{"id":146034,"date":"2025-09-15T23:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146034\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T23:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:12:12","slug":"one-of-the-most-incredible-experiences-of-my-life-nanaimo-singer-wins-pair-of-country-music-awards-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146034\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018One of the most incredible experiences of my life:\u2019 Nanaimo singer wins pair of country music awards | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whitcomb was also nominated in four other categories, including Single of the Year and Songwriter(s) of the Year for his track \u2018Quitter\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He paid tribute to the song, a gritty, foot-stomping anthem that croons to its listeners about the hardest part of dealing with an addiction, during his acceptance speech Saturday night for breakthrough artist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for keeping me sober. Thank you for saving my life,\u201d he told the crowd. \u201cI love you sincerely, from the bottom of my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whitcomb was a contestant, and finished in the top 20, on<a href=\"https:\/\/nanaimonewsnow.com\/2022\/04\/04\/nanaimo-teenager-wows-through-hollywood-week-on-american-idol\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> \u2018American Idol\u2019 in 2022,<\/a> before continuing his career with the release of singles in both 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s due to release his first studio album, The Hard Way, later this month.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 with files from The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re on Bluesky! Stay up to date on news across central Vancouver Island through Bluesky, by following <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/nanaimonewsnow.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@NanaimoNewsNOW.bsky.social<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>info@nanaimonewsnow.com<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nanaimonewsnow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter (X)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/nanaimonewsnow.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/everythingnanaimo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whitcomb was also nominated in four other categories, including Single of the Year and Songwriter(s) of the Year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,1348,98836,134,136,98830,98837,98829,98831,98832,44,98833,98834,98835,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-146034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-central-vancouver-island","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-nanaimo","15":"tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","16":"tag-nanaimo-news","17":"tag-nanaimo-news-now","18":"tag-nanaimonewsnow","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-oceanside","21":"tag-parksville","22":"tag-qualicum","23":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}