A Pregnant Gabby Barrett Crushed Her Performance at the 2020 CMA Awards

Country music star Gabby Barrett had one of the standout performances at the 2020 CMA Awards, held in Nashville’s Music City Center on November 12. 

The evening was cohosted by Reba McEntire and Darius Rucker, and much like other awards shows in the era of COVID-19, it had a pared-down red carpet and a smaller, socially distanced crowd—but perhaps not distanced enough. 

Barrett performed “I Hope,” with Charlie Puth accompanying her on the piano, and the moment definitely had Twitter buzzing. Did we mention Barrett is in her third trimester of pregnancy? “If you weren’t singing along to @GabbyBarrett_ and @CharliePuth on the #CMAawards, you’ve never had your heart broken,” the official Country Music Association Twitter account wrote, and we can’t disagree. 

Puth himself tweeted, “I’m a country artist now. Thank you for having me @GabbyBarrett_.” 

Fans in general went nuts for Gabby Barrett’s incredible performance. Some noted how amazing it was that she was able to belt out the tune while that pregnant—her breath control was seriously insane. “Gabby Barrett is insane for singing this song while being pregnant. She’s a literal superhero!! The amount of breath control you need for I Hope is unbelievable. #CMAawards,” one person tweeted. 

Barrett is currently expecting her first child early next year, a daughter, with her fellow American Idol alum husband Cade Foehner. “We are very excited,” she told People in August. “The Lord has blessed us with a little one, and we’re really excited to finally be able to share the news with everybody and just have a big old family celebration about it.

“We started trying pretty much at the start of the whole pandemic,” she continued. “It happened pretty quickly. We were expecting it to take a little while, and it seemed like the first try that it happened, so we were just so excited. We were blown away that it worked so quickly. But yes, we were starting to plan on it, for sure.”

The family was excited to make an appearance together on the red carpet last night. “The 3 of us. What an honor to be apart of @CountryMusic this year. Thank y’all so much,” she tweeted. 

Originally Appeared on Glamour