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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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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
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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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