RodeoHouston® appearances: 1996, 2001 – '08, '11, '13
Martina McBride’s 20-year career has included 11 studio albums and four headlining tours. This Kansas-born-and-raised artist connects with her fans by singing about real-life situations, both hard times and happy ones.
Her breakout single, “My Baby Loves Me,” from her second album, “The Way That I Am,” peaked at No. 2 on the country top 10 charts. The third single from that same album, and one of McBride’s most memorable hits, “Independence Day,” earned her a GRAMMY nomination. Although the song was seen by some radio stations as sensitive subject matter — a battered woman fighting back by burning her family home to the ground — it helped put McBride on the map, and she has gone on to win more than 15 country and American music awards, and she’s tied with Reba for the most CMA Female Vocalist of the Year wins.
Singles: “The Time Has Come,” “My Baby Loves Me,” “Life at #9,” “Independence Day,” “ Safe in the Arms of Love,” “Wild Angels,” “A Broken Wing,” “Valentine,” “There You Are,” “When God-Fearin’ Women Get the Blues,” “Concrete Angel,” “This One’s for the Girls,” “In My Daughter’s Eyes,” “(I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden,” “Anyway,” “Wrong Baby Wrong,” “Teenage Daughters,” “I’m Gonna Love You Through It”