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Mary Gauthier was born on 11 March, 1962 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, is an American singer-songwriter. Discover Mary Gauthier'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 62 years old?

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Occupation Songwriter, musician, writing teacher, restaurateur
Age 62 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 11 March, 1962
Birthday 11 March
Birthplace New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Nationality United States

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1962

Mary Veronica Gauthier (born March 11, 1962) is a Grammy-nominated American folk singer-songwriter and author, whose songs have been covered by performers including Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton, Kathy Mattea, Boy George, Jimmy Buffett, Bettye LaVette, Candi Staton, and Amy Helm.

Mary's songs often deal with marginalization, informed by her experience of adoption, addiction and recovery, and growing up gay in the deep south.

Her work demonstrates an "ability to transform her own trauma into a purposeful and communal narrative", such as the lyric "we could all use, a little mercy, now", from her song Mercy Now.

Gauthier was born in 1962 in New Orleans, Louisiana, to a mother who gave her to St Vincent's Women and Infants Asylum, where she spent the first year of her life.

In adulthood, Mary spoke to her biological mother once by phone, but there was no further contact between them.

She was adopted by an Italian Catholic couple from Thibodaux, Louisiana.

Her father was an alcoholic.

Struggling with a variety of issues, Gauthier left home young and abused drugs and alcohol, as did her brother, who was three years younger and also adopted.

He was later jailed for armed robbery.

Mary says she had drunk herself unconscious on sloe gin by the time she was twelve.

When she was fifteen she ran away from home, recalling that "I was a gay kid, and back then, that just didn’t fly. Back then, gay kids were beat up, abused, some ended up taking their own lives. It was horrible, and I just wanted to get away.” Mary spent the next several years in drug rehabilitation, halfway houses, living with friends, and spent her eighteenth birthday in a jail cell. These experiences provided fodder for her songwriting later on.

Spurred on by friends, she enrolled at Louisiana State University as a philosophy major, dropping out during her senior year.

After attending the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, and working in an upmarket restaurant, she got financial backing to open a Cajun restaurant in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, calling it Dixie Kitchen.

1990

On opening night, 12 July 1990, she was arrested for drunk driving and has been sober ever since.

"I eventually got sober when I was twenty seven years old... I started writing songs in earnest at around thirty two years of age", she says.

After achieving sobriety from "[mainly] alcohol, cocaine and heroin", Mary continued to manage, and cook at, the restaurant but was increasingly driven to dedicate herself to songwriting.

Having recorded her debut, Dixie Kitchen, Gauthier sold her share in the restaurant to finance her second album.

1998

Drag Queens in Limousines was released in 1998, winning several accolades, and led to appearances at eleven major folk festivals, including Newport.

2000

In 2000, Drag Queens in Limousines won Best Folk/Singer-Songwriter Song at the first Independent Music Awards.

Gauthier was nominated for Best New Artist at the Boston Music Awards, and also for three Gay and Lesbian American Music Awards (GLAMAs), winning best country artist.

2001

After moving to Nashville in 2001, she secured a publishing deal with Harlan Howard Songs, followed by her third album, Filth and Fire, in 2002.

Two years later, she landed a record deal with Lost Highway, a division of Universal Music, and released the first of two albums with them.

Mercy Now won widespread acclaim and propelled Mary into the spotlight, making the Top Ten Albums list in many publications.

2002

In 2002, Filth and Fire was named Best Indy CD of the Year by Jon Pareles of The New York Times.

2003

Mercy Now made the 2003 Top Ten Albums list in The New York Times, The LA Times, The Daily News, and Billboard Magazine, and was voted the No. 6 Record of the Decade by No Depression magazine.

2005

Gauthier was named New/Emerging Artist of the Year by the Americana Music Association in 2005.

2007

A second album for Lost Highway, Between Daylight and Dark, followed in 2007.

2010

Gauthier's next studio record, The Foundling (2010), was released by Razor & Tie Records.

The Foundling was named the No. 3 Record of the Year by The LA Times music writer Randy Lewis, in 2010.

2013

She then made the first of several albums for In The Black Records, LIVE at Blue Rock (2013), her first live album which was recorded at a ranch outside of Austin, Texas.

2014

Mary's eighth studio album, Trouble and Love (2014), demonstrated her now familiar "brutal honesty balanced by rough-hewn tenderness" to great effect.

The following year, Gauthier featured on Eight 30 Records' Cold and Bitter Tears: The Songs of Ted Hawkins, contributing her take on the late Los Angeles busker's signature song, Sorry You're Sick.

2015

In 2015, Gauthier was nominated for the Outstanding Music Artist of the Year at the 26th Annual GLAAD Media Awards.

2018

Her Grammy nominated 2018 album Rifles & Rosary Beads, co-written with military veterans and their families, has been hailed as a landmark achievement.

She has won awards from the Americana Music Association, International Folk Music Awards, the Independent Music Awards, the GLAMA Awards, and the UK Americana Association.

Gauthier's next record, Rifles & Rosary Beads (2018), was co-written with U.S. veterans and their families, arising out of Mary's involvement with the Songwriting With Soldiers program.

Mary notes that "[every] day, on average, twenty-two veterans commit suicide", adding that "[underneath] so much of the problems in the world is trauma, it's the central issue humanity is dealing with. We've found something powerful here, that brings hope to people who are hurting".

The album was released to widespread acclaim, and has been described as "music that's just plain important" (The LA Times), and as being "not only the strongest album of her career but, in its own way, a landmark album."

It has won several awards, and secured Mary her first Grammy nomination.

Although rarely in the pop/mainstream spotlight, throughout her career Gauthier has won widespread acclaim and numerous awards for her songs.