They told me that you may not come, but I knew you'd come.
"Natalie Louise Maines Pasdar" is an American singer-songwriter and activist who achieved success as the lead vocalist for the female alternative country band the Dixie Chicks. Born in Lubbock, Texas, Maines considers herself a rebel who "loved not thinking in the way I knew the majority of people thought."
In 1995, after leaving Berklee College of Music, Maines was recruited by the Dixie Chicks to replace their lead singer, Laura Lynch. With Maines as lead vocalist, the band earned 10 Country Music Association Awards and 13 Grammy Awards for their work between 1998 and 2007.
On the eve of the 2003 invasion of Iraq/Iraq invasion, while in concert in London for the 2003 Top of the World Tour, Maines commented that the Dixie Chicks were "ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas." Negative public reaction in the United States to this comment resulted in boycotts by country music radio stations and death threats.
In 2006, with Maines still acting as lead singer, the Dixie Chicks released Taking the Long Way. The album subsequently won five Grammy Awards (including Grammy Award for Album of the Year/Album of the Year).
Maines released her solo album, Mother (Natalie Maines album)/Mother, on May 7, 2013.
More Natalie Maines on Wikipedia.It was the wrong wording with genuine emotion and questions and concern behind it. [But] am I sorry that I asked questions and that I just don't follow? No.
We finally got on the front row of an awards show.
Ecstatic about the news.
If I did that, Bush would call me a flip-flopper, ... So I'm sticking to it!
[The group's involvement with Rock the Vote, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization founded in 1990, is an indirect result of the Bush uproar.] We never had intentions to become a political band but like it or not we have been placed on a unique political platform in the past months, ... We feel it would be irresponsible not to make something positive come out of that.
And we were, and it was awesome!
It's a funny song and a funny video about a very serious topic. A lot of women die at the hands of their husbands.
This is our first time back in Europe since the 'incident.
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