Even though she\u2019s a global pop\/country superstar, Canadian Shania Twain sees hosting the 61st Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas as a homecoming of sorts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is fun to me,\u201d she says. \u201cHosting the ACMs is a chance to go celebrate all of the other artists, meet the new artists, the up-and-coming artists, [to] celebrate a lot of the artists that have been rockin\u2019 it the last several years that I have not been around much, to say \u2018congratulations\u2019 and \u2018way to go\u2019 and all that kinda stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
After finding success in multiple formats, the \u201cWhose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?\u201d hitmaker leaves little doubt which one is closest to her heart.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, it is a chance to reconnect with my favorite genre, which is my root music, country, and do my best job representing my genre,\u201d she says of hosting the ACMs.<\/p>\n
Shania has quite a collection of ACM trophies herself, having won both top new female vocalist and album for The Woman in Me in 1995, before taking the entertainer trophy in 1999. The academy also gave her its special Poet\u2019s Award for her songwriting in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 61st ACMs take place Sunday, May 17, at MGM Grand Garden Arena and stream live on Prime Video at 8 p.m. ET.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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