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The Dixie Chicks have been performing since 1989, shortly after Emily and Martie started busking on the streets of Dallas, Texas. Emily plays banjo, dobro, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, papoose, accordion, sitar and sings background vocals in the group. Emily is married to country singer Charlie Robison. They have three children, Charles Augustus, also known as "Gus", born November 11, 2002; and twins Julianna Tex and Henry Benjamin, born April 14, 2005.
She is a 1992 graduate of Lubbock High School. Natalie is the daughter of country musician Lloyd Maines. She is married to actor Adrian Pasdar; they have two children, Jackson Slade Pasdar (born March 15, 2001) and Beckett Finn Pasdar (born July 14, 2004). Natalie joined the all-female country music group The Dixie Chicks in 1995. The group had been performing since 1989. She is the lead singer in the group and also plays acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric bass, papoose and omnichord.
Martie is a founding member of the Dixie Chicks along with her sister Emily Robison and two other members who have since left the band and been replaced by Natalie Maines. The group has been performing since 1989. Martie plays fiddle, mandolin, viola and sings background vocals in the group. She married Gareth Maguire, a Roman Catholic from Northern Ireland in a civil ceremony in Hawaii, before a Catholic "blessing" ceremony was held in the groom's hometown in County Antrim. Erwin said that the Catholic Church would not permit a wedding service due to her prior marriage which ended in divorce. She also said that some of her husband's co-religionists had referred to her as a "heathen". It is not clear whether she agreed to raise their children as Catholics. During promotion of the album Home, the Dixie Chicks made frequent reference to the fact that "White Trash Wedding" was written about Martie and Gareth's nuptuals. Martie and Gareth have two children, twin daughters Eva Ruth and Kathleen Emilie, born April 27, 2004. |
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Emily Robison, (neé Erwin), (born August 16, 1972) is an American country songwriter, recording artist and musician, born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, raised in Texas and currently residing on a ranch near Bandera, Texas northwest of San Antonio. Emily and her sister, Martie Erwin, are founding members of the Dixie Chicks.
Martie Maguire, (neé Erwin), (born October 12, 1969) is an American country music songwriter, recording artist and musician, born in Dallas, Texas and currently residing in Austin, Texas. Martie and her sister Emily started busking on the streets of Dallas, Texas back in 1989.