Lauren Alaina will soon be a mother. The singer is expecting her first child, a girl, with husband Cam Arnold. The exciting news comes less than a year after her father, J.J. Suddeth, unexpectedly passed away last July. But Alaina is still honoring him in the sweetest way.
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"I started playing guitar, because my dad always wanted me to play guitar," an emotional Alaina says, while sitting in her tour bus. "My daddy grew up playing the banjo, and he played guitar. He always tried to get me to sit down long enough to play with him, and I would play with him sometimes, but I never really stuck to it. And when my brother and I went to clean out his house, we each took one of his guitars, and I said, 'I'm gonna start practicing and playing,' so here I am."
Alaina then starts singing her new single, "Those Kind of Women."
"Why I decided to play this guitar on stage again... I know Daddy is playing right along with me with the best seat in the house," she captions the video.
" data-instgrm-version="14" style="background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;margin: 1px;max-width:540px;min-width:326px;padding:0;width:99.375%;width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px);width:calc(100% - 2px)">Alaina and Arnold had been married less than a year when she found out she was pregnant. It's an unexpected blessing Alaina says is likely due to her late father.
"I do think that my dad passed away and got a stair up in heaven, and was like, 'Hey, we got to work something out down there to send the family something good,'" Alaina tells People. "And it has been such an unexpected blessing. We obviously still talk about and are dealing with the grief of my dad, but this baby has healed a lot of that for us ... like it's a little piece of my dad that will live on."
"Those Kind of Women"
Alaina announced her pregnancy by releasing the video for "Those Kind of Women," which shows off her pregnancy at the end.
"It's all about the women who raised me... I was really fortunate to be raised around a bunch of very strong women," Alaina says. "And when we cut this song, when we recorded this song, I was not pregnant nor thinking about becoming pregnant."
"It's funny how things fell into place," she adds. "It literally changed the song for me. I already loved it, because it's about the women who raised me. But, now I am going to be a woman raising a child."
