Kellie Pickler performed at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium on Monday night for a Patsy Cline tribute concert for the first time since her husband's death last year.
“I’d be lying if I didn’t say I was not incredibly nervous right now,” Pickler said onstage. It's my first time onstage in a while.”
In February 2023, Pickler's 12-year husband, songwriter/producer Kyle Jacobs, committed suicide. His age was 49.
Music Mayhem magazine posted a TikTok video of Pickler performing “The Woman I Am,” which she co-wrote with Jacobs, on Monday night.
My husband and I actually wrote this song together, gosh, over a decade ago,” Pickler said onstage. I was here with him on a date night at Ryman Auditorium last time, and I know he is here tonight.”
Jacobs wrote “More Than a Memory,” Garth Brooks' Hot Country Songs number-one, and songs for Trace Adkins, Clay Walker, and others.
Jacobs produced Lee Brice's 2020 album Hey World and hit songs “I Drive Your Truck,” “Hard to Love,” “Rumor,” and “Drinking Class.”
Jacobs married Pickler in January 2011 after appearing on I Love Kellie Pickler. Pickler placed sixth on American Idol in 2006 and had a Country Airplay top 10 hit with “Best Days of Your Life.”