The Country Music Association has handed Taylor Swift its Pinnacle Award – a prize only awarded once before to Country legend Garth Brooks in 2005.
It recognizes artists who take the genre to a worldwide audience, and comes despite Swift’s recent shift towards more mainstream pop.
George Strait, 61, won entertainer of the year at the ceremony in Nashville.
Blake Shelton and wife Miranda Lambert were named best male and best female vocalists, each for the fourth time.
Source: BBC News
