By Brenda June Temple
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
The Chicks (formerly the Dixie Chicks) are an American country music band from Dallas, Texas. Since 1995, the band has consisted of Natalie Maines (lead vocals, guitar) and sisters Martie Maguire (vocals, fiddle, mandolin, guitar) and Emily Strayer (vocals, guitar, banjo, Dobro). Maguire and Strayer, both née Erwin, founded the band in 1989 in Dallas, Texas, with bassist Laura Lynch and vocalist and guitarist Robin Lynn Macy. They performed bluegrass and country music, busking and touring the bluegrass festival circuits and small venues for six years without attracting a major label. In 1992, Macy left and Lynch became the lead vocalist.
Upon signing with Monument Records Nashville in 1997 and replacing Lynch with Maines, the Dixie Chicks achieved success with their albums Wide Open Spaces (1998) and Fly (1999).
On December 22, 2023, Laura Lynch, a member of the Dixie Chicks until 1993, died in a traffic collision near El Paso, Texas, at the age of 65. The Chicks issued a statement saying Lynch was “a bright light” whose “undeniable talents helped propel us beyond busking on street corners to stages all across Texas and the mid-West”.
According to a report that was published by TMZ in a statement that she provided to the publication, her cousin mentioned that she was currently on her way to spend Christmas with her respective family members
