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Read “Talking to the Sky”, by AIMEE MAYO online on Bookmate – An unforgettable, harrowing yet hilarious story about growing up in the midst of chaos by award-winning songwriter Aimee Mayo.Aimee Mayo. Talking To The Sky. TALKING TO THE SKY is Mayo’s debut memoir and a project 15 years in the making. Mayo grew up in deep Alabama, rocked by the blow of a drunk man's fist before she even made it out of the womb. Her colorful and charismatic father went from a gambling janitor to a multi-millionaire, but died homeless.

Aimee Mayo Download mac apps without apple id. is a Grammy-nominated songwriter and author. Her songs have spent twenty-six weeks in the #1 spot on the Billboard charts, and albums featuring her songs have sold over 155 million units worldwide. She is primarily known for writing hits for artists such as Lonestar, Martina McBride, Sara Evans, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton, Adam Lambert, Kenny Chesney, Boyz II Men, Brad Paisley, Backstreet Boys, Billy Currington, Kellie Pickler and more. Mayo is one of the few females to receive both BMI's Country Song of the Year and Songwriter of the Year awards, putting her in the rare company of Dolly Parton and Taylor Swift. Mayo was also a judge on the CMT series, Can You Duet. Talking to the Sky is Mayo's first book, almost 15 years in the making.

Biography[edit]

Aimee Mayo grew up in Gadsden, Alabama. According to her mother, Aimee always had a notebook with her and was constantly writing poetry. Her mother encouraged her to 'shoot for the top' and she was signed as a songwriter with BMG while she was still a teenager. It was there that she met her husband, Chris Lindsey, a fellow songwriter. She and Chris have three children and live in Nashville, Tennessee.

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As a teen, Aimee was surrounded by music. Her father Danny Mayo wrote hits for numerous country artists. Her brother Cory Mayo wrote You'll Be There, a hit for George Strait in 2005. As of 2008, Mayo’s songs have spent twenty-five weeks in the #1 spot on the Billboard charts, and albums featuring her songs have sold over 135 million units worldwide.

Mayo was named BMI Songwriter of the Year in 2000. 'Amazed,' recorded by Lonestar that same year, is her most popular song to date. In 2004 it garnered a 5 Millionaire award from BMI, vaulting it into the top 125 songs in the BMI catalog out of 6.5 million works. “Amazed” also won ACM (Academy of Country Music) Song of the Year, BMI Song of the Year, NSAI Song of the Year and was nominated for a Grammy. “Amazed” crossed over to the pop charts and spent two weeks at the top of the Hot 100, making it the first country song to accomplish such a feat since Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers with their 1983 song “Islands in the Stream.” ^[1]

Mayo's song “This One’s for the Girls,” recorded by Martina McBride, stayed at #1 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart for eleven weeks in addition to reaching number three on the country chart.^[2] The song also went on to be a theme song for the morning show “The View.” Mayo has received over a dozen BMI Country awards along with BMI Pop Awards for “Amazed” and “This One’s For the Girls.”

Mayo co-wrote the song 'Wheel of the World' on Carrie Underwood’s second album with husband Chris Lindsey and close friend and collaborator Hillary Lindsey. The title “Carnival Ride” was chosen by Underwood from the lyrics of “Wheel of the World.”^[3]

Mayo was a judge on the CMT television series, 'Can You Duet'.

Personal life[edit]

Mayo and her husband and co-writer, Chris Lindsey have three children. Levi, Oscar, and Lola.^{[citation needed]}

Discography[edit]

