Martie Maguire
Martha Eleanor " Martie " Maguire (born 12 October 1969 in York, Pennsylvania) is an American musician. She is a founding member of the country band Dixie Chicks and co-wrote several songs of the band, some of which were top hits on the charts.
Some songs she performed as the main singer, but mostly she sings along with her sister Emily Robison backing vocals. It provides essentially for the orchestration and the arrangements of the band.
Childhood
Martie is the daughter of Barbara Trask and Paul Erwin. She grew up in Addison, a suburb of Dallas. She has an older and a younger sister (Julia, born in 1967, and Emily, born in 1972 ). Encouraged by her parents, both teachers at private schools, she began playing classical violin at age five. At twelve, she learned on a birthday gift of own violin to fiddle style.
Early career
Maguire began her musical career already in the school orchestra. From a young age, she learned to play several instruments and perfected her technique along with her sister Emily, by playing with two other classmates over five years in a high-school bluegrass quartet. In addition to the violin, she plays a variety of stringed instruments, including viola, mandolin, bass and guitar.
The sisters had a great interest in street music, visited many bluegrass festivals and played music together with the siblings Troy and Sharon Gilchrist. From 1984 to 1989, the four students played as a bluegrass band " Blue Night Express" while she was still the Greenhill School attended the private in Addison ( Texas). 1987 Maguire won second place in the annual national competition for violin in Winfield (Kansas). After her high school she studied from 1988 to 1989 at Southern Methodist University in Dallas (Texas ). In 1989, she reached the national competition for violin on the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield also the third place.
Dixie Chicks
After graduating from high school she founded in 1989 along with her sister Emily, Laura Lynch and Robin Lynn Macy, the Dixie Chicks. They played together for six years in the music scene from Dallas ( Texas) Bluegrass, Country and Western music as street musicians and tourist Bluegrass Festival. After the departure of Macy and as a replacement for Lynch came in 1995, the singer and songwriter Natalie Maines to the band, expanding their repertoire. The trio has more than 30 million albums sold the most successful all-female band in the U.S..
Private life and other activities
Martie Maguire is married to the teacher and actor Gareth Maguire from Northern Ireland since 2001, the two have three daughters.
2010 published Martie Maguire and her sister Emily Robison Album Courtyard Hounds
Awards
Discography
→ Main article Dixie Chicks
- 2010 Court Yard Hounds