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The Chicks are taking time this weekend to pay tribute to their late former founding member Laura Lynch.
Members of the band beforehand often known as The Dixie Chicks posted an announcement Saturday to their official Instagram web page, the place they shared video of Lynch singing and enjoying with the band, writing they “are shocked and saddened to study” of her demise.
“We maintain a particular place in our hearts for the time we spent enjoying music, laughing and touring collectively. Laura was a vivid mild…her infectious vitality and humor gave a spark to the early days of our band,” the submit continued.
“Laura had a present for design, a love of all issues Texas and was instrumental within the early success of the band. Her plain skills helped propel us past busking on avenue corners to levels all throughout Texas and the mid-West.”
The submit was signed “Emily, Martie & Natalie,” for the Chicks’ present members, Emily Strayer, Martie Maguire and Natalie Maines.
Lynch was concerned in a automobile crash Friday night time in Hudspeth County, Texas, in keeping with CNN affiliate KDBC, citing a police report. One other automobile drove into Lynch’s lane, placing her automobile head-on, KDBC reported. The crash passed off close to the city of Cornudas, roughly 60 miles east of El Paso.
Strayer and Maguire based the Dixie Chicks in 1989 with Lynch and Robin Lynn Macy.
In 1992, Macy left the band, and Maines later changed Lynch as lead vocalist.
The band broke by commercially with their fourth album “Vast Open Areas” in 1998, the primary to function Maines.