Martina Mcbride Bio | Wiki
Martina McBride ( Full name: Martina Mariea McBride) is an American record producer and country music singer-songwriter. She is best known for her soprano singing range as well as her country pop material. Martina signed to RCA Records in 1991. She made her debut as a neo-traditionalist country singer with the single, “The Time Has Come” in 1992.
Martina developed a pop-styled crossover sound over time that was similar to Shania Twain and Faith Hill. Also, she had a string of major hit singles on the Billboard country chart. Martina’s singles occasionally appeared on the adult contemporary chart. Between 1995 and 2001, 5 of these singles went to No. 1 on the country chart. In 2003, one of those singles peaked at No. 1 on the adult contemporary chart. Currently, Martina runs fourteen studio albums, two greatest hits compilations, two additional compilation albums, and one “live” album.
8 of those studio albums and2 of the compilations have an RIAA Gold certification or higher. She has sold over 14 million albums in the United States of America. Apart from that, Martina is a four-time winner of the Country Music Association’s “Female Vocalist of the Year” award. She tied with Reba McEntire for the third-most wins. She is also a three-time winner of the Academy of Country Music’s “Top Female Vocalist” award and a 14-time Grammy Award nominee.
Martina Mcbride Age
She was born on July 29, 1966, in Sharon, Kansas, United States of America. Martina is 55 years old.
Martina Mcbride Height
She is a woman of average stature. Martina stands at a height of 5 ft 4 in ( Approx 1.6m).
Martina Mcbride Family
She was born to her parents in Sharon, Kansas. Martina grew up alongside her two brothers named Martin and Steve. They play in her concert band as of 2017. Martina also has a sister called Gina. Her parents, Daryl and Jeanne Schiff owned a dairy farm. Her father was a cabinetry shop owner and he exposed Martina to country music at a young age.
Listening to country music helped Martina acquire a love for singing. She sang for hours after school to the records of such popular artists as Connie Smith, Jeanne Pruett, Linda Ronstadt, Juice Newton, Reba McEntire, and Patsy Cline. Martina started singing with a band her father fronted called “The Schiffters” when she was around 8 years. Her role in the band progressively increased, as she grew older from simply singing, to also playing the keyboard with them.
Martina enjoyed performing in her early years. She started performing with a local rock band called The Penetrators, in Wichita instead. In 1987, Martina gathered a group of musicians called Lotus and they began looking for rehearsal space; she started renting space from studio engineer John McBride. The two married each other in 1988. The couple moved to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1989 hoping to pursue ther career in country music.
Martina Mcbride Husband
Initially, she was called Martina Schiff. She married sound engineer John McBride in 1988 at took his family name as her stage name. The couple is blessed with three daughters named Delaney Katharine, Emma Justine, and Ava Rose Kathleen. Martina reduced her touring schedule after becoming a mother so that her daughters could have a normal upbringing. Joe Galante said this was “an enormous choice in terms of money,” but Martina had made it very clear that she wanted to be present in her daughters’ lives.
Martina Mcbride Children | Daughters
She is a mother of three. Martina and her husband John McBride welcomed their first baby girl named Delaney Katharine on December 22, 1994. The couple’s second-born baby girl Emma Justine was born on March 29, 1998. On March 29, 1998, Martina gave birth to her third daughter named Ava Rose Kathleen.
Martina Mcbride Independence Day
Her third single titled “Independence Day” was prevented from reaching the Top 10 through the opposition of many radio programmers. Those programmers objected to the song’s subject of a mother burning the family home to the ground as she fight back against abuse. At the Country Music Association Awards, the single won Video of the Year and Song of the Year. Also, “Independence Day” earned the song’s composer, Gretchen Peters, a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Country Song. It as well gave Martina a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. She performed the song at the 1995 Grammys ceremony.
