Brandi Carlile had the perfect inspiration for her Grammys look on Sunday night: the Rocket Man himself.

“I’m finally morphing into Elton John,” Carlile joked to Laverne Cox on E!‘sLive from the Red Carpet,“which is my dream since day one.”

Carlile, 40, who walked the carpet withwife Catherine Shepherd, is nominated for five awards at Sunday night’s Grammys in Las Vegas, and is breaking a record as the first woman to ever be nominated for two song of the year Grammys in the same year.

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“I think it means I won’t win it,” she joked to Cox of the double nods, “but the nomination is the high honor, as everybody says and everybody means.”

The singer alreadyhas six Grammys to her namefrom previous years: best Americana album, best American roots song, best American roots performance, best country album and two for best country song.

source: people.com