{"id":40834,"date":"2025-07-13T13:31:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T13:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/how-miranda-lambert-honored-her-friends-late-father-onstage\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T13:31:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T13:31:01","slug":"how-miranda-lambert-honored-her-friends-late-father-onstage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/how-miranda-lambert-honored-her-friends-late-father-onstage\/","title":{"rendered":"How Miranda Lambert Honored Her Friend&#8217;s Late Father Onstage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/miranda-lambert\" target=\"_blank\">Miranda Lambert<\/a>\u00a0found a serendipitous way to honor her friend&#8217;s late father during her opening set for <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/morgan-wallen\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0<em>I&#8217;m the Problem<\/em> Tour stop in Miami, Fla. on Friday night (July 11.)<\/p>\n<p>Most fans watching Lambert play might not have realized it. But the belt the singer was wearing was doing a whole lot more than holding up her denim miniskirt. It was a way to honor the late father of a close friend and band mate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My friend and background vocalist [Gwen Sebastian] recently lost her dad,&#8221; Lambert wrote in an Instagram post, showing several shots of her show and of the special belt she was wearing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last night I forgot my belt, and she told me that she just happened to pack an extra,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It was her father&#8217;s and had his name on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read More<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/morgan-wallen-unveils-miami-remix-with-lil-wayne-rick-ross-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Wallen Unveils &#8216;Miami&#8217; Remix With Lil Wayne + Rick Ross<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What an honor to wear that last night in Miami,&#8221; Lambert said. &#8220;Love you Gwennie!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to his obituary, Sebastian&#8217;s father, Gerald, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stevensonfuneralhome.com\/obituaries\/gerald-sebastian\" target=\"_blank\">died<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sebastian competed on Season 2 of\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/the-voice\" target=\"_blank\">The Voice<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>back in 2012, where she made it as far as the Battle Rounds as a member of Team <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/blake-shelton\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Shelton<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Shelton was still married to Lambert at the time, and Lambert worked with her during her time on the show.<\/li>\n<li>Sebastian started touring with both Shelton and Lambert after her time on\u00a0<em>The Voice<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>She&#8217;s been a regular fixture in Lambert&#8217;s band for years, as well as providing vocals on several of the star&#8217;s albums.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lambert is booked for a handful of\u00a0<em>I&#8217;m the Problem<\/em> Tour stops this summer, and she appeared during the first of Wallen&#8217;s two nights in Miami, Fla, along with fellow opener <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/gavin-adcock\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Adcock<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During those shows, she has also been joining Lambert for a duet rendition of his song &#8220;Cowgirls.&#8221; The two stars once again teamed up for that performance during the Miami show, after <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/morgan-wallen-miranda-lambert-cowgirls-wisconsin-im-the-problem-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\">first duetting on the song<\/a> in Madison, Wisc. late last month.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photogallery-wrapper blog-photogallery \">\n<h2 class=\"photogallery-title\">30 Best Morgan Wallen Songs Every Fan Should Know by Heart<\/h2>\n<div class=\"photogallery-description\">\n<div>You&#8217;ll find largely singles in this Top 30 countdown of <a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/tags\/morgan-wallen\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>&#8216;s best songs and biggest hits. But we&#8217;ve scattered in a few songs found deep within Wallen&#8217;s three albums, <em>If I Know Me<\/em> and his record-breaking double albums <em>Dangerous <\/em>and <em>One Thing At a Time<\/em>.<\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve even included a few early favorites from his 2025 project, <em>I&#8217;m the Problem<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/rest\/carbon\/api\/scripts.js?mver=69&#038;gver=6&#038;bid=204&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fbtloader.com%2Ftag%3Fo%3D5642230212591616%26upapi%3Dtrue&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.p-n.io%2Fpushly-sdk.min.js%3Fdomain_key%3DGbJ4PR9JZzdxdLXzJnfIG9ZgkXSFQNevIcIY&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Ftownsquare.media%2Fpublic%2Fresources%2Fjs%2Fpubcid.min.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fplatform.twitter.com%2Fwidgets.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fapis.google.com%2Fjs%2Fplatform.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fconnect.facebook.net%2Fen_US%2Fsdk.js&#038;urls[]=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.pinterest.com%2Fjs%2Fpinit.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer data-osano=\"ESSENTIAL\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/tasteofcountry.com\/miranda-lambert-belt-late-father-band-mate\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miranda Lambert\u00a0found a serendipitous way to honor her friend&#8217;s late father during her opening set for Morgan Wallen&#8216;s\u00a0I&#8217;m the Problem Tour stop in Miami,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":40835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}