During last night’s 44th ACM Country Music Awards, past American Idol Carrie Underwood won the Entertainer of the Year Award from the Academy of Country Music. Carrie Underwood became the first woman to win the prestigious ACM Entertainer of the Year Award since the Dixie Chicks won in 2000, and the ACM award has only been won 6 times by a woman prior to Underwood’s win.

The ACM Awards ceremony took place April 5, 2009 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, with country music star and legend Reba McEntire serving as host. Carrie Underwood’s burgundy wine colored dress, the Lava Dress, has people talking, which was obviously done on purpose to ignite interest and gossip about what Carrie Underwood was wearing. Reba McEntire even joked that she had had planned on wearing that same dress.

Underwood’s dress was kept a secret from the public, with no video, photos or discussions about the dress allowed before the LIVE performance. “The dress that I’ll be wearing during my performance is … It’s big,” Carrie said. “There’s a lot — a lot of dress.”
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