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Dua Lipa Reveals How She Kept Chris Stapleton ACM Awards Performance a Secret: ‘Lots of Hoodies Were Involved’


Dua Lipa told Billboard how she and Chris Stapleton kept surprise 2024 ACM Awards performance a secret and her feelings on 'Radical Optimism' debut.

Dua Lipa ‘s surprise performance with Chris Stapleton at Thursday night’s (May 16) 2024 ACM Awards required some seriously stealth maneuvers. The “Training Season” singer took the stage to debut a new duet with Stapleton at the awards show at Ford Theater at the Star in Frisco, Texas and afterwards she talked to Billboard about how they pulled off the high-profile musical sneak attack. Stapleton won the artist of the year and album award at the 59th annual ACMs, but it was when he performed his song “Thing I’m in Love With You” with Dua — and his wife Morgane — that the audience at the Ford Theater sat up in their seats watching the two singers from different musical words meld their universes.

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