Natalie Maines

Natalie Maines is really a singer/songwriter who’s best known because the business lead vocalist for the Dixie Chicks, but offers since established herself like a single performer. She changed original vocalist Laura Lynch in 1991. The group earned 13 Grammy and 10 Nation Music Association honours prior to going on hiatus in 2007. Maines may be the girl of near-legendary maker, multi-instrumentalist, and musician’s musician, Lloyd Maines, among the accurate architects of Americana music. After senior high school she went to several colleges, especially the Berklee College of Music, where she gained a scholarship or grant to pursue Tone of voice Studies; she remaining before completing her level, opting for a specialist career rather. Her vocals possess made an appearance on recordings from Tx songwriters Pat Green and Charlie Robison, in addition to pop and rock and roll performers including Stevie Nicks, Sheryl Crow, Neil Gemstone, Pete Yorn, and Yellowcard, to mention several. Maines was in an exceedingly general public feud with Toby Keith in 2002 more than a music he had written entitled “Thanks to the Red, White colored, & Blue,” which she stated was ignorant and produced Americans appear this way. After some back-and-forth tabloid exchanges, it culminated in her putting on a t-shirt on-stage using the characters F.U.T.K. inside a Dixie Chicks efficiency in the Academy of Nation Music Awards. Apparently, Keith hasn’t uttered her name since. Constantly outspoken on politics and sociable justice issues like the Iraq battle, Maines made remarks in 2003 in a Dixie Chicks concert in Britain about then-president George W. Bush. Like a protest contrary to the battle, she stated the group was ashamed that he was from Tx. Her remarks triggered a firestorm of controversy, as well as the Dixie Chicks had been blacklisted on nation radio. These were vindicated, nevertheless, when their 2006 recording, Taking the GOOD WAY, debuted at number 1 over the Billboard Best 200, and marketed over two million copies — an record that Maines wrote all of the music. Her debut single offering, Mother, premiered in-may of 2013. The record is really a collection of addresses and was co-produced with Ben Harper.