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Article: Swift takes top honor at CMA: ; Rucker named new artist of the year, Lady Antebellum top vocal group
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- November 12, 2009
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Taylor Swift made history at the Country Music
Awards, becoming the youngest person to win entertainer of the year
and the first solo female to win it in a decade.
The tearful 19-year-old - who also was the evening's top winner
with four total awards - cried as she accepted her trophy and said:
"I will never forget this moment."
No woman had won the award since Shane Twain did in 1999.
Darius Rucker became the first black singer to win new artist of
the year, joining Charley Pride as the only African-American to win
a major individual award, while Swift also won two awards, for album
and video of the year for "love Story."
Rucker, whose first country album, "Learn to ...