Carrie Underwood delivers heartfelt tribute to Naomi Judd during concert... hours after her passing
Daily MailCarrie Underwood is among the country music fans paying tribute to Naomi Judd following her sudden death at the age of 76 on Saturday, April 30. Emotional: Carrie Underwood, 39, pointed up to the heavens when she paid tribute to Naomi Judd at the Stagecoach Festival in Indio, California, hours after the news broke of her death 'This next song goes out to everybody who's ever lost someone that they loved, which is everybody,' Underwood said in the set-up to See You Again. Heartfelt: The country music superstar paid homage to Judd by first asking the audience to remember loved ones lost along the path of life: 'This next song goes out to everybody who's ever lost someone that they loved, which is everybody,' she told the crowd Underwood and her band then pulled at the heartstrings of all those in attendance with an emotional rendition of See You Again, which talks of the comfort in believing we will all see our lost loved ones again. RIP Naomi Judd: 'Let's light up this place in memory of all those that we miss,' the Inside Your Heaven star said, adding, 'I know all of country music will be lighting something up for Ms. Naomi Judd' Tribute: Earlier on Saturday, Underwood took to Twitter to pay her respects to Judd Earlier in the day, Underwood paid her respects to Judd on Twitter, writing: 'Country music lost a true legend…sing with the angels, Naomi!!! Heartbreaking: Sisters Wynonna and Ashley Judd announced their mother's passing on Twitter; the sister are pictured in July 2006 Sisters The Judd sisters, Wynonna and Ashley, said they lost their 'beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness' in their official statement Over the years, Naomi Judd had shared about her mental illness, which included revealing feelings of suicidal depression in interviews and in her book - River Of Time: My Descent Into Depression And How I Emerged With Hope.