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Elton John has always had a keen eye for things that sparkle. The piano pop legend is a sucker for things that go bling, but his latest pieces are not for the faint of heart. In a new documentary short called Elton John — Touched by Gold, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer describes the “timeless” nature of gold, which can be simple, ravishing, decorative, or even overwhelming. And, if you’re someone whose life is gilded from top-to-bottom, with gold records and countless golden awards, it’s a precious metal that can come to define your life. “It’s been there since the world began and it’s been used in all sorts of ways,” John says in the doc in which he chronicles his history with the precious metal. Which is why it should come as no surprise when, halfway through the short film, John reveals that he’s turned one of his most painful moments into gleaming keepsake jewelry. “When I had my kneecaps removed, the left one first and then the right, I asked my surgeon if I could keep the kneecaps, which he was rather startled about,” John tells London jewelry designer Theo Fennell. “Then I rang you and said, ‘Would you be prepared to, if I gave you the left and the right kneecap to do what you want with them?’” Fennell totally got the assignment and shows off a piece of jewelry he created with a fragment of the kneecap bone that he turned into a necklace. “We baked them. We had to bake them to dry them out,” says Fennell. “Then they get rather like pumice stone, they’re very porous. So we had to paint them with acetate and then just polish them up.” Fennell sys he was very happy with the results, holding up the shiny necklace to the camera as John professes to be pleased with the unusually beautiful result. “That is amazing,” he says as Fennell twirls the finished piece. “That one, that’s the right kneecap. That’s my right patella.” John, 78, says that his surgeon told him that he had “the worst knees he’s ever operated on,” pointing to a large hole in the piece that Fennell used to loop the necklace through. “It looks like an old artifact from Egypt or something,” John says of the necklace Fennell refers to as “talismanic.” “I love doing things that, in a thousand years, this will be, as it says here, this will be Elton John’s kneecap,” says Fennell. “How many people will believe that? I don’t know.” The necklace chain was crafted out of bones and the back of the charm features a phrase in Latin that reads “I will no longer bow to any man,” which is ironic, Fennell says, because, of course now John can’t bow to anyone with his kneecaps missing. Fennell turned the smaller left kneecap into a brooch because there was less material to work with. “I honestly think these are timeless pieces that will last for centuries,” John says. John chronicled his litany of health issues during a chat at the New York Film Festival last year to promote the U.S. premiere of his Elton John: Never Too Late documentary. “To be honest with you, there’s not much of me left,” he said at the time. “I don’t have tonsils, adenoids or an appendix. I don’t have a prostate. I don’t have a right hip or a left knee or a right knee. In fact, the only thing left to me is my left hip. But I’m still here.” Watch Elton John — Touched By Gold below. Source link

Riley Green, fresh off receiving four CMA Award nominations last week, is already looking ahead to 2026 with his Cowboy As It Gets tour. The 20-date outing, produced by Live Nation, will kick off April 16 at Southaven, Mississippi’s Landers Center and conclude at the Ralph Engelstad Arena in Grand Fork, North Dakota, on Aug. 22. It will include his first time headlining Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. Before the Boot Barn-sponsored tour starts, Green expects to have new music out. “We’re going to go into the studio this fall and probably release new music between now and then and then try to have the whole album out around the time the tour starts,” he tells Billboard, calling from London where he was playing three sold-out shows at the O2 Forum Kentish Town. Green likes releasing new music around the launch of a tour because it’s “so great to be able to play the songs on the road and see what songs raise their hands” as potential singles, he says. “That’s what happened with ‘Worst Way.’ [Fans] will let you know if it’s one they like. They’ll sing it louder than the others.” The singer’s current Damn Country Music tour resumes Stateside on Sept. 26 and lasts until Dec. 13, stopping with two dates at Resorts World in Las Vegas. Just as the current tour takes its name from a song, the 2026 outing gets its name from a tune off the recently released deluxe version of Don’t Mind If I Do. “I love the sentiment of that song, and it’s kind of a little bit of an anthemic theme to people that grew up similar to me,” he says. “We didn’t have a lot of real cowboying going on where I was at. It was just people that I thought were tough or worked with their hands. Those qualities kind of was what made someone a cowboy to me when I was a kid. That was before I wrote the song about my dad, so that’s a pretty good sentiment for a tour name.” As he’s become an arena headliner, it’s meant returning to many venues he first played as a support act, but this time as the main draw. “It’s really awesome,” he says. “I think [moving to arenas] probably means more to me than a lot of steps in my career just because arenas are the perfect-size venue. I’ve been fortunate to be able to go on tour with a lot of great artists. I did stadiums with Luke Combs, and that was a really great opportunity. But there’s something about a stadium — it’s so big and there’s so many people that seem like they’re miles away from you. I love that an arena can kind of somewhat still feel like an intimate setting. There’s no bad ticket in an arena so that’s a lot of fun for me.” The tour will have six artists rotating as opening acts, with three appearing on each date: Justin Moore, Drake White, Mackenzie Carpenter, Hannah McFarland, Adam Hood and Zach John King. Green picks his openers for a variety of reasons, but lately he’s been saving a primary support spot for an act that influenced him in some way, such as Tracy Lawrence or Jamey Johnson, who will open for him on the last leg of the Damn Country Music tour. Moore fits that slot on the 2026 tour. “I was a huge Justin Moore fan as a kid. I’ve still got a picture of me at meet and greet where he opened for Eric Church when I was about 23,” Green says. “And it’s just so cool to be able to go out on the road with him and hear him play all of his hits and maybe even introduce him to some of my fans.” The artist presale for tickets for the Cowboy As It Gets tour  start today (Sept. 16), with general tickets going on sale on Friday (Sept. 19) through RileyGreenMusic.com/tour. Cowboy As It Gets Tour Dates: April 16 – Southaven, MS – Landers Center#~$April 17 – Louisville, KY – KFC Yum! Center#~$ *ON SALE 10/3April 18 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena#~$May 7 – Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion#~•May 8 – Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre#~•June 18 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center#~•June 19 – Saratoga Springs, NY – Broadview Stage at SPAC#~•June 20 – Wantagh, NY – Northwell at Jones Beach Theater#~•June 25 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center#$*June 26 – Burgettstown, PA – The Pavilion at Star Lake#$*July 16 – Green Bay, WI – Resch Center#~•July 23 – Salt Lake City, UT – Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre#~•Aug. 6 – Darien Center, NY – Darien Lake Amphitheater#/•Aug. 7 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Center#/•Aug. 8 – Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live#/•Aug. 13 – Camden, NJ – Freedom Mortgage Pavilion#/•Aug. 14 – Hartford, CT – The XFINITY Theatre#/•Aug. 15 – Bangor, ME – Maine Savings Amphitheatre#/•Aug. 21 – Sioux Falls, SD – Denny Sanford#$*Aug. 22 – Grand Forks, ND – Ralph Engelstad Arena#$* #Justin Moore~Drake White$Mackenzie Carpenter•Hannah McFarland*Adam Hood/Zach John King Source link

Judas Priest have long been opening their shows with a cover of Black Sabbath‘s iconic 1970 single “War Pigs.” The gesture of love toward one of heavy metal’s founding fathers was taking place before singer Ozzy Osbourne died on July 22 at age 76, and to hear Priest singer Rob Halford tell it, it will continue long after as well. “She [Ozzy’s wife/manager Sharon Osbourne] approached me with this idea, she said, ‘I love your version of War Pigs. Is there a way we can get Ozzy?’ I was [like], ‘You’re asking me? This is gonna happen!,’” Halford told the Full Metal Jackie podcast this week. Halford said the band is currently going through the legal channels to clear the song, which he described as, “Ozzy singing a line and then I’m singing a line and Ozzy’s singing a line and I’m singing a line. It’s the first ever time in my entire life that I’ve been able to do a duet with Ozzy and I’m so eternally grateful and blessed that I was able to do that. When you hear it, it’s just colossal. You think that you’ve heard the one experience of Priest’s ‘War Pigs,’ but when you hear Priest’s ‘War Pigs’ with Ozzy singing on that track, it’s just going to a really special place.” Though no release date has been announced yet, Halford said “the green button’s almost ready to go,” with the artwork being finalized. “But I think it’s gonna be pretty soon,” he said. Halford has spoken about how gutted he was to miss the final Ozzy show because Priest was double-booked to perform with the Scorpions in Germany on the day of the all-star Back to the Beginning