Miranda Lambert acquired the nation icon award on the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards.
Through the awards present, hosted by Shania Twain, at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry Home on Sept. 26, the nation star, 40, thanked her followers and mirrored on her profession as she acquired the dignity.
“It is so bizarre for me to face up right here and maintain an icon award. I imply, to me, an icon is who I grew up listening to. My daddy would play Jerry Jeff Walker, Merle Haggard, Man Clark, John Prine. These are my icons,” Lambert mentioned onstage as she accepted the dignity. “So the truth that I get this award tonight is simply blowing my thoughts.”
She added, “It is quite a lot of years, tears, beers and Tito’s.”
The “Bluebird” singer went on to thank her followers for supporting her as she made “nice reminiscences” in her profession.
“Twenty years later and a few days I really feel like I’ve carried out it 200 years and a few days I really feel like I am simply getting began,” she mentioned. “Thanks a lot to essentially the most loyal followers on this planet, nation followers. Thanks to God and all my buddies, my nation music group for permitting me to do that superb job. I am so trying ahead to what’s subsequent.”
Earlier than Lambert accepted her award, she took the stage in an all-back outfit to carry out “Kerosene” and “Dammit Randy” whereas strumming her blue guitar.
Lambert earned the award as a result of her decades-long profession of constructing “an genuine, female-forward model of nation that has formed the business,” per a press launch.
“A tour de power in nation music for greater than 20 years, Miranda Lambert’s groundbreaking albums proceed to seize the hearts of followers around the globe. We’re so excited to have a good time her profession, fierce individualism and innovation within the business with the Nation Icon Award,” mentioned Jen Neal, Government Vice President, Reside Occasions and Specials, NBCUniversal Leisure in an announcement.
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In a current interview with PEOPLE, Lambert mentioned she was “very honored” to be acknowledged as an icon however that it is nonetheless “bizarre” to be thought-about one.
“I simply nonetheless really feel like I’ve a lot extra to do and so many extra issues to perform, however then I look again, and I am like, I began on this enterprise at 17 and I am solely 40, however dang, I actually did do lots,” she mentioned. “Typically that jogs my memory why I am slightly bit drained right here and there. You recognize what I imply?”
Lambert mentioned she’s “simply getting began,” including, “I am extra impressed than I’ve been in a very long time, to be trustworthy with you.”
The “Wranglers” singer famous that she will not take the nation icon award “without any consideration.”
“I’ll use it to maintain going,” she mentioned.
Lambert launched her most up-to-date album Postcards from Texas on Sept. 13.
The 2024 PCCAs will air reside on Thursday, Sept. 26 at 8 p.m. ET/PT throughout NBC and Peacock from the Grand Ole Opry Home in Nashville.