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Matraca Berg (Matraca Maria Berg) was born on 3 February, 1964 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, is an American singer-songwriter. Discover Matraca Berg's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

Popular As Matraca Maria Berg
Occupation singer-songwriter
Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 3 February 1964
Birthday 3 February
Birthplace Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Nationality United States

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Her husband is Jeff Hanna (m. 1993)

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Matraca Berg Net Worth

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1960

Berg's mother, Icie Calloway, moved from Harlan County, Kentucky, to Nashville in the 1960s to seek her fortune as a singer and songwriter shortly before Matraca was born.

Matraca's Aunt Sudie Calloway was a successful Music Row backing singer.

Aunts Coleida Calloway and Clara Howard were backing vocalists on Kentucky's Renfro Valley Barn Dance.

Uncle Jim Baker was a steel guitar player who also spent some time running Mel Tillis's song publishing companies.

When Matraca was 2 years old, her mother married nuclear physicist Ron Berg, who legally adopted Matraca.

Berg's mother found only limited success in the music industry and eventually became a nurse.

Berg herself then took up songwriting with her mother's encouragement.

When Berg played her songs for songwriter Bobby Braddock, he volunteered to co-write with her.

1964

Matraca Maria Berg Hanna (born February 3, 1964, 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. 36.

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.

Matraca Maria Berg was born February 3, 1964, in Nashville, Tennessee.

1980

The couple met while touring with Clint Black in the late 1980s.

1983

She found her earliest success in their collaboration, "Faking Love", which was sung by Karen Brooks and T. G. Sheppard, topping the Billboard Hot Country Singles (now Hot Country Songs) charts on February 19, 1983.

1985

After her mother's death in 1985, Berg continued to have great success writing songs for other performers.

Reba McEntire had a No. 1 song with her "The Last One to Know", and Randy Travis, Tanya Tucker, Ray Price, Marie Osmond, Sweethearts of the Rodeo, Michelle Wright and others recorded her songs.

1990

Berg signed to a recording contract with RCA Records Nashville in 1990, releasing her debut album Lying to the Moon that year.

Its first two singles, "Baby, Walk On" and "The Things You Left Undone," both charted in the country top 40 at No. 36, followed by the No. 43 "I Got It Bad" and No. 55 "I Must Have Been Crazy."

1991

Matraca was nominated for Top New Female Vocalist by the Academy of Country Music in 1991, losing to Shelby Lynne.

What was to be her follow-up album, Bittersweet Surrender, was recorded in 1991.

It featured the single "It's Easy to Tell," which charted in November 1991.

The album was rejected by the label, which wanted a more mainstream-sounding recording instead.

One of the songs from this canceled album, "Wrong Side of Memphis," later became a Top Ten hit for Trisha Yearwood.

1993

They were married December 5, 1993.

1994

She continued to write for others, and in 1994, released a pop album The Speed of Grace.

1995

Berg's 1995 song, "You Can Feel Bad", co-written with Tim Krekel and recorded by Patty Loveless, was a Number 1 country single, spending twenty weeks on the charts.

Berg co-wrote "Strawberry Wine" along with Gary Harrison, which Deana Carter released as a single.

1997

Berg won the "Song of the Year" at the 1997 CMA (Country Music Association) Awards.

1999

In 1999, RCA released a compilation album entitled Lying to the Moon & Other Stories which also included tracks from her 1997 Rising Tide release.

2004

In 2004 and 2005, Berg was nominated for induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, making her one of the youngest nominees in history.

2006

The same year, she released the album Sunday Morning to Saturday Night via Rising Tide Records; it produced the singles "That Train Don't Run" and "Back in the Saddle," the former of which was released by Pinmonkey in 2006.

2008

In 2008 she was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and in 2018 she received the Poet's Award from the Academy of Country Music Awards.

She was eventually inducted in 2008.

She continues to be a prolific and respected country songwriter.

She currently lives in Nashville with her husband, Jeff Hanna, a founding member of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.