The Chicks

The Chicks (formerly known as the Dixie Chicks) are an American country pop group composed of singer Natalie Maines and multi-instrumentalist sisters Martie Erwin Maguire and Emily Strayer. The band formed in 1989 in Dallas, Texas, and was originally composed of four women performing bluegrass and country music, busking and touring the bluegrass festival circuits and small venues for six years without attracting a major label. After the departure of one bandmate, the replacement of their lead singer, and a change in their repertoire, the Chicks achieved commercial success, beginning in 1998 with hit songs "There's Your Trouble" and "Wide Open Spaces". The Chicks have won 13 Grammy Awards. By March 2020, with 33 million certified albums sold, and sales of 27.5 million albums in the U.S. alone, they became the best-selling female band and best-selling country group in the U.S. during the Nielsen SoundScan era (1991–present).