gig in Birmingham on July 5 that marked Osbourne’s final live performance; the band released a live version of Sabbath’s anti-war anthem prior to the Back to the Beginning show. He recently described learning about Osbourne’s death and the emotional impact it had on him. “I just put the phone down in my hotel room… and I just curled up in a ball and bawled my eyes out for hours,” Halford, 74, said. But Halford is also keen to keep a diamond in his mind about the metal god who meant so much to him, describing to Jackie who Osbourne was off-stage as well. He said that despite his Prince of Darkness public persona, Ozzy, “represented this other side of him that you didn’t see onstage, which is… He gave everything onstage. When he walked out on the stage, he was always beaming, you know? He loved his fans with such an extraordinary passion, but that existed offstage as well.” He said whenever he saw Ozzy at one of his shows the first question he would ask was “‘Did you have a good time? Did you enjoy yourself? Was it great?’” Listen to Halford on Full Metal Jackie here (“War Pigs” talk begins at 6:13 mark). Source link

Jack is back, this time as the hero of his own musical. The 40th anniversary of John Farnham’s record-smashing 1986 album Whispering Jack will be celebrated with a new musical. Produced by Michael Cassel and Gaynor Wheatley, Whispering Jack: The John Farnham Musical will go behind the scenes of the five years that defined the Australian artist’s transformation from a broke former teen idol to the voice of his generation.   The project will enjoy its world premiere at Sydney Theatre Company in November 2026. Explore See latest videos, charts and news At its heart, reads a statement, is the story of the people who stood beside him: Jill Farnham, his wife and “pillar of strength,” and Glenn Wheatley, his manager and friend “who risked everything to make the dream a reality”. With Whispering Jack, Farnham became a homegrown superstar.  The Sony Music release spent 25 weeks at No. 1, en route to shifting more than one million copies, becoming the first domestic LP to do so. It remains the highest-selling album ever in Australia by a local talent. Powering Whispering Jack is Farnham’s signature song, “You’re The Voice,” a top 10 hit in the U.K. and, four decades on, the unofficial anthem of Australia.   The musical is written by Jack Yabsley, directed by Mitchell Butel, and will be soundtracked by Farnham’s greatest hits alongside classics of the era. “Musicals have always held a very special place in my heart as it’s where I met Jill,” Farnham comments in a statement. “To see this part of my story brought to life on stage is an adventure that might just require you strapping on your seatbelt! For me it has always been about the songs. From ‘Sadie’ to ‘You’re the Voice,’ I am forever grateful for both these songs and the people who connect with my music.” Those quotes, although delivered by email, will feel like some relief for Farnham’s many fans. The legendary, ARIA Hall of Fame-inducted singer faced his toughest comeback yet, when he underwent major surgery to remove a cancerous growth in August 2022. Since then, he has made only a handful of rare public appearances, and last October was heard for the first time in more than two years in an audiobook excerpt for his memoir. The forthcoming musical follows the 2023 release of John Farnham: Finding the Voice, which became the all-time highest-grossing Australian music documentary in these parts. “Whispering Jack isn’t just an album, it’s part of the fabric of this country,” comments Gaynor Wheatley. “Glenn believed in John when others didn’t, and together with Jill, we risked everything to make it happen. To now see that story come alive on stage, with all of its heart, humor, and grit, produced with Michael Cassel and this magnificent creative team, is deeply personal and incredibly exciting. John’s legacy deserves nothing less than this kind of theatrical celebration.” General Public single ticket on-sale details will be announced at a later date. Visit sydneytheatre.com.au for more. Source link

Musical Christmas has come exceptionally early, with Coachella dropping its 2026 lineup on a seemingly unremarkable Monday night (Sept. 15) in September. This surprisingly early Coachella talent announcement includes its regular roster of pop superstar headliners, with Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber and Karol G taking top billing among dozens of other genre spanning acts. And as always, there’s a long list of electronic artists playing the festival. Names in the biggest font include Anyma, whose mention is floating at the bottom in a position that in previous years has been reserved for artists including Travis Scott, Calvin Harris and Swedish House Mafia. Boys Noize, who’s been opening for Nine Inch Nails on their current Peel