DIXIE CHICKS
Name: Dixie Chicks
Origin: Dallas, Texas, United States,
The Dixie Chicks are a country rock band from the United States composed of
three women: Emily Robison, Martie Maguire and Natalie Maines. They are the
highest-selling female band in any musical genre, having sold 36 million albums
as of June 2006.
The group formed in 1989 in Dallas, Texas. After several years of failure to
reach a large audience outside a local fan base, a change in band members and
new approach towards their material rocketed the band toward massive country and
pop success in the late 1990s. With hit songs and diamond albums, the women
became well-known for their lively persona, instrumental virtuosity, soaring
ballads, fashion sense and outspoken political comments. As of 2007, they have
won 13 Grammy Awards.
Ten days before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, lead vocalist Natalie Maines publicly
criticized U.S. President George W. Bush. The ensuing controversy cost the group
half of their concert audience attendance in the United States as chronicled
in the 2006 documentary Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing.
At the 49th Grammy Awards Show in 2007, the group won all five categories for
which they were nominated, including the coveted Song of the Year, Record of the
Year, and Album of the Year, in a vote that Maines interpreted as being a show
of public support for their advocacy of free speech and their early disapproval
of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.
Name: Dixie Chicks
Origin: Dallas, Texas, United States,
The Dixie Chicks are a country rock band from the United States composed of
three women: Emily Robison, Martie Maguire and Natalie Maines. They are the
highest-selling female band in any musical genre, having sold 36 million albums
as of June 2006.
The group formed in 1989 in Dallas, Texas. After several years of failure to
reach a large audience outside a local fan base, a change in band members and
new approach towards their material rocketed the band toward massive country and
pop success in the late 1990s. With hit songs and diamond albums, the women
became well-known for their lively persona, instrumental virtuosity, soaring
ballads, fashion sense and outspoken political comments. As of 2007, they have
won 13 Grammy Awards.
Ten days before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, lead vocalist Natalie Maines publicly
criticized U.S. President George W. Bush. The ensuing controversy cost the group
half of their concert audience attendance in the United States as chronicled
in the 2006 documentary Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing.
At the 49th Grammy Awards Show in 2007, the group won all five categories for
which they were nominated, including the coveted Song of the Year, Record of the
Year, and Album of the Year, in a vote that Maines interpreted as being a show
of public support for their advocacy of free speech and their early disapproval
of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.