• Tim McGraw: “My Best Friend”, “Let’s Make Love”, “Drugs or Jesus”, 'Let It Go', “Things Change”, “Seventeen”, 'Smilin', 'Let Me Love You', 'Good Girls', 'Doggone'
• Faith Hill: “Red Umbrella”, “Let’s Make Love”, “You’re Still Here”, “There Will Come a Day”, 'Beautiful', 'Me'
• Kenny Chesney: “Who You'd Be Today”, 'California', 'Bar at the End of the World'
• Carrie Underwood: “Wheel of The World”, 'Oh Love'
• Martina McBride: “This One's for the Girls”, “How I Feel'
• Lonestar: “Amazed”, 'I Am A Man'
• Brad Paisley: 'Oh Love'
• Blake Shelton: 'Every Time I Hear That Song'
• Sara Evans: 'Backseat of a Greyhound Bus', 'Feels Just Like a Love Song', 'Three Chords and the Truth', 'Pray For You', 'Love You With All My Heart', 'The Secrets That We Keep', 'You Don't'
• Kellie Pickler: 'I Wonder', 'Red High Heels', 'Don't You Know You're Beautiful', 'Didn't You Know How Much I Loved You', 'Going Out in Style', 'One Last Time', 'Somebody to Love Me', 'My Angel', 'Small Town Girl', 'Happy', 'One Of The Guys', 'I Forgive You'
• Backstreet Boys: 'Helpless When She Smiles'
• Jessica Simpson: 'When I Loved You Like That'
• Mark Wills: 'Places I’ve Never Been', 'Days of Thunder', 'I Just Close My Eyes', 'Panama City', 'When Did I Lose You'
• Heidi Newfield: “Cry Cry (Til the Sun Shines)'
• Billy Currington: 'Tangled Up'
• Caitlin & Will: 'Address in the Stars', 'Dark Horse'
• Deana Carter: 'Liar', 'Make Up Your Mind'
• Ashley Gearing: “Out the Window”
• Jessica Andrews: 'I Wish For You', 'Karma', 'Never Be Forgotten', 'Now'
• Joe Diffie: 'It’s Always Somethin'
• Carolyn Dawn Johnson: 'Simple Life'
• Jimmy Wayne: “You Are”, 'Are You Ever Gonna Love Me', 'Trespassin' '
• Mila Mason: “Closer to Heaven”
• Rachel Proctor: “Where I Belong”
• Adam Lambert: 'Sleepwalker'
• Chris Cagle': 'Are You Ever Gonna Love Me'
• Patrizio Buanne: 'Let's Make Love'
• Trace Adkins: 'Can I Want Your Love', 'Words Get in the Way'
• Bonnie Tyler: 'Amazed'
• Julie Roberts: 'Men & Mascara'
• Jo Dee Messina: 'Closer'
• Joe Nichols: 'Let's Get Drunk and Fight'
• Rhett Akins: 'More Than Everything'
• Aaron Lines: 'Let's Get Drunk and Fight'
• William Topley: 'Nothing Like You', 'Closer To You', 'Nothing Else Matters'
• Chely Wright: 'Unknown'
• The Kinleys- '(Ooh, Aah) Crazy Kind of Love Thing'
• Mindy McCready: 'Over and Over', 'Take Me Apart', 'Thunder and Roses'
• Mark Chesnutt: 'Strangers', 'I'll Get You Back'
• Crystal Shawanda: 'I Need A Man'
• Pam Tillis: 'Thunder and Roses'
• Carter's Chord: 'Young Love'
• Lorrie Morgan: 'Rocks'
• Danielle Bradbery: 'Wild Boy'
• Erika Jo: 'Who You Are'
• Easton Corbin: 'Someday When I'm Old'
• Blue Country: 'Firecrackers and Ferriswheels'
• David Nail: 'Strangers On A Train'
• Jim Lauderdale: 'Understanding Everything'
• VanVelzen: 'I'm Here'
• Katharine McPhee: 'Say Goodbye'
• Caitlyn Smith: 'House of Cards'
• Boyz II Men: 'Amazed'
• Casey James: 'Miss Your Fire'
• Westside Cast: 'Champagne High (feat. Alexandra Kay, Taz Zavala, Pia Toscano)

External links[edit]

• [AimeeMayo.com/discography Official website]

References[edit]

1. ^'SongwriterUniverse Magazine'. Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-22.
2. ^Rogers, L. 'Glencoe's Aimee and Cory Mayo follow their father's success in Nashville', The Gadsden Times, October 12, 2007.
3. ^'Carrie's Official Bio'. Archived from the original on 23 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-10-22.

Nashville songwriter Aimee Mayo is enjoying an amazing career as co-writer of the record-breaking Lonestar hit, “Amazed.” Written with husband Chris Lindsey and longtime songwriting partner Marv Green, “Amazed” spent eight weeks at the top of Billboard’s country singles chart, the longest period a song has spent at number one in 30 years. Then, for good measure, the song crossed over to top the pop charts, making it the first country song to accomplish such a feat since Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers crossed over with their 1983 song, “Islands in the Stream.”

The list of awards “Amazed” has received is truly impressive. It garnered the Academy of Country Music’s (ACM) “Song Of The Year” award for 2000, and spent two years on BMI’s list of the 50 most performed songs for 2000 and 2001. In addition, BMI awarded its writers the 32nd Robert J. Burton Award for being the most performed country song of the year. It received a Grammy nomination and was nominated for “Best Song” by the Country Music Association (CMA). Mayo and Green were jointly named BMI’s “Writer Of The Year” for 2001.

