With five nominations including Single Song Of The Year, Music Video Of The Year and Female Vocalist Of The Year, Miranda Lambert is taking the stage at the 51st annual CMA Awards ceremony as a performer as well. Miranda has had a dream like career, from numerous number-1 hits to receiving multiple awards at the CMAs, and with the show approaching, Miranda looks back the time she first took stage at the stage at the CMA Awards in 2005 at Madison Square Garden in New York, “I was terrified to get on that stage. It was the year that it was at Madison Square Garden, so not only was my first time in New York City to perform but it was the CMAs and everybody I ever loved was sitting in the crowd, not to mention, you know, the television aspect of it. It was sort of my first time to say ‘hey, here’s who I am as an artist’ and so I felt like a lot was riding on that performance. And we had fire, like, these huge firewalls, and I was afraid my hair was gonna catch on fire. You know, it was just like a million things going through my mind…but, now I definitely know that, the feeling of the butterflies is because I cared so much because I knew it was important.” We can all appreciate how far Miranda has come since her first CMA Awards performance, and fans can look forward to this Wednesday night, November 8th as she takes the stage again.
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Miranda Lambert looks back on her first CMA Awards performance in 2005. (:40)
“I was terrified to get on that stage. It was the year that it was at Madison Square Garden, so not only was my first time in New York City to perform but it was the CMAs and everybody I ever loved was sitting in the crowd, not to mention, you know, the television aspect of it. It was sort of my first time to say ‘hey, here’s who I am as an artist’ and so I felt like a lot was riding on that performance. And we had fire, like, these huge firewalls, and I was afraid my hair was gonna catch on fire. You know, it was just like a million things going through my mind…but, now I definitely know that, the feeling of the butterflies is because I cared so much because I knew it was important.”