Matraca berg biography

American singer-songwriter (born )

Musical artist

Matraca Maria Berg Hanna (;^[3] born February 3, , in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American country music singer and songwriter.

She has released five albums: three for RCA Records, one for Rising Tide Records and one for Dualtone Records, and has charted in the top 40 of the U.S. Billboard country charts with "Baby, Walk On" and "The Things You Left Undone," both at No.&#; Besides most of her own material, Berg has written hits for T.G.

Sheppard, Karen Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Deana Carter, Patty Loveless, Kenny Chesney and others. In she was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and in she received the Poet's Award from the Academy of Country Music Awards.

Early history

Matraca Maria Berg was born February 3, , in Nashville, Tennessee.^[1] Berg's mother, Icie Calloway,^[4] moved from Harlan County, Kentucky, to Nashville in the s to seek her fortune as a singer and