It Back tour, will play alongside the industrial lords as Nine Inch Noize. Major Lazer will play Coachella for the first time in years and Kaskade, Disclosure and Solomun will also get big looks, with their names on the lineup’s upper levels. Dance acts typically play across most of Coachella’s myriad stages, composing the entire daily lineups for the club-focused Yuma tent, getting marquee spots in Sahara and often also playing on the Outdoor Stage, the Mojave and Gobi tents and occasionally the mainstage as well. Additionally, the Quasar stage that debuted at Coachella in 2024 and hosts extended b2b sets typically announces its lineups (which in the past two years have been different for each weekend of the festival) much closer to the event in April, as does the the Do Lab stage, an electronic music nexus that’s been a Coachella staple since the festival’s earliest years. Coachella returns to Indio, Calif., over two weekends April 10-12 and 17-19, 2026. These are all the electronic artists currently on the lineup. Friday April 10 & 12 Nine Inch Noize (Nine Inch Nails & Boys Noize) Disclosure Levity Moby Marlon Hoffstadt Gordo Kettama Groove Armada Hugel Slayyyter Prospa Hamdi Max Styler Dabeull Ninajirachi Chloé Caillet & Rossi Max Dean & Luke Dean Jessica Brankka Arodes Youna Sahar Z Saturday April 11 & 18 Solomun PinkPantheress Rezz Adriatique Boys Noize Yousuke Yukimatsu Green Velvet Ayybo Zulan Bedouin Ben Sterling Mahmut Orhan Riordan Yamagucci Sunday April 12 & 19 Kaskade Major Lazer Subtronics Mochakk Duke Dumont Armin van Buuren x Adam Beyer The Rapture Bunt Röyksopp Cobrah WhoMadeWho RØZ Carlita x Josh Baker Mëstiza  &friends Azzeca Tomora Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up Source link

Coachella 2026 will be poptastic. Justin Bieber, Sabrina Carpenter and Karol G will headline next year’s Coachella, to be presented April 10-12 and April 17-19 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA. Also, Anyma, the Italian-American techno and melodic techno producer who has blown minds and melted faces with his residency at the Sphere, will deliver a world premiere in what’s billed as “Anyma presents Æden” and is hyped under the day-by-day breakdown. Explore See latest videos, charts and news The full line-up was revealed late Monday, Sept. 15 (see below). At the very bottom of the poster is the curious mention, “The Bunker Debut Of RADIOHEAD KID A MNESIA.” In 2021, Radiohead reissued their 2000 album Kid A and 2001’s Amnesiac as a compilation project titled Kid A Mnesia, so it’s possible fans will get to hear the classic projects in their entirety, just in time for the latter’s 25th anniversary.  Organizers Goldenvoice, a subsidiary of AEG Presents, have, once again, booked a deep pool of talent to satisfy every taste. The first day of festivities will feature the likes of The XX, Disclosure, Teddy Swims and Devo. Day two will rumble on with performances by The Strokes, GIVĒON, Addison Rae, Labrinth, David Byrne and others. And day three will rollout with Young Thug, Kaskade, BIGBANG and many more. Passes will go on sale Friday, Sept. 19 at 1pm ET. Source link

A final Soundgarden album is coming, but we’re not likely to hear anything from it this year, and certainly not before the Seattle band’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction on Nov. 8. Explore See latest videos, charts and news “There’s not a set release date or anything as of yet,” drummer Matt Cameron, who will become a two-time inductee after getting in with Pearl Jam during 2017. “There were a couple schools of thought, like, ‘Hey, let’s put out a single.’ I think eventually we decided we want to make sure the whole thing is completed before we start releasing singles. I’m excited for people to hear it.” Cameron, who announced his departure from Pearl Jam on July 7, is understandably excited about his Rock Hall distinction. “It’s a huge honor,” he acknowledges. “I haven’t really wrapped my head around it, and it’s not lost upon me that it’s pretty real to get in there two times. I’m feeling great about everything.” He has happy memories about the 2017 ceremony, including David Letterman’s induction speech for Pearl Jam as well as watching Yes perform and meeting original drummer Bill Bruford, one of his heroes. “Overall it was a pretty amazing time,” Cameron recalls. “It wasn’t really too stressful for me other than to make sure the performance was dialed in, because it was a big TV event. But other than that, it was a great evening.” Getting into the Rock Hall with Soundgarden, however, will mean something different to Cameron, who joined the group in 1986 and was part of all of its recordings. “They’re both huge honors, of course,” he says. “For me, personally, I helped build Soundgarden from the ground up, and I helped create the sound, I think, a little bit more than I did with Pearl