In 2014, Kelsea Ballerini attended the CMA Awards as a fan. At the 2015 show on November 4th, she walked the red carpet as a double nominee.

Though she didn’t collect any CMA hardware that night, the Knoxville, Tennessee, native’s meteoric rise this year certainly hasn’t gone unnoticed. Billboard recently announced…

Source: RollingStone
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