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                Lambert, Bryan Take Home Country Music's Prizes

   by VOA News

   U.S. Country singer Miranda Lambert won four trophies at the annual
   Country Music Association Awards in Nashville, Tennessee Wednesday
   night, including the female vocalist of the year.

   ''The prize was the fifth straight for Lambert, who was nominated in
   nine categories.  She also won the the album of the year award for her
   collection of songs "Platinum," single of the year, and musical event
   of the year for her duet with Australian-born country star Keith Urban
   on the song "We Were Us."

   Lambert's husband, singer Blake Shelton, took home the trophy for best
   male vocalist of the year.

   Meanwhile, popular singer Luke Bryan achieved a career milestone by
   winning his first-ever entertainer of the year award.

   And singer-songwriter Kacey Musgrave's "Follow Your Arrow,"  with its
   references to marijuana and homosexuality, won the song of the year
   award for Musgraves and co-writers Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally, who
   are both openly gay.

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