Jam, which was definitely more of an established thing that I came into. So in that sense (Soundgarden’s induction) is a little more meaningful for me as an artist and musician and songwriter to go in with a band that I helped (to) establish itself.” And while Soundgarden hails from a decidedly alternative scene that hasn’t always given credence to established institutions such as the Rock Hall, Cameron says that “there was never really a reluctance to acknowledged this honor. I think we’re always happy to be recognized by any established entity in the music industry…It felt like even from the early days, fellow musicians noticed what we were doing, and the music industry definitely took notice, so…it was nice to be recognized by the Grammys and whoever else.” Soundgarden’s induction follows two previous nominations, in 2020 and 2023. The group finished sixth in the fan vote with 233,205. Cameron is sending the Yamaha drum kit that he used to record the first three Soundgarden albums, as well as his first Keplinger snare drum. Soundgarden is planning to perform at the ceremony in Los Angeles — which will be aired live via Disney+ — but has not yet announced how the late Chris Cornell’s vocals will handled. “I think that’s above my pay grade,” says Cameron, who last December performed at a benefit concert for Seattle Children’s Hospital — billed as Nudedragons — at which guitarist Kim Thayil and bassist Ben Shepherd were joined by Seattle vocalist Shaina Shepherd (no relation). He did, however, reveal that original bassist Hiro Yamamoto, with whom he recently performed in Seattle, will be involved in the ceremony, while an inductor is still being determined. “It’s just been really exciting to gather up all these people we worked with over the years that helped us create the band, create our legacy, and it’s going to be a really great night,” the drummer predicts. In the meantime, Cameron, Thayil and Shepherd are working to finish the eight remaining songs they started working on with Cornell before he committed suicide after a performance in Detroit during May of 2017. “We’re definitely over halfway done with it,” Cameron says. “Kim is in the process of finishing his guitar parts; he wants to make sure they get exactly the way he wants them.” Soundgarden — whose most recently release, 2012’s King Animal, was its first new album in 16 years — began working on the material back in 2015; finishing them was delayed until legal issues between the band and Cornell’s widow Vicky Cornell could be settled. “Emotionally it’s been extreme highs and extreme lows,” Cameron says of working on the material. “Hearing (Cornell’s) voice on these powerful hard rock songs is the most empowering thing in the world for me. Then I listen to his voice soloed up when I’m working on stuff, or if Kim or Ben is working on something, and it all comes back to the fact that he’s not with us and he left us in a way that has so many questions. It’s been gut-wrenching but at the same time very empowering.” The Soundgarden album is just one of the endeavors Cameron’s been up to since, and before, announcing his departure from Pearl Jam — which he says was amicable. “I definitely gave them a lot of notice,” he notes. “I’ve spoken with Jeff (Ament) and Stone (Gossard) a little bit…It’s been fine. Hopefully we’ll get back together at some point and have a beer or something.” He maintains, as he did in his original announcement, that “I’m at a point in my life where I want to redirect my time and energy in a way that is a little bit based on what I want to pursue as an artist at this point.” That includes a new band, Is This Real?, in which he’s serving as frontman and guitarist; it began as a Wipers tribute but is “also recording original music I’ve been writing over the years,” with an album of mostly original material I’ve been writing over the years” expected in the near future. He and Thayil, meanwhile, continue to work in the all-star 3rd Secret (with Nirvana’s

Following the death of music manager Brandon Blackstock last month at age 48, his former stepmother Reba McEntire offered a family update on Sunday’s Emmys red carpet. McEntire was married to Brandon’s dad, Starstruck co-founder Narvel Blackstock, for 26 years and is the mother of Brandon’s half-brother Shelby. When Brandon married Kelly Clarkson in 2013, McEntire all of a sudden became family with Clarkson, a singer she had performed with before the marital connection. (Reba and Narvel divorced in 2015, while Kelly and Brandon ended their marriage in 2022.) Before his death, Brandon Blackstock had four children: Savannah and Seth from a previous marriage and River Rose and Remy with Clarkson. At Sunday’s Emmys, an Entertainment Tonight reporter asked McEntire how the whole family is holding up following Brandon’s death. “Well, we miss him. We miss him every minute,” McEntire said. “The