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- Kelsea Ballerini arrived at the 2025 CMA Awards looking glam for her big night at the awards show
- The country singer wore a red dress with a sheer skirt, showing a cheeky look at her backside
- The nominee for Female Vocalist of the Year is set to perform during the ceremony
Kelsea Ballerini is giving her best at glam at the 2025 CMA Awards.
The “I Sit in Parks” singer, 32, lit up country’s biggest night in a head-turning look. For the awards show, she rocked a show-stopping sheer red dress. The dress featured an oversize rosette on the front and a completely sheer skirt that offered a cheeky peek at her backside.
She brought the whole look together with towering red heels and a vibrant red lip.
Ballerini is nominated for Female Vocalist Artist of the Year and will be among those performing.
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The “Cowboys Cry Too” artist attended both the 2023 and 2024 with then-boyfriend Chase Stokes.
Sources confirmed to PEOPLE in September that the singer/songwriter and the Outer Banks star had split after nearly three years of dating.
“They’re two adults who gave it their all and tried to do everything they could to make it work, but ultimately couldn’t. It happens,” sources close to the couple told PEOPLE.
Nearly two months after their split, the two were spotted holding hands, according to an onlooker who saw them at Kiba Smash Burger in Dubrovnik, Croatia on Nov. 7.
Check out all of PEOPLE’s full CMA Awards coverage here.
Recently, Stokes clapped back at fans spreading negativity in the comments on one of Ballerini’s posts that referenced both him and his ex-girlfriend and costar, Madelyn Cline. “These comments are f—— weird,” he wrote. “Grow up.”
Ballerini recently debuted new EP Mount Pleasant, which she performed live for the first time during her “The Mount Pleasant Experience” pop-up activation in Nashville.
After wrapping the evening with her new mental health ode “Check on Your Friends,” Ballerini grew emotional, breaking down in tears as she thanked her fans for supporting Mount Pleasant and for standing by her throughout her career.
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“Thanks for embracing the not-so-glittery parts of me over the last few years,” she said. “I know that I’m the luckiest to be able to have all these very big feelings and be like, ‘I need to put it in music or I will combust.’”
The 59th Annual CMA Awards broadcast live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Nov. 19 from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. on ABC. The show streams the following day on Hulu.