Late country music legend Toby Keith is set to be posthumously inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
There is a rule that bars voting an artist in the year after his or her death, but this does not apply to Keith because he was voted in on Feb. 2, days before his death, according to Country Music Association CEO Sarah Trahern.
“It was bittersweet that our team received word from Deloitte just a few hours later that he had been elected” into the hall, she said. “My heart sank that Tuesday afternoon that we had missed a chance to inform Toby while he was still with us.” Still, Trahern is confident he is looking down and realizing he was “as good as he once was,” she said in a nod to Keith’s tune “As Good as I Once Was.”
Keith is being inducted alongside country star John Anderson and country-rock guitarist James Burton, according to the report. “Many people tried to portray him as one-dimensional, and he wasn’t,” said Kix Brooks, who hosted the hall of fame announcements with Ronnie Dunn. “We know, we’ve been on the road with him.”A medallion ceremony to honor the new inductees is set for October at the CMA Theater.
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