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It's hard to imagine a happier or more successful musical
couple than the husband/wife team of Mark Selby and Tia
Sillers. As songwriters, they've penned over a dozen hit
singles including There's Your Trouble, the Dixie
Chicks' Grammy-winning number one smash, and Kenny Wayne
Shepherd's Blue On Black, which topped the rock and
blues charts for an amazing 17 weeks and was named Billboard
Magazine's Rock Track of the Year. Tia's discography also
includes hits for country icons like Alan Jackson ( That'll
Be Alright) and Pam Tillis ( Land Of the Living),
but she's perhaps best known as the writer of I Hope You
Dance, the life affirming anthem that has touched
countless lives and won countless accolades, including a
Grammy award for Best Country Song. A huge county and pop hit
in America for Lee Ann Womack, I Hope You Dance was
recently a top ten hit in Europe for Irish singer Ronan
Keating. Tia has written four best-selling books inspired by
the song as well. Mark, meanwhile, has showcased his guitar
wizardry and soulful vocals on two internationally-acclaimed
albums for the Vanguard label, toured with many of his musical
heroes, including B.B. King and Jeff Beck, and can often be
found in various Nashville recording studios, working as a
session player and producer.
In concert together, Mark and Tia are a captivating and
truly entertaining duo. Their music continues to take them all
over the world, sharing with audiences the same excitement and
passionate artistry that is the hallmark of their songs. |
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"The great
thing about being a songwriter is that it enables you to slip
out of your skin and have so many other voices," says
tunesmith Tia Sillers. " I could never sing a Merle Haggard
song, but I'd like to think I could write one."
As a Nashville teenager, Sillers got to hang
out at the world renowned live music venue Bluebird Cafe.
There she heard local writers like Don Schlitz and Alan
Shamblin perform their music and she was mesmerized. Thinking
herself a music lover and not a music writer, she went off to
college in North Carolina and completed undergraduate degrees
in English and Fine Arts, a Masters in Business Communications
and also spent a semester in England interning for the BBC.
Somewhere along the way she saw the light and came back to
Nashville to pursue a publishing deal. Sillers capitalized in
a diversity of influences and experiences that ultimately
helped her craft some of the most poignant songs to emerge
from Music Row.
Her song " I Hope You Dance", initially
recorded by LeeAnn Womack, struck an emotional chord with
listeners by capturing the essence of experiencing life. The
song received national exposure on television with Oprah and
in articles in Newsweek and the New York Times, as well as
being performed at the Nobel Prize awards ceremony. It went on
to win every conceivable award including the Grammy, CMA, ACM,
NSAI, ASCAP and BMI song of the year. "I Hope You Dance"
inspired a series of gift books of the same title that became
bestsellers. The song also enjoyed success in Europe and South
America with the artist Ronan Keating and has been recorded by
Gladys
Knight for then movie "The
Family That Preys."
Sillers has also had many cuts by other
artists including Alan Jackson ( "That'd Be Alright" -- #1),
The Dixie Chicks ( "There's Your Trouble" -- #1 and Grammy
Nominated), Pam Tillis ( "Land of the Living" -- Top 5),
Trisha Yearwood ("Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love"
--Top 20 and Grammy Nominated) and Kenny Wayne Shepherd (
"Last Goodbye" -- Top 5, "Was" --Top 5, "Blue On Black" --
#1). Not only did "Blue on Black" hold the number one spot on
the rock charts for 17 weeks, it was also the 1998 Billboard
Rock Song of the Year. Other artists to have recorded Sillers
songs include Martina McBride, Trace Atkins, Trisha Yearwood,
Diamond Rio, Wynonna, Patty Loveless, Sister
Hazel, Vince
Gill, Crystal Shawanda and Gabe Dixon .
Sillers divides her time between Nashville,
her Rocky Mountain getaway in Estes Park, CO. and doing a
select number of performances at festivals and listening
venues across North America and Europe. She is married to her
frequent collaborator, singer-songwriter Mark Selby and has a
sleek black cat named Mortimer Merle. Her father Bob is
co-owner of Caffe Nonna --the best little Italian restaurant
in Nashville. She is proud to call Ten Ten Music her
publisher.
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