Natalie Maines

Natalie Maines is a country music singer/songwriter and the lead vocalist for the popular country group the Dixie Chicks. Maines has been a vocal critic of The Bush Administration and has courted controversy with her outspoken views.

Maines is being sued by a Arkansas man in December 2008 who claims that the singers' continuous insinuations that he was involved in his 8-year-old stepson's murder, along with two other boys in 1993, has caused him to suffer a loss of income and reputation. The man, Terry Hobbs, was never charged or implicated in the murders.TMZ: Maines Sued for Loud Mouth (December 5, 2008)

At a concert in London in 2003, on the eve of the Iraq War, Maines was quoted as saying that she was "...ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas." The comment was followed by a public backlash in the United States that included album boycotts and death threats. After a brief hiatus, the Dixie Chicks returned with the album Taking the Long Way which won five Grammys.