Country Singer-songwriter Cassadee Pope Teams up with GIVN – This Giving Tuesday, country music’s Cassadee Pope will partner with GIVN® to remind people that access to clean water is a basic human right. Cassadee has been a voice for human rights throughout 2020, leveraging her more than 2 Million followers over social media to encourage social justice. This collaboration with GIVN®, the nation’s leading social impact beverage brand and makers of GIVN Water, the premium spring water that provides one day of clean water to people in need for every bottle sold, will help provide clean water to communities around the globe. The partnership brings together two brands that stand for human rights and believe that the everyday hero can positively impact the world. “I’m honored to partner with a brand that not only produces a great product but has a charitable backbone.” Shares Pope. “Safe, clean water is every human being’s right to have. I hope my partnership with GIVN helps provide that for many more people in need.” – Read more at PRWeb.com
‘Voice’ contestant Cami Clune: ‘Getting this far is winning for me’ – She could tell that Legend was going to pick Holiday even before he vocalized it. “I knew from the moment that I was paired with him that” Holiday was going to be picked, said Clune. “Oh, yeah. I was banking on the steal for sure.” Clune said Clarkson gave hints that she wanted to steal her that weren’t aired. “So, I definitely wasn’t completely like, ‘this is over,’ ” said Clune. “Part of me was, ‘I might not make it through,’ and Kelly used her steal. It was a moment of sadness, then immediate excitement.” She said she is “super excited” to work with Clarkson after working with Legend. – Read more at BuffaloNews.com
Gabby Barrett’s Looking Forward to Her Last Christmas Before Her Baby Arrives – While it’s not quite Christmas yet, Barrett admits that she and her husband, fellow American Idol alum Cade Foehner, have been in the holiday spirit for a while already. In fact, Barrett said that back in October, Foehner was already making plans to put their Christmas tree up as soon as the Halloween decorations came down. “He was just saying, ‘November 1…all the Christmas stuff is going up,'” Barrett recounts with a laugh. “We’re excited for just those small kinda things coming, and to spend the last Christmas together — this is our last one together without a baby, so it’ll be very special for us.” Barrett, who is expecting to give birth to a baby girl in early 2021, is already looking forward to Christmases ahead with her daughter. She’s even got some family holiday traditions in mind that she wants to pass down to the next generation. – Read more at Taste of Country
Jordin Sparks Says 2020 Gave Her ‘Total Confirmation’ She’s ‘Supposed to Be with’ Her Husband – Jordin Sparks is sure she’s with the love of her life! While speaking to Andrea Boehlke on PEOPLE in 10, the 30-year-old singer opened up about the last year and how it has shed some light on her relationship with husband Dana Isaiah. “I don’t know if this is a surprising thing, but I do know in my bones it’s just been total confirmation to me that he’s the person I’m supposed to be with,” Sparks, 30, said. “Dana is everything, he is my partner, not in crime, but he’s my partner in life [and] thrive — is what I like to say.” – Read more at People.com
Billy Gilman’s “One Voice” Is 20 Years Old and Still a Timeless Message of Hope – This year is the 20th anniversary of the song that put a much-needed spotlight on teenage suicide. “I would never have imagined that America, let alone in the world, we would be seeing so many suicides,” Gilman said in a press release about the pandemic’s effect on mental health. “If we could be a little nicer to one another and learn that we are all made differently, but we all deserve kindness, love, and respect it would make the world a better place.” It sounds like Gilman has matured right along with that first country song. Now it’s 20 years later, and Gilman is poised for a comeback (after a 2016 stint on The Voice) and is in Nashville making new music. “I had so much fun performing back in Nashville and catching up with old friends. It’s so hard to believe it’s been twenty years since my first release,” he said. “I am really excited about this new music and to offer up this opportunity for fans to watch a concert during these crazy times we are living in.” – Read more at CMT.com
‘AGT’ Kid Magicians Arrested by Louisiana Cops … For Refusing to Live with Mother – A brother and sister who gained fame on “America’s Got Talent” with their magic act probably wish they could have disappeared during a tense confrontation with cops … because they got arrested for refusing to live with their mom. The teenage siblings, Kadan and Brooklyn Rockett, were arrested last week in Farmerville, Louisiana after refusing to go with police who were trying to return them to their mother. A Missouri judge ordered the handoff in the ongoing custody battle with their father. We’re told the arrest stems from a 2019 Missouri court order requiring the kids to split their time with their mom and dad… and law enforcement sources tell us they had paperwork authorizing the handoff. Our sources say the kids have been living with their dad in California for years, but have refused to see their mom. Kadan and Brooklyn were semi-finalists on ‘AGT’ in 2016 who wowed the judges with their magician skills. – Read more at TMZ
