Mar. 16, 2025
One week after the 30-year-old rising country singerdied in a three-vehicle crash, her loved ones gathered together at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas.
Family friend Deborah Mash tells PEOPLE that Harris’ stepfather, Brent Cowan, delivered her eulogy at the funeral service.
The youngster decided to sing her mother’s song, “Twenty Years from Now” alongside country singer Bonnie Bishop, Mash said.
Harris initially wrote the song for Corbie, which revealed her hope that she’d still be around to watch her little girl reach adulthood in the coming years.
Mar. 16, 2025
Denelle Manzer and Lewis Brice.Photo: Courtesy Lewis Brice
The love is reeled in!
During a fishing trip to Alaska, country singer/songwriterLewis Briceproposed to his girlfriend Denelle Manzer, PEOPLE confirms exclusively.
“I’ve had the ring for a minute, just waiting for the right time. Then I started thinking Alaska would be a cool place — a really memorable spot. So I booked a trip and a gig to Alaska. I knew Denelle had never been and would be excited to go,” Brice, 38, recounts to PEOPLE.
Mar. 16, 2025
“That’s a lot of people’s story,” she says. “It’s the person you didn’t expect. It’s something that I did not want that happened in a scenario that I did not want.”
After years of therapy, Lawler wrote a song about her journey to help others process the trauma they’ve endured. “I’m Okay” will be available Friday, and PEOPLE is premiering the song’s emotional video in honor of April’s designation as Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Mar. 16, 2025
Mackenzie Carpenter and Cole Neuber.Photo:Jessica Steddom
Jessica Steddom
It was awhirlwind week in May 2022when country music artistMackenzie Carpentergot engaged to her longtime love, Cole Neuber, in the picturesque community of Watercolor in Seaside, Florida. And so, when it came time to get married, the couple tells PEOPLE they knew they wanted to return to that very same area to become man and wife.
“The area of Seaside is one of our favorite places,” Carpenter, 24, says in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE.
Mar. 16, 2025
Wedding bells will soon ring for MacKenzie Porter and Jake Etheridge.The Canadian country singer, 29, and formerNashvilleactor, 31, got engaged on May 30 after more than five years of dating, PEOPLE confirms exclusively.“Jake took me out for an eight-course dinner at a new Indian restaurant in Nashville,” Porter tells PEOPLE. “We walked home, and when I opened up our front door, his favorite song [James Carr’s ‘The Dark End of the Street‘] was playing.