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Mary Chapin Carpenter (born February 21, 1958) is an American country music artist. Carpenter spent several years singing in Washington, D.C. clubs before signing in the late 1980s with Columbia Records, who marketed her as a country singer. Carpenter's first album, 1987's ''Hometown Girl'', did not produce any singles, although 1989's ''State of the Heart (Mary Chapin Carpenter album)|State of the Heart'' and 1990's ''Shooting Straight in the Dark'' each produced four Top 20 hits on the ''Billboard'' country singles charts.
Carpenter's most successful album to date remains 1992's ''Come On Come On'', which yielded seven charting country singles and was certified Music recording sales certification|quadruple platinum in the U.S. for sales exceeding four million copies. She followed it with ''Stones in the Road'' (1994) and ''A Place in the World (album)|A Place in the World'' (1996), which both featured hit singles. In the 2000s, Carpenter's albums departed both thematically and musically from her early work, becoming less radio-friendly and more focused on societal and political issues. Her most recent, and most topical album to date, ''The Calling'', was released in March 2007.
Carpenter has won five Grammy Awards, and is the only artist to have won four consecutive Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, which she received from 1992 to 1995.<ref na... read all
