Country singer Morgan Wallen, who was captured on video using the n-word earlier this year, has been banned from competing in solo categories at the 2021 Country Music Association Awards.
The Country Music Association (CMA) announced Friday that country singer Morgan Wallen has been banned from competing in solo categories at the 2021 CMA Awards, months after controversy erupted over his use of the n-word. Wallen was captured using the racial slur in video shared by TMZ in early February. The fallout led to him being widely banned from country music airwaves and dropped from competing in this year’s CMT Awards and Academy of Country Music Awards. Although the CMA Awards decided to bar him from competing in solo categories, he remains eligible in categories where he would share an award with a collaborator. «Board of Directors voted to amend Morgan Wallen’s 2021 CMA Awards eligibility: He will be eligible in categories that honor artistic works (Single, Song, Album, Musical Event, and Music Video of the Year categories), so as not to limit opportunity for other credited collaborators,» a CMA rep said in a statement, according to Variety.
