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Lynch is best known for co-founding The Dixie Chicks in 1989 with Strayer, Maguire and Robin Lynn Macy. She played the upright bass and sang lead vocals for a bit before exiting the group in 1992.
Natalie Louise Maines [1] (born October 14, 1974) [2] [3] is an American musician. She is the lead vocalist for the country band the Chicks . In 1995, after leaving Berklee College of Music , Maines was recruited by the Dixie Chicks to replace their lead singer, Laura Lynch.
UPDATE: 12/23, 7 p.m. ET — Current members of The Chicks, Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer, released a statement after learning of Laura Lynch’s sudden death. “We are shocked ...
The Chicks (formerly the Dixie Chicks) are an American country band from Dallas, Texas. The band consists of Natalie Maines (lead vocals, guitar, bass guitar) and sisters Martie Maguire (vocals, fiddle, mandolin, guitar) and Emily Strayer (vocals, guitar, banjo, Dobro). Martie and Emily, both née Erwin, founded the band in 1989, with bassist ...
The US band was originally founded as The Dixie Chicks by Martie Maguire, Emily Strayer, Lynch and Robin Lynn Macy. Macy later left the group and Lynch was replaced by Natalie Maines.
After her second marriage, Martie changed her name to that of her new husband, which is why in her musical career she has been credited by all three of her surnames: Erwin, Seidel, and Maguire. Martie and her second husband had three daughters together. [26] Their third daughter was born in 2008. The couple divorced in 2013. [27]
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Emily and Martie's instrumental virtuosity set the Dixie Chicks apart from many other country acts, male and female. Emily's songwriting has also been a factor in the Chicks' recording career. Emily stood by Maines when the controversy over Maines' remarks about U.S. President George W. Bush hit the newswire on the eve before the Iraq War in ...