Keith City rocked out whereas performing on the 2024 CMT Music Awards on Sunday, April 7.
The nation singer, 56, sang his monitor “Straight Line” on the awards present, which happened on the Moody Middle in Austin, Texas.
Emma Roberts introduced the efficiency, saying, “The one artist I really like greater than this subsequent performer is his spouse,” referring to City’s spouse, Nicole Kidman. “Each time this man performs the CMT Music Awards it’s epic, and tonight he’s about to do it once more.”
Whereas City didn’t obtain any nods this yr, he has gained 9 CMT awards out of 30 nominations all through his profession, together with three for Video of the Yr and two for Male Video of the Yr.
City attended the awards present solo, however discovered time on the purple carpet to gush about his relationship with Kidman, additionally 56. When E! Information requested what the key is behind a 17-year marriage, he replied, “If I reply that, it’ll come throughout as recommendation for different married individuals. I’ve no recommendation for anyone.”
He continued, “You guys determine no matter works for you. We’re figuring it out. You work it out. All people’s totally different. There’s nobody dimension matches all.”
Keith famous that he’d be keen on collaborating with Kidman. “We sing round the home so much,” he mentioned. “So, why not?”
Since City and Kidman tied the knot in June 2006, the couple — who share daughters Sunday, 15, and Religion, 13 — have accompanied each other to quite a lot of awards reveals, with Kidman changing into an everyday presence at nation music ceremonies. Though Kidman is thought for her spectacular purple carpet model, she confessed earlier this yr that she prefers to remain in relatively than attend the glamorous occasions that include her stardom.
“It feels a little bit unreal at instances,” she informed Elle in March. “I wish to get out, take my costume off and put my jammies on. It’s type of like the other of Cinderella — I’m completely happy to go dwelling and simply return to me.”
Kidman added that she feels extra like herself outdoors of the highlight. “It does really feel a little bit overwhelming,” she defined. “I’m like, ‘I must go dwelling now. I’m very drained. I wish to get heat, and I wish to curl up, and I wish to really feel actual.’”
In response to Kidman, it’s simpler for her to “really feel actual” when she is along with her household and mates as a substitute of at high-profile trade occasions.
“I’ve a really full life with people who I really like,” she continued. “I’m elevating daughters. I’m a spouse, I’m a finest pal. I’m a sister, I’m an aunt. I’ve deeply intimate relationships with individuals. And that, to me, is the that means of life — after which taking good care of what we go away behind, who we go away behind and the way we try this, and our sense of respect for that.”
As for her relationship with City, Kidman gushed throughout a January 2022 look on CBS Mornings that he’s “the perfect factor that’s ever occurred” to her, including that they’re “very suited” for one another and he or she is “extremely fortunate to have met him.”
City, for his half, revealed throughout a December 2021 episode of “Residing & Studying With Reba McEntire” that his “greatest achievement” in life was “marrying the correct individual … for the correct causes.”