Carrie Underwood He did not hesitate to pour his heart into the emotional message to Randy Travis.
The 42-year-old State singer took a stage in Grand Ole Opry On Wednesday during the NBC OPRY 100: Live Celebration. The event celebrated 100 years of Grand Ole Ole, iconic place for rural singers in Nashville. The event, host Blake Shelton, included sprinkling performance from rural music icons, such as Ashley McBryde, Brad Paisley, Carly Pearce and Kelse Ballerini. The evening was also a tribute to the biggest faces in state music, as Dolly Parton and Travis, 65.
Underwood began his performance with speech, remembering the Travis – who invited him to be a member of Grand Ole Ole Opry in 2008. years – through the tape that her sister had his music.
“From the first I heard him sing, his traditional terrestrial voice and those songs, I was hooked,” the basement said. “And I knew my sister didn’t return his ribbon.”
Singer shared that when she met Travis years later, she cried, as it was “so emotional for [her] to meet this man whose voice [she] I also singed together with “all her life.
Underwood continued his honor by singing two of his favorite songs per Travis, “three wooden crosses” and “forever and forever, amen”.
According to the end of the other song, “before he cheats” the singer stepped off the stage and headed for Travis. She fired the rest of the melody, before he gave him a microphone to say for the last line: “Amen”.
Then she pointed to Travis, prompted the applause from the audience, before she bent down to hug his friend.
On X / Twitter, the fans expressed how emotional they received when they saw the moving movement in Travis.
“Tears everywhere as Travis closes the performance Carrie Underwood,” he wrote one, while another added: “I’m not crying.”
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“Yes, I’m definitely am [crying]! “He wrote the third.” The beautiful touchable moment between those two. Not dry around in OPR Order or here at home. Forever and ever Amen! ”
In July 2013, Travis was hospitalized by viral cardiomyopathy, a virus that attacks the heart, and later suffered a stroke. The village music hall of the family had to be held to walk, magic and read in the years that followed. The condition called Aphasia limits his ability to speak, so his wife Mary Travis helps him in interviews. Following his stroke, it is not Release new music for more than a decade.
However, 2024. years, he returned his return to filming and release music. In May, in that year he released his melody, “what came from”, which was a rich acoustic ballad intensified by Travis “immediately recognizable, mental vocal tone.
The song was created with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), as Cris Lacy, Warner Music Nashville coaches, jets to Travis and asked, “What if we were able to take Randy’s voice and recreate him using AI?”
Mary Travis said Associated Print Over Zoom in May 2024. years, with his wife, he agreed right next to her: “Well, we were all so excited.” All I ever wanted from the day of the stroke, again was that the day of the blow I heard that voice again. ”
Earlier this month, Travis announced a return to the stage, revealing that he would go to his It’s more for life This year. It will perform in more than 40 cities in the US, along with its original band and a special guest vocal, James Dupré.