In a recent interview, Mayo recalled the events which influenced the creation of this immensely popular love song. “Chris and I were falling in love, though we were still mostly friends. We got together with Marv to write the song, and our feelings for each other just started coming out as we were writing. About six months later Jim Catino at Dreamworks (Lindsey’s label) played the song for Lonestar producer Dann Huff and he loved it.” Lonestar recorded the song on their Lonely Grill album along with one of Lindsey’s songs, “Smile,” which also became a number one single.

“Amazed” was the second single released from the album. “I guess it was out for a couple months, then it just started flying up the charts,” said Mayo. “We loved the song, but we had no idea it would get such a great response. Everyone was calling and wanting them to play it on the radio. I’d get in my car and turn on the radio and they’d be saying ‘we’re gonna play it, quit calling.’ I loved it.”

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Mayo shared an important milestone with her husband when the song reached number one in the summer of 1999. “It was my first number one song and my husband’s first number one. It stayed at number one for eight weeks, almost all summer. We were so excited. That was a great summer for us. We were so excited when it crossed over to the pop charts. We loved hearing it on the rock stations.”

Mayo’s relationship with husband & songwriter Chris Lindsey has provided inspiration for some of Mayo’s other hit songs. “My Best Friend,” co-written with Bill Luther and recorded by Tim McGraw on his album A Place in the Sun, also hit number one on the country charts. “Bill was my first, steady writing partner,” said Mayo, “and we’ve been really close friends for about eight years. We were trying to write a great love song for Valentine’s Day. I was reading a copy of Country Weekly magazine that was a couples issue, and I saw that a lot of people were saying that their husband or wife was their best friend. I thought that would be a great idea for a song, [then] Bill and I sat down and wrote it a couple of hours.”

Mayo’s songwriting roots run deep. Her father, Danny Mayo, who wrote such hits as “Keeper of the Stars” (with Dickey Lee & Karen Staley) and “Feed Jake,” was one of Nashville’s top writers. Aimee credits her father’s influence for her stellar success. “I was always surrounded by music growing up. He was always writing songs and my little brother, and I would critique them all and tell him which ones we thought were hits. We were right a good bit of the time. I also stayed grounded most of the time and I spent all my time in my room writing poems, so I guess I can thank my stepdad for keeping me grounded.”

Aimee came to Nashville in 1990 and supported her songwriting habit by waiting tables at Brown’s Café for three years before signing a publishing deal with Karen Conrad’s AMR/New Haven Music (acquired by BMG Music in 1997). “I played a lot of songs for a lot of different people,” said Mayo. “I just kept knocking on doors and my persistence finally paid off. I think a lot of people didn’t take me seriously because I was so young.”

Success as a songwriter doesn’t necessarily happen overnight, Mayo said. “I lived in a lot of basements where we all had to share a laundry room. It was probably seven years before I could afford a house of my own with a real bathtub.”

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Mayo offered advice for new writers trying to break into the business. “If you’re writing country songs, you pretty much need to move to Nashville and knock on every door you can. Go to workshops and be there during writer’s nights. Somebody’s gonna hear you. I know of a lot of writers who did this and had deals before they knew it. Also, BMI and ASCAP are very helpful as far as working with new writers.”

There is no real formula for writing hit songs, Mayo said. “We just write what we love, not what we think people want to hear,” she said. “If it doesn’t inspire us, chances are it won’t inspire others. But you just can’t tell what people will like. Sometimes it’s a matter of what artists are looking for at the time. Faith (Hill) is getting ready to record a new album soon and we’re praying she includes one of our songs on her next record.”

Amidst all the excitement of her career, Mayo has found time to start a family. Texas instruments ti 84 download for mac. She and Lindsey are the proud parents of one-and-a-half-year-old Levi, and are expecting their second son in about six weeks. Sadly, Mayo lost her father on his birthday in October of 1999. “We brought Levi home from the hospital exactly nine months to the day of my dad’s death,” she remembered.

The popularity of Mayo songs continues. “We hear a lot of stories about how couples are using “Amazed” as their wedding song,” she said. “One story that really touched me was when I learned that a couple used my dad’s song, ‘Keeper of the Stars’ in their wedding, then played ‘Amazed’ for their first dance. That was really special to me.”

5 speed manual transmission. To date, Mayo has had approximately 60 of her songs cut by both new and established artists. Despite their growing family, she and Lindsey continue to write together every day and look forward to a bright future.

Update: Aimee Mayo’s book & memoir, Talking To The Sky, has just been released. Here’s the link to read about the book and purchase it on Amazon.

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