Mary Kaye is a multiple award winning Western Entertainer and tours extensively throughout the Western United States and Canada. She is a native born Texan and as a young woman ventured off to Utah where she "married her a cowboy.” Her husband’s family has deep Western roots that go back six generations. Mary Kaye now resides on a century old pioneer homestead in a small Western town in central Utah where her large family is involved in cowboying, horse training, and all things Western. She has been married to her husband Brad for 26 years, they have ten children.Recently Mary Kaye was recognized by True West Magazine as the 2013 "Best Solo Musician” of the year as well as receiving a 2013 Spur Award for "Best Western Song" from the Western Writer's of America. She was also awarded the 2012 Song of the Year, with cowboy poet Les Buffham, from the Western Music Association for their song, "No Wilder Place." In addition, she is the Academy of Western Artists' 2011 Western Female Performer of the Year and the Western Music Association’s 2010 Female Vocalist of the Year.
Mary Kaye's 2012 album, No Wilder Place, received excellent reviews in the Western Horseman and American Cowboy magazines and debuted on the Western Music Charts at #1. Her 2010 release, Clean Outta Luck, was on the Western Music Charts for 12 months, went as high as #4 on the charts, and garnered a Song of the Year nomination from the WMA. She has just released her latest Western album, The Dawn and The Dusk, to rave revues.
Well known Western artist Maynard Dixon declared, "The spirit of the West sings in every soul." Mary Kaye believes this and shares this spirit in every performance.
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beautiful voice!
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