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George Strait Pays Tribute to Wife of 53 Years While Accepting CMA Lifetime Achievement Award


George Strait thanks wife Norma while accepting CMA Lifetime Achievement Award.

With a whopping 44 chart-toppers on Billboard ’s Hot Country Songs list, George Strait is a bona fide legend in the genre and beyond. The tribute opened with a fiery-eyed, ferocious Jamey Johnson performing Strait’s 2006 single “Give It Away,” a Hot Country Songs No. “I want to thank the CMAs for adding my name to the incredible artists on this small list of recipients, hearing the name of the icon Willie Nelson.”

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