Lee Ann Womack - 100% match to Martina McBride
19 August 1966, Jacksonville, Texas, USA. A contemporary country artist fired by traditional songwriting virtues, Lee Ann Womack earned widespread praise in the late 90s for her fidelity to country music of a bygone era. Her materials resemblance to early works by Tammy Wynette and Dolly Parton was remarked upon by many, and acknowledged in print by the artist herself. Read more
Sara Evans - 99% match to Martina McBride
5 February 1971, New Franklin, Missouri, USA. Country singer Evans got her start in music by singing with her impoverished rural family from the age of four. In 1992 she married and moved to Oregon, working alongside a band entitled North Santiam. They opened shows for artists including Tim McGraw and Willie Nelson. However, Evans elected to launch a solo career instead, rel Read more
Reba McEntire - 88% match to Martina McBride
28 March 1955, Chockie, Oklahoma, USA. One of four children, McEntires family owned a 7, 000-acre ranch and participated in rodeos, a background which later inspired the song Daddy. She sang with her sister Susie and brother Pake McEntire as the Singing McEntires, and in 1972, they recorded for the small Boss label. In 1974, she was asked to sing The Read more
Faith Hill - 84% match to Martina McBride
Audrey Faith Perry, 21 September, 1967, Jackson, Mississippi, USA. Raised in the small town of Star, Mississippi, USA, this popular country singer was singing at family gatherings from the age of three. She was influenced by Reba McEntire and formed her first band when she was 17 years old, performing at local rodeos. She moved to Nashville in 1989 and her first job was sell Read more
Trisha Yearwood - 83% match to Martina McBride
Patricia Lynn Yearwood, 19 September 1964, Monticello, Georgia, USA. During the mid-90s Yearwood became a figurehead of the new wave of highly creative female country singers, including Suzy Bogguss, Kathy Mattea and Mary Chapin Carpenter, who breathed exciting new life into an old formula.In 1985, Yearwood started working as a session singer in Nashv Read more
Jo Dee Messina - 73% match to Martina McBride
25 August 1970, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA. Singer-songwriter Jo Dee Messina began her career as a teenager playing in local country bands around New England. By the age of 19 she had decamped to Nashville, where she struggled on the local talent show circuit. Eventually producer James Stroud at Curb Records took a chance on her. She finally announced herself with the US Read more
Kellie Pickler - 66% match to Martina McBride
28 June 1986, Albemarle, North Carolina, USA. This country pop singer owed her career to the power of reality television in the late 00s, with even distant runners-up earning recording contracts and prominent public profiles. Pickler had what many consider a classic country singers upbringing, raised by her grandparents in the small North Carolina town of Palestine aft Read more
Terri Clark - 61% match to Martina McBride
Terri Lynne Sauson, 5 August 1968, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. During the late 90s singer-songwriter Clark offered a serious challenge to Shania Twain and Michelle Wright for the title of most successful Canadian country export. Raised in Medicine Hat, Clark comes from a musical family: her maternal grandparents, Ray and Betty Gauthier, were popular country performers in Canad Read more
Sugarland - 59% match to Martina McBride
Atlanta, Georgia, USA-based country band formed by three established singer-songwriters, Jennifer Nettles (12 September 1974, Douglas, Georgia, USA), Kristen Hall and Kristian Bush (b. 14 March 1970, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA). Hall had already recorded several folk-based solo albums by the time she joined up with Nettles and Bush, who had in turn enjoyed modest success on t Read more
Leann Rimes - 56% match to Martina McBride
Margaret LeAnn Rimes, 28 August 1982, Jackson, Mississippi, USA. Rimes father, Wilbur, was a part-time guitarist and, with his encouragement, LeAnn was singing and tap-dancing when aged only two and winning talent contests when five. The family moved to Texas and she sang The Star-Spangled Banner at various sports events and the National Cutting Horse Champ Read more
Carrie Underwood - 52% match to Martina McBride
Carrie Marie Underwood, 10 March 1983, Checotah, Oklahoma, USA. Underwood made her name as the winner of the fourth season of the highly rated Fox TV reality show American Idol, in the process becoming the first country-influenced artist to succeed in the series. Born and raised on a farm in rural Checotah, she grew up listening to both pop and country and learned to play gu Read more
Miranda Lambert - 52% match to Martina McBride
10 November 1983, Longview, Texas, USA. The daughter of guitarist and songwriter Rick Lambert, country singer-songwriter Miranda Lambert was destined to follow her father into a career in music. She began writing songs and before leaving high school had become a regular performer at local country music talent shows, and was even invited to take part in a demo session in Nash Read more
Shedaisy - 52% match to Martina McBride
The huge success of the Dixie Chicks in the late 90s opened up the contemporary country market for other female country acts, the most successful of which was this family trio from Magna, Utah, USA. The Osborn sisters, Kristyn (24 August 1970), Kelsi (b. 21 November 1974) and Kassidy (b. 30 October 1976), were harmonising together from an early age, either in the family home Read more
Chely Wright - 51% match to Martina McBride
25 October 1970, Wellesville, Kansas, USA. As a child the 90s country singer Chely Wright wanted to be a star and aged 11 she had her first band. When she was 18 she was working at Opryland USA in Nashville where she met songwriters and musicians. When times were tough, she would say, This will be great when they do the movie of my life. She pestered producer Har Read more
Tim McGraw - 51% match to Martina McBride
Samuel Timothy Smith, 1 May 1967, Delhi, Louisiana, USA. This highly popular country singer was raised in Start, Louisiana, and is the son of Frank Edwin Tug McGraw, a noted left-handed relief pitcher for the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies, who retired in 1984 after a 19-year major league baseball career. Tim began his musical career singing in local clu Read more |
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