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Thompson Square emerged as an early winner at the Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas. ACM CEO Bob Romeo surprised the husband-and-wife duo of Keifer and Shawna Thompson with the news during Saturday night’s (March 31) ACM Salute to the Military concert. In winning the vocal duo of [...]
Had the audience been less jaded and the production more cohesive, the New Faces Show that concluded Country Radio Seminar Friday night (Feb. 24) at the Nashville Convention Center could have been a dazzling piece of entertainment. Instead, the event just limped along, as it did last year, alternating between [...]
Thompson Square have canceled an appearance at the Country Radio Seminar’s New Faces Show in Nashville and two tour dates this weekend with Lady Antebellum following Thursday’s (Feb. 23) death of Shawna Thompson’s father. In a written statement issued Friday, the duo’s publicist said, “It is with a heavy heart [...]
Although they’re practically inseparable, Thompson Square‘s Keifer and Shawna Thompson weren’t together when they landed their first Grammy nomination this year. Shawna was in her pajamas while Keifer was hanging out with friends in downtown Nashville. Then their manager called with the big news: “Are You Gonna Kiss Me or [...]
(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that’s happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.) Have you ever taken such a cool picture of Thompson Square or Chris Young or Jason Aldean that you thought it should be on the cover of Rolling [...]
Biography
Husband and wife Keifer and Shawna Thompson formed Thompson Square as a duo in 2002 after previously seeking solo careers. Keifer was raised in Miami, Okla., where he listened to classic country, punk rock and heavy metal before gravitating toward singer-songwriters such as Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty. Shawna grew up in Chatom, Ala., a small town near the Mississippi state line, and learned traditional country songs from her guitar-playing father while taking a particular interest in the music of Reba McEntire and Alabama. Keifer and Shawna moved to Nashville within the same week and met at a singing competition a few days later. In 2009, Thompson Square signed with Stoney Creek Records, a sister label of Nashville-based Broken Bow Records. In 2010, they released their first single for the label, “Let’s Fight,” and followed it up with “Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not.”