Martina Mcbride In My Daughter’s Eyes | This One’s For The Girls
She released her seventh studio album titled Martina in 2003 which celebrated womanhood. The first single in this album titled “This One’s for the Girls,” went to number 3 on the country charts. It also became Martina’s only number-one hit on the Adult Contemporary charts. “This One’s for the Girls” included backing vocals from Carolyn Dawn Johnson, Faith Hill, and Martina’s daughters, Delaney and Emma. She followed up with another single titled “In My Daughter’s Eyes” which also became a Top 5 hit in both country and adult contemporary.
Martina Mcbride A Broken Wing | Valentine
After “Cry on the Shoulder of the Road” peaked, Martina released two duets in early 1997, a duet with Clint Black titled “Still Holding On” which was the lead-off single to her fourth album Evolution as well as Black’s album Nothin’ but the Taillights, and “Valentine.” It was a collaboration with pop pianist Jim Brickman and it appeared on his album titled Picture This. Martina sang duet vocals on “Chances Are” with Bob Seger which featured on the soundtrack of the 1998 motion picture Hope Floats. She had her second number one on the country charts with the second single titled “A Broken Wing” from her Evolution album, in late 1997
Martina Mcbride Concrete Angel | Blessed | Where Would You Be
She released her first compilation titled Greatest Hits in 2001. The Recording Industry Association of America certified this album 3× Platinum in sales. The album is Martina’s highest-selling album. It included most of her major hits to that point as well as the album track “Strangers” from the album The Way That I Am, which Martina put on the album since she felt that it should have been a single.
Also, the album included four new songs, between 2001 and 2003, all of the four songs were Top 10 hits on the country music charts. They are “Concrete Angel” (at number 5), “Where Would You Be” (at number 3), “Blessed” (at number 1), and “When God-Fearin’ Women Get the Blues” (at number 8).
Martina Mcbride Tour | Anyway
She released her ninth studio album titled Waking Up Laughing in 2007. This album was the first album in which Martina co-wrote some of the tracks. In the same year, she set up her Waking Up Laughing Tour which included country artists such as Little Big Town, Rodney Atkins, and Jason Michael Carroll. “Anyway” was the Album’s reading single and it went to No. 5 on the Billboard Country Chart. Also, the song became Martina’s first Top 10 hit since 2003. Martina lent her voice singing “Anyway” in a Lifetime movie titled “A Life Interrupted.” The film premiered on April 23, 2007. Her follow-up single titled”How I Feel”, reached the Top 15. Martina released a CD/DVD set, Martina McBride: Live In Concert in Spring 2008. The CD was taped in September 2007, in Moline, Illinois.
Martina Mcbride I Love You
Her song titled “I Love You” was written by Keith Follesé, Adrienne Follesé, and Tammy Hyler. The song was released in July 1999 as the first single from Martina’s album titled Emotion. She originally recorded “I Love You” for the 1999 film’s soundtrack, Runaway Bride which starred Julia Roberts and Richard Gere.
Martina Mcbride Songs
All her songs have been compiled in 14 albums:
– 1992: The Time Has Come
– 1993: The Way That I Am
– 1995: Wild Angels
– 1997: Evolution
– 1998: White Christmas
– 1999: Emotion
– 2003: Martina
– 2005: Timeless
– 2007: Waking Up Laughing
– 2009: Shine
– 2011: Eleven
– 2014: Everlasting
– 2016: Reckless
– 2018: It’s the Holiday Season
Martina Mcbride Net Worth
She is an American record producer and country music singer-songwriter. Martina has accumulated an estimated net worth of $7 million.
How Old Martina Mcbride
Martina is 55 years old.She was born on July 29, 1966, in Sharon, Kansas, United States of America.
Who Is Martina Mcbride
Martina is an American record producer and country music singer-songwriter. She is best known for her soprano singing range as well as her country pop material. Martina signed to RCA Records in 1991. She made her debut as a neo-traditionalist country singer with the single, “The Time Has Come” in 1992.
Is Martina Mcbride Married
She married sound engineer John McBride in 1988 at took his family name as her stage name. The couple is blessed with three daughters named Delaney Katharine, Emma Justine, and Ava Rose Kathleen.