kids are doing well. They’re all bonding together and hanging out with each other and taking it one day at a time. We know God’s got this.” The reporter also asked how Reba’s son is doing, to which she replied: “Shelby’s doing great, thank you for asking.” Brandon Blackstock died on Aug. 7 after battling cancer for three years. Also on Sunday’s Emmys red carpet, McEntire revealed that she’s engaged to her Happy’s Place co-star Rex Linn after dating for five years. McEntire was previously married to Charlie Battles from 1976 to 1987 and to Narvel Blackstock from 1989 to 2015. When E! News asked her last year if she would consider getting married a third time for Linn, Reba said: “If that’s something he feels totally strong about, that’s fine with me. He’s never been married before. So, if he wants to experience that, I’m OK with that.” Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up Source link

Nick Cannon now believes deciding to have 12 children was a response to trauma. While sitting down with The Breakfast Club, Cannon spoke on his mental health journey and admitted that he was dealing with trauma after going through his divorce with Mariah Carey. And when he was asked by co-host Charlamagne Tha God if the Wild-N-Out creator thought having 12 kids with six different women was a response to his trauma, he said yes. “I’m learning that now, and it wasn’t like I was acting out,” Cannon said. “It was more of being careless, being frivolous with my process, because I could do it, because I had the money, because I had the access to whoever and however I wanted to move. Opposed to doing a mature thing and saying, ‘Hey, well, it probably makes more sense to do this.’ And then, obviously, life happens as well. So it wasn’t like, ‘Well, I’m gonna go have 12 kids.’ It was more about, like, ‘Yo, I’mma just live life and have fun and whatever happens, happens, I can handle it.’” He added: “Being almost 45 now, I can sit back and be like, ‘If I would have thought the process through a little bit more and took time to actually do the inner work, things might’ve been a little different in certain scenarios.’” Co-host Loren Lorosa then asked if he still would have had 12 kids, to which Nick responded that he wasn’t sure. “I don’t know … I’ve always said this: Every child that I had was made out of love and they was strong relationships,” he answered. “If I would’ve did the work and the healing after getting divorced, I probably would’ve took my time in a lot of other scenarios. And for whatever reason, I thought that was the answer a lot of times. It was like, ‘Oh, I’mma figure it out over here. I’mma figure it out over here,’ opposed to like leaving trauma every step of the way, instead of fixing it from its origin and then being able to present itself. But concepts like monogamy, I still feel the same way.” Back in 2022, Nick Cannon revealed that he practices consensual non-monogamy, and in 2024, he said that he had been diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder. You can watch the full episode below. Source link

Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes have ended their romantic relationship, a rep for Ballerini has confirmed to Billboard. People first reported the news. CMA Awards winner Ballerini and the Outer Banks actor publicly confirmed their relationship in 2023 and walked the CMT Awards red carpet together. They’ve since accompanied each other on various red carpets and awards shows and let fans in on their relationship through social media posts over the past few years. “They’re two adults who gave it their all and tried to do everything they could to make it work, but ultimately couldn’t. It happens,” sources close to Ballerini and Stokes told People. Explore See latest videos, charts and news The breakup might seem sudden for fans of the couple, given that just days ago (on Friday, Sept. 12), Stokes celebrated Ballerini’s 32nd birthday with a celebratory Instagram post. The post included several photos and videos of the couple’s behind-the-scenes moments together, and Stokes captioned the post with, “Although you keep saying you’re not excited for 32, id say I’m lookin forward to more of this. happy birthday my love.” In January, Ballerini celebrated two years of being with Stokes, posting on Instagram, “Two years of catching each other in countless cities, perfecting a chimichurri steak, and creating a world that revolves around dogs. love you so, teammate.” The two first connected in 2022, when Ballerini introduced herself by sending Stokes a direct message on social media. This year, Ballerini has reached new career heights, headlining a slate of arenas on her 2025 tour, earning an ACM Award nomination for entertainer of the year, and joining The Voice as a coach for its 27th season, alongside fellow coaches John Legend, Adam Levine and Michael Bublé. Source link