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Full Martie Maguire Biography
Martie Maguire (born October 12, 1969) is an American country music songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning all-female country rock band the Dixie Chicks.
Martha Elenor Erwin was born in York, Pennsylvania, but was raised in Addison, a northern suburban town on the edge of Dallas, Texas, with an older sister, Julia, and younger sister, Emily, to parents Paul Erwin and Barbara Trask. Martha was nicknamed "Martie". Encouraged by her parents, she began playing violin at age five. By age 12, she was experimenting with playing "fiddle style", and was in the school orchestra. Emily Erwin, three years her junior, followed close behind, and shared both an early talent and interest in music, and the two were provided with as much musical instruction as was felt they could handle. Because of this, although Martie became famous for her ability in vocal harmony, and mastery of the fiddle, she also plays a variety of stringed instruments: the viola, guitar, mandolin, and bass.
By 1983 Maguire was touring with her sister Emily and friends; siblings Sharon and Troy Gilchrist. The sisters showed an "almost obsessive" interest" in busking at small venues and attending bluegrass festivals. The four students formed the teenage bluegrass group Blue Night Express, while attending private Greenhill School in Addison, Texas. While Emily was still in school, after Martie graduated, the four continued to refine their skills, and during the year from 1988 to 1989, she continued not only in polishing her talents, and performing in the university orchestra while a student at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, but she took home the award for placing third in the National Fiddle Championships.
In 1989, Martie and Emily teamed up with guitarist Robin Lynn Macy and Laura Lynch on bass playing what was at the time predominantly bluegrass music and a beguiling mix of country music standards. Jane Frost, Director of the Patsy Montana Museum and Festival held in Winfield, Kansas recalls being privy to the discussion that the four women had about a the possibility of a successful career as musicians together. Martie felt they could do well. Robin said, ".. It's going to be a 'hot' band," to which Emily responded, "I give it six months, and if we aren't making money by then, I'm out of here!" When they were at last booked for paid appearances, they decided to call themselves the Dixie Chicks after a song, "Dixie Chicken" written by Lowell George of the band Little Feat. Originally billed as Martie Erwin, Martie played fiddle, mandolin, viola and harmonized with Emily on backup vocals within the band.
Martie wrote the song "Cowboy Take Me Away" on the Dixie Chicks fifth album Fly for her sister Emily Robison. Martie was so happy that Emily found love (Emily married Charlie Robison in May 99) and wrote the song, which was their wedding waltz.
Martie married pharmaceutical representative Ted Seidel on June 17, 1995, after which she was billed as Martie Seidel. During the marriage she had a step-son, Carter. The couple was divorced in November, 1999.
Maguire has been open about the fact that she and her husband used IVF to concieve their twins. Speaking in an interview in Conceive Magazine, "All my paperwork said 'unspecified origin,'" she says. "We spent three years of active trying before we went to IVF. First I went on Clomid. Then I had some dye tests and found I had a collapsed tube, so I had laparoscopic surgery; the tube wasn't blocked, just spasming." After three attempts at intrauterine insemination, she said, she and her husband didn't think it was worth continuing in that manner, and switched to invitro fertilization. Martie and Gareth now have two children, twin daughters Eva Ruth and Kathleen Emilie, born April 27, 2004. Currently, the two reside with their children in Austin, Texas. Maguire and Robison co-wrote a song, "So Hard", about their own personal experiences.
Academy of Country Music Awards
- (1999) New Vocal Duo or Group
- (1999) Top Vocal Duo/Group
- (1999) Album of the Year
- (2000) Album Of The Year
- (2000) Vocal Duo Of The Year
- (2001) Entertainer of The Year
- (2000) Vocal Group of The Year
- (2000) Video of the Year
Country Music Association Awards
- (1998) Vocal Group Of The Year and Horizon
- (1999) Music Video of the Year Wide Open Spaces
- (1999) Single of the Year Wide Open Spaces
- (1999) Vocal Group of the Year
- (2000) Album of the Year Fly
- (2000) Vocal Group, Video "Goodbye Earl"
- (2000) Entertainer of the Year - 2000
- (2002) Vocal Group of the Year
- (2003) International Artist Achievement Award
- (2007) Nomination: Group of the Year
Grammy Awards
- (1999) Best Country Performance (TYT)
- (1999) Best Country Album(WOS)
- (2000) Best Country Performance(RTR)
- (2000) Best Country Album(FLY) - 2000
- (2003) Best Country Performance(LTG)
- (2003) Best Country Instrumental Performance "Lil' Jack Slade"
- (2003) Best Country Album(Home)
- (2003) Best Recording Package(Home)
- (2005) Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal (TOTW)
- (2007) Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal (NRTMN)
- (2007) Song Of The Year (NRTMN)
- (2007) Best Country Album (TTLW)
- (2007) Record Of The Year (NRTMN)
- (2007) Album Of The Year (TTLW)
Studio albums: Thank Heavens for Dale Evans | Little Ol' Cowgirl | Shouldn't a Told You That | Wide Open Spaces | Fly | Home | Taking the Long Way |
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