Keith Urban and Naomi Judd.Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty; David Livingston/Getty
Keith Urbanis paying tribute to the lateNaomi Judd.
“I want to send a quick and very heartfelt acknowledgment out to the late great, very influential Naomi Judd,” Urban told concertgoers just before performing the mother-daughter act’s signature 1990 hit. “What The Judds did was astounding through the ’80s, and she was the queen and the matriarch of it all. And she wrote this song, which is pretty amazing.”
Urban posted a video of the performance to Instagram and penned a heartfelt caption. “Naomi Judd sowed so many important seeds in her precious time here. Here’s one of the many,” wrote the “Somebody Like You” performer. “On the other side of the world in Manchester tonight they were all singing ‘Love Can Build a Bridge.’ Thank you Naomi. We love you.”
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Urban isn’t the only country musician who’s expressed admiration for Naomi since her death. “Naomi was a truly talented writer and musician,” Paul Overstreet, who co-wrote “Love Can Build a Bridge,” recently told PEOPLE. “She and Wynonna were a powerhouse in the country music world.”
Last weekend,Carrie Underwoodspoke in tribute to Naomibefore performing “See You Again” during her headlining set atStagecoach. “This next song goes out to everybody who’s ever lost someone that they loved, which is everybody,” the singer, 39, said onstage. “But just because the people that we love are not here with us does not mean that they are not here with us and does not mean that you will not see them again someday.”
After pointing to the sky and asking crowd members to raise a phone or lighter and shine it in memory of someone they’ve lost, Underwood directly mentioned Naomi’s death. “Let’s light up this place in memory of all those that we miss,” she said. “I know all of country music will be lighting something up for Ms. Naomi Judd.”
source: people.com
