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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.

Mark Selby & Tia Sillers

2006 RECENT NEWS:

     Recent notable performances include the Belfast Songwriter Festival, Delbert McLinton's Sandy Beaches Cruise in the Caribbean, and the Guitar Town and Copper Country festivals in Colorado. Mark recently had his first radio hit as a record producer with the Keni Thomas single "Not Me", featuring guest vocal performances by Vince Gill and Emmlyou Harris. Songs by Tia and Mark appear on new releases by JoDee Messina and Trisha Yearwood. Tia's CD "Sweet Old Songs" was released in 2005 and features 14 new songs plus her inspired version of "I Hope You Dance". "Mark Selby...And The Horse He Rode In On", a solo acoustic CD, is slated for release in April, 2006.


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Tia Sillers

There is absolutely nothing average about Tia Sillers. Born in Stanford, CT but raised in Nashville, Tia Sillers' family inspired her to create. Her father is a painter, her mother a writer and as she says with that background, "I was never afraid to try songwriting." First of all, she wrote her first hit song right out of college ("Lipstick Promises," with George Ducas). She has the unusual distinction of having "Blue On Black," which she co-wrote with her best friend Mark Selby and blues artist Kenny Wayne Shepherd, holding the record as the longest number one in rock chart history: a whopping 17 weeks.

A Fine Arts major (UNC Chapel Hill), this Nashville native has also done pretty well on the country charts. She co-wrote Pam Tillis's number one "Land of the Living" and the Dixie Chicks' mega-hit "There's Your Trouble." And now, she's entering uncharted territory again with the attention-getting ode to living life to its fullest, "I Hope You Dance," recorded by Lee Ann Womack. In addition to holding the top spot on both the Billboard and R&R charts for five weeks (at this writing), the song has earned a CMA Song of the Year nomination and has struck a chord nationwide. It is used at graduations, christenings and marriages, and was also used in a video to honor the slain students at Columbine, an honor that Sillers says tops them all.

She doesn't write the way others do, either. She plays guitar and piano well enough to pick out melodies, she says, but writes primarily "in her head."

"I think in a cadence," she says. "Things seem to meter out. When I write a song, it automatically takes a melody in my head."

And if all that weren't enough, she calls herself "indomitably happy." Which just might be the secret to it all.

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. So far in 2005 she's already been on the Delbert McClinton Cruise, played a Festival in Zihuatineho, Mexico and done shows at Atlanta's famed venue Swallow in the Hollow. She is married to her frequent collaborator, singer-songwriter- recording artist 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 has been proud to call Famous Music her publisher for the last eight years and looks forward to her next adventure in music and life.

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