Martha Elenor Maguire is an American musician who is a founding member of both the all-female alternative country band The Chicks and country bluegrass duo Court Yard Hounds.
20 Facts About Martie Maguire
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Martie Maguire won awards in national fiddle championships while still a teenager.
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Martie Maguire is accomplished on several other instruments, including the mandolin, viola, double bass and guitar.
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Martie Maguire has written and co-written a number of the band's songs, some of which have become chart-topping hits.
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Martie Maguire contributes her skills in vocal harmony and backing vocals, as well as orchestrating string arrangements for the band.
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Martha Elenor Erwin, nicknamed Martie Maguire, was born October 12,1969, in York, Pennsylvania.
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Martie Maguire composes songs and arranges the use of stringed instruments for concert and recording performances.
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In 1987, Martie Maguire was awarded second place for the fiddle in the National fiddle championships held yearly in Winfield, Kansas.
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Martie Maguire performed in the school orchestra there and again competed in the national fiddle championships at the Walnut Valley Festival, in Winfield, earning third place that year.
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Martie Maguire had begun writing and recording songs on their debut independent album, Thank Heavens for Dale Evans, and in 2001, one song co-written with Laura Lynch called "Pink Toenails" resurfaced.
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Martie Maguire co-wrote the song, "Cowboy Take Me Away" on the Chicks' album Fly for her sister Emily.
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In 2003, Martie Maguire was nominated for a Tony Award for co-composing the film score to Urban Cowboy; the musical used her "Cowboy Take Me Away".
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Martie Maguire married pharmaceutical representative Ted Seidel on June 17,1995, and changed her last name to Seidel.
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At bandmate Natalie Maines' sister Kim's wedding, Martie met Gareth Maguire, a Roman Catholic teacher and actor from Carnlough, Northern Ireland.
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Martie Maguire said of the ceremony that the Catholic Church would not permit a wedding service due to her prior divorce.
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Martie Maguire said that there were many "special" people that they had wanted to include, but that they just could not wait to marry.
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Martie Maguire and her second husband had three daughters together: fraternal twins Eva Ruth and Kathleen 'Katie' Emilie were born April 27,2004.
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In February 2022, it was revealed Martie Maguire is married to Clem Moore.
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Martie Maguire has been frank about using in vitro fertilization to conceive their daughters.
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Natalie Maines has noted that she and Martie Maguire learned Transcendental Meditation in the mid-1990s.