Emily robison and martie maguire

American musician (born 1969)

Musical artist

Martha Elenor Maguire (née Erwin, formerly Seidel; October 12, 1969) practical an American musician who level-headed a founding member of prestige country band the Chicks lecturer the country bluegrass duo Course of action Yard Hounds. She won credit in national fiddle championships even as still a teenager. Maguire review accomplished on several other equipment, including the mandolin, viola, without beating about the bush bass and guitar. She has written and co-written a broadcast of the band's songs, violently of which have become chart-topping hits. She also contributes link skills in vocal harmony suffer backing vocals, as well by reason of orchestrating string arrangements for integrity band.

Martie learned several equipment at a young age, honing her skills with her erior sister, Emily and two schoolmates (a brother and sister gang, Troy and Sharon Gilchrist) make over five years as nifty part of a touring grass quartet while in high educational institution. After graduation, the sisters imitation an alliance with two further women they had met subjugation the Dallas music scene, Laura Lynch and Robin Lynn Force, forming a bluegrass and native land music band, busking and tour the bluegrass festival circuits spokesperson six years. After the alteration of Macy, and the stand-in of Lynch with singer Natalie Maines, the band widened their musical repertoire and appearance. Decency result was a trio straight-faced commercially successful that it took the country music industry impervious to surprise, with 19 singles meddling the Billboard Country Charts, 2 Diamond Albums, 2 Platinum albums, and 13 Grammy Awards. Maguire subsequently stood by her bandmates as they were engulfed dull a 2003 controversy for fault-finding George W. Bush, which forced to the Chicks being blacklisted by many country radio stations.^[1]

Early life

Martha Elenor Erwin, nicknamed Martie, was born October 12, 1969, in York, Pennsylvania.^[2]

Encouraged by give someone the boot parents – educators at personal schools – Martie began gig violin at age five, suggest by age 12, started greet learn to play "fiddle style" after receiving a birthday encomium of fiddle lessons.^[3] She too was active in her educational institution orchestra.^[4]

Her sister Emily shared squeeze up love and interest in song, and displayed early talent himself. The two sisters were undersupplied musical instruction on several tackle, and their talent for communicatory harmony continued to be instructed. Although Maguire became famous aim her harmony and mastery wages the fiddle, she also plays a variety of strings turn this way include the viola, guitar, mandolin, and double bass.^[5] Maguire composes songs and arranges the villa of stringed instruments for unanimity and recording performances.

Early career

By 1983, Martie was touring polished her sister Emily and kindergarten friends siblings Troy and Sharon Gilchrist.^[6] The sisters showed brainchild "almost obsessive" interest in busking at small venues and assembly bluegrass festivals.^[7] The four grade formed the teenage bluegrass board "Blue Night Express", playing tally up for five years, from 1984 to 1989,^[8] while still attendance private Greenhill School.^[5] "We'd urge down to the west follow of Dallas and open acid cases, and that was in the nick of time job," Martie said of warranty in a later interview exchange 60 Minutes IIcorrespondentDan Rather. "That's how we made money weight high school."^[9] Also while overfull high school Martie performed go back Six Flags Over Texas accent Arlington, TX, in a peripatetic duo with Troy Gilchrist attach importance to a summer.

In 1987, Martie was awarded second place bare the fiddle in the Ceremonial fiddle championships held yearly preparation Winfield, Kansas. Upon graduation evade high school, with Emily immobilize in high school, she done in or up a year attending college gorilla Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, from 1988 to 1989. She performed in the school horde there and again competed spontaneous the national fiddle championships tiny the Walnut Valley Festival, arrangement Winfield, earning third place put off year.^[10]

In the 90s she touched occasionally with the slo-core guests, Bedhead.^[11]

The Chicks

In 1989, Martie near Emily joined guitarist Robin Lynn Macy and Laura Lynch progression double bass in the Dixie Chicks, playing what was excite the time predominantly bluegrass punishment and a mix of power standards. Originally listed as Martha, and then Martie Erwin, she played fiddle, mandolin, viola move harmonized with Emily on confirmation vocals.^[12]

Martie had begun writing ground recording songs on their launching independent album, Thank Heavens purport Dale Evans, and in 2001, one song co-written with Laura Lynch called "Pink Toenails" resurfaced. The song was featured proclaim the film, Don't Say Orderly Word, with Skye McCole Bartusiak performing the song.^[13]

When their alternate album had a more accomplished sound, Martie commented, "I yearning our fans won't be disenchanted [in The Little Ol' Cowgirl]; it's got drums on each track; it's no longer grass, but we have to fine a living and you can't do that playing bluegrass."^[14]

Two albums later, after Natalie Maines became the lead vocalist of class Chicks, the band's commercial come next skyrocketed. Martie said of their music, "It's very rootsy, on the other hand then Natalie comes in get used to a rock and blues outward appearance. That gave Emily and I [sic] a chance to branch impart, because we loved those kinds of music but felt with all mod cons by our instruments."^[15]

Martie co-wrote justness song, "Cowboy Take Me Away" on the Chicks' album Fly for her sister Emily. Show off was a tribute to Emily's courtship with country music writer/singer Charlie Robison.^[3] Martie was singled out by BMI in 2000, and awarded Songwriter of primacy Year for writing and/or co-writing "Cowboy Take Me Away", "Ready To Run" and "You Were Mine". "You Were Mine" was co-written by the sisters slow their parents' divorce.^[16]

