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Martina McBride, Jake Owen and newcomer Hunter Hayes have joined the CMA Music Festival’s nightly concert lineup at LP Field in downtown Nashville. The CMA has also announced the current roster for each of the nightly concerts. Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum, Brad Paisley and the Zac Brown Band will perform [...]
(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) This is how I know Martina McBride‘s house is really, really clean. She has cleaning products she loves enough to blog about. So she must be good at [...]
Martina McBride, Ronnie Dunn, Emmylou Harris, Charlie Daniels and Bruce Hornsby will perform at the T.J. Martell Foundation’s Honors Gala on March 26 at Nashville’s Hutton Hotel. Hosted by Vince Gill, the event will raise awareness and funds for cancer research at 11 top hospitals in the U.S. Singer-songwriter Kris [...]
Martina McBride‘s career at RCA Nashville is spotlighted in Hits and More, a new, 20-song collection released Tuesday (Jan. 17). The album begins with McBride’s first Top 10 hit, “My Baby Loves Me” (1993), and concludes with three new tracks — “Surrender,” “Straight to the Bone” and “Being Myself.” McBride’s [...]
(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) “To heck with it.” That’s what Martina McBride says she kept thinking over the holidays when it came to indulging. “I only wear baggy, shapeless clothing starting at [...]
Biography
Martina McBride (born Martina Schiff) was born July 29, 1966, in Sharon, Kan., and grew up on a farm singing country music from the moment she could tiptoe up to a mike. Before launching her own career on RCA Records, McBride learned about life on the road by selling T-shirts at Garth Brooks concerts.
Her first album, 1992′s The Time Has Come, stumbled, but the 1993 follow-up The Way That I Am introduced her to the country audience with the upbeat single and video “My Baby Loves Me.” Another single from that album, “Independence Day,” failed to crack the Top 10. However, by singing about spousal abuse without coming off as preachy, the song has since become McBride’s signature song. The video earned a CMA award in 1994, and McBride has rarely released a single since then without an accompanying video.
The title track from 1995′s Wild Angels became her first No. 1 hit, and she joined the Grand Ole Opry that same year. She continued to rack up hits — including “A Broken Wing,” “Happy Girl,” “Wrong Again,” “Whatever You Say,” “I Love You” and “Love’s the Only House” — and captured her first CMA female vocalist award in 1999.
She took her second CMA female vocalist trophy in 2002, on the strength of her Greatest Hits package, with the new singles “When God-Fearin’ Women Get the Blues,” and a studio album, Martina, followed in 2003. She also won the CMA female vocalist trophy in 2003 and 2004.
In 2005, McBride covered an album’s worth of country classics on Timeless.