but I won't lie to you. I have a little bit. But I read something not long ago that just said, 'If something is given to you, then you need to accept it with an open heart and an open mind,'" she said. "And I just appreciate it."
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Wilson also said she had "the best fans in the world" and added that she wanted to be a performer since she was young.
"I dreamed about entertaining. I love making people feel things. I love making people laugh and smile and cry," said Wilson. "Because I love to feel things. Everybody loves to feel things and country music has given me more than I deserve and I appreciate everybody in this room."
Another winner at this year's ACMs was Alan Jackson, who delivered an emotional performance of his 2003 greatest hit "Remember When," nearly four years after he revealed back in 2021 that he had been diagnosed with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease or CMT, a genetic condition that affects sensory and motor nerves and can cause neuropathy or nerve damage that leads to symptoms such as pain, weakness, sensory or motor problems, according to the National Institutes of Health.
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Jackson was also honored with inaugural ACM Alan Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award, named after him and given in recognition for his "outstanding achievements and enduring legacy in country music."
"It's quite an honor. A few years ago, one of my fans named their dog after me and I thought that was something but then, this is just really, amazing," Jackson said in his acceptance speech.
"I came to Nashville with a paper sack full of songs and a crazy dream. And, all these years later, I'm standing here, receiving such an honor like this, it's just mind-blowing," he added.
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