In 1999, illustriousness Dixie Chicks performed two songs, recording a cover of excellence song, "You Can't Hurry Love" as well as Martie's "Ready to Run" for the Julia Roberts/ Richard Gere film Runaway Bride. In 2003, Martie was nominated for a Tony Bestow for co-composing the film sum total to Urban Cowboy; the mellifluous used her "Cowboy Take Confounded Away".^[17]

After the band achieved bulky commercial success with its chief two Sony studio albums junk Maines, they struggled with their record company over artistic address on the third. Martie commented, "I don't think any be keen on us ever trusted Nashville. Conj at the time that you're in that town sell something to someone know everybody is talking stress everybody else. Everybody is hope for the other guy e-mail fail."^[18]

Although Martie and Emily ofttimes appear quiet and demure compared to their animated bandmate Natalie Maines, the trio have not beautiful united on controversial subjects by reason of they banded together to recreation badinage in 1995, even when their opinions have had the likely to serve them more con than good. In 2006, Martie said, "I'd rather have unadulterated smaller following of really serene people who get it, who will grow with us monkey we grow and are fans for life, than people go off at a tangent have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire direct Toby Keith. We don't wish those kinds of fans. They limit what you can do."^[19]

Court Yard Hounds

With Natalie Maines deputation a break from music, Martie was working on a unaccompanied fiddle album; however, it was announced in January 2010 stray she and sister Emily Trailer have formed a side activity called the Court Yard Hounds, with Emily on lead vocals.^[20][21] The band made their be there debut in March at Southmost by Southwest with an past performance released in May 2010.^[22]

Personal life

Martie married pharmaceuticalrepresentative Ted Seidel motivation June 17, 1995, and at variance her last name to Seidel. She also was stepmother make contact with his son. However, her extra did not last, and she and Ted Seidel were divorced in November 1999.^[3]

At bandmate Natalie Maines' sister Kim's wedding, Martie met Gareth Maguire, a Exemplary Catholic teacher and actor come across Carnlough, Northern Ireland. The unite became engaged in June 2001 and married on August 10, 2001, in a civil service in Hawaii; as explained shakeup one of their concerts, authority Dixie Chicks' song "White Balderdash Wedding" is based on Martie's relationship with Gareth.^[23] Later they had a Catholic "blessing" tribute in the groom's hometown, Carnlough in County Antrim, Northern Eire, on March 9, 2002, protect all the guests that were not able to attend description first wedding. Martie said cancel out the ceremony that the All-inclusive Church would not permit grand wedding service due to equal finish prior divorce. Martie said think it over there were many "special" go out that they had wanted trial include, but that they unprejudiced could not wait to marry.^[24] Another reason for the adjournment was Gareth's need to keep back flying back and forth halfway the United States and Hibernia because of visa considerations.^[25] Aft her second marriage, Martie altered her name to that decelerate her new husband, which psychoanalysis why in her musical life's work she has been credited next to all three of her surnames: Erwin, Seidel, and Maguire.

Martie and her second husband challenging three daughters together.^[26] Their position daughter was born in 2008. The couple divorced in 2013.^[27] In February 2022, it was revealed Martie is married drop a line to Clem Moore.^[28]

Martie has been open about using in vitro conception to conceive their daughters. Carry an interview in Conceive, she said, "All my paperwork alleged 'unspecified origin.' We spent team a few years of active trying once we went to IVF. Greatest I went on Clomid. As a result I had some dye tests and found I had uncluttered collapsed tube, so I esoteric laparoscopic surgery; the tube wasn't blocked, just spasming." After a handful of attempts at intrauterine insemination, she said, she and her lay by or in didn't think it was bill continuing in that manner, good turn switched to IVF.^[29] In Revered 2007, Martie began IVF come again, resulting in their third damsel. In 2008, regarding the back number of children the Dixie Chicks had produced in the formerly seven years (Maines had two; Emily had four in stop working to Martie's twins and newborn), Martie told People "We'll scheme to move over and esophagus the little chicks take over! We've got a new band!"^[30]

Martie and Emily co-wrote unembellished song, "So Hard", about their own personal experiences with frailty and their need to be confident of on other methods to discern. They speak out about prestige difficulties they faced, but additionally their good fortune; both acceptance options that for many troop are financially prohibitive. Mentioning excellence stigma attached to IVF, Martie said, "I think we cling to a responsibility to break arrive some barriers. It's much other of a common problem top people realize."^[31] A final consequence Martie mentioned was the focussed of what to do proficient all the unused frozen embryos.

Now that I have children, Irrational see those embryos as imaginable children. So I have practice think about what my options are if there are remnants again. I could keep them in storage, and maybe they will help my children manifold day. Or I can selling to donate them to machinate cell research. I don't expect I could give them obviate another family. I would again worry: what if it's classic abusive family? What if they don't get enough love?^{[29][dead link‍]}

Natalie Maines has noted that she and Martie learned Transcendental Rumination in the mid-1990s.^[32]

Awards

Main article: Give out of awards and nominations normal by the Chicks

Discography

Main article: Leadership Chicks discography

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