Chris and Morgane Stapleton’s Heartfelt It Takes A Woman Performance at ACM 2025 Moves Reba to Tears

At the 60th Annual ACM Awards held in Frisco, Texas, Chris Stapleton and his wife of nearly two decades, Morgane Stapleton, delivered a performance that many are calling the emotional highlight of the night. Their rendition of “It Takes A Woman”, a track from Chris’s 2023 album Higher, was as stripped-down as it was soul-stirring.

The couple walked onto the stage not as performers — but as partners, stepping into what felt like a sacred space. They needed no introduction. The audience fell quiet as Chris looked at Morgane and began to sing the ballad he wrote for her — and, in his words, “for every woman who holds a family together with invisible strength.”

Morgane’s harmonies, barely above a whisper at times, hovered like a second heartbeat beside him. It wasn’t showmanship. It was real. It was theirs. And it was deeply felt.

In the front row, Reba McEntire — this year’s host and herself a living symbol of country music — was seen wiping away tears as she watched the performance unfold. Camera shots caught her holding a hand to her heart, visibly moved by the authenticity between the Stapletons.

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“Sometimes you don’t need fireworks,” she said afterward backstage. “You just need a man who means what he sings… and a woman who’s stood beside him through it all.”

The performance drew a standing ovation, but not the thunderous kind — it was reverent, quiet, almost prayerful. Fellow artists, including Lainey Wilson and Kelsea Ballerini, were seen mouthing the lyrics, some with glassy eyes.

Fans took to social media immediately afterward:
“Chris and Morgane just reminded us what love really sounds like,” one tweet read.
Another said simply: “They didn’t perform. They confessed.”

In a night filled with dazzling duets and award-winning anthems, the Stapletons stood still — and in doing so, moved everyone.

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