Mary Chapin Carpenter

Mary Chapin Carpenter is an American singer, songwriter and musician. Her most successful album Come On Come On, released in 1992, which was certified quadruple platinum in the U.S. for sales exceeding four million copies. She 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.

She has released thirteen studio albums, four compilation albums, three video albums, forty one singles, fifteen music videos and eighty six other appearances. In 1987, she releasing her debut studio album Hometown Girl. In 1989, Carpenter's second studio album State of the Heart featured the singles, "Never Had It So Good" and "Quittin' Time". Shooting Straight in the Dark was released in 1990 and certified platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America. "Down at the Twist and Shout" won the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1992.

Carpenter released Come on Come On in 1992 and featured the singles "I Feel Lucky, "Passionate Kisses, and "He Thinks He'll Keep Her". Her fifth album was Stones in the Road released in 1994w ith the lead single "Shut Up and Kiss Me". Her sixth studio release, A Place in the World, was released in 1996.

Carpenter seventh studio album, Time* Sex* Love*, was released in 2001 and was nominated by the Grammy Awards in 2002 for Best-Engineered Album. Between Here and Gone was released in 2004 followed by The Calling in 2007. The Age of Miracles was released in 2010 followedby Ashes and Roses in 2012 and Songs from the Movie, an album of orchestral music, in 2014.

Carpenter has sold about 8.5 million records according to the Recording Industry Association of America.