Her musical style takes influence from contemporary country and folk, with many of her songs including feminist themes. She has charted 27 times on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, with her 1994 single ' Shut Up and Kiss Me' representing her only number-one single there. She continued to record for Zoë until departing to her own Lambent Light label in 2015.Ĭarpenter has won five Grammy Awards, from 18 nominations, including four consecutive wins in the category of Best Female Country Vocal Performance between 19. Her first album for this label was 2007's The Calling. After a number of commercially unsuccessful albums throughout the first decade of the 21st century, she exited Columbia for Zoë Records.

Her follow up album, Stones in the Road, appeared two years later and won Carpenter the Grammy Award for Best Country Album, while going double platinum for shipments of two million copies.

She broke through with 1989's State of the Heart and 1990's Shooting Straight in the Dark.Ĭarpenter's most successful album is 1992's Come On Come On, which accounted for seven singles and was certified quadruple platinum in the United States for shipments of four million copies. Carpenter's first album, 1987's Hometown Girl, did not produce any charting singles. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C.-area clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records. Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21, 1958) is an American country and folk music singer-songwriter.

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