Aimee Mayo

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Name = Aimee Mayo


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Born = birth date and age|1971|09|28
Origin = Gadsden, Alabama, United States
Genre = Country
Occupation = Songwriter
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Publishing Company = Little Blue Typewriter Music
URL = [http://www.myspace.com/littlebluetypewriter MySpace Page]

Aimee Mayo (born September 28, 1971) is an American songwriter, primarily known for writing country hits for artists such as Lonestar, Martina McBride, Sara Evans, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, and Kellie Pickler. Mayo owns her own publishing company, Little Blue Typewriter Music.

Biography

Aimee Mayo grew up in Gadsden, Alabama. As a teen, Aimee was surrounded by music. Her father Danny Mayo wrote hits for numerous country artists.

Mayo was named BMI Songwriter of the Year in 2000. "Amazed," recorded by Lonestar that same year, is her most popular song to date. 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.” cite web | last = | first = | coauthors = | title = SongwriterUniverse Magazine | work= | pages = | language = English | publisher = | date = | url =http://www.songwriteruniverse.com/mayo.htm | accessdate = 2007-10-22]

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. [Rogers, L. "Glencoe's Aimee and Cory Mayo follow their father's success in Nashville", The Gadsden Times, October 12, 2007.] 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 title track to 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.”cite web | last = | first = | coauthors = | title = Carrie's Official Bio | work= | pages = | language = English | publisher = | date = | url =http://www.carrieunderwoodofficial.com/biography | accessdate = 2007-10-22]

As of 2007, Mayo’s songs have spent twenty-five weeks in the #1 spot on the Billboard charts, and albums featuring her songs have sold over 90 million units world-wide.

Mayo is a judge on the CMT television series, "Can You Duet".

Personal

Aimee resides in Nashville with her husband and co-writer Chris Lindsey. They have three children.

ingles written by Mayo

*Tim McGraw: “My Best Friend”, “Let’s Make Love”, “Drugs or Jesus”, “Things Change”, “Seventeen” "Let it Go"
*Faith Hill: “Red Umbrella”, “Let’s Make Love” , “You’re Still Here”, “There Will Come A Day”
*Kenny Chesney: “Who You'd Be Today”
*Martina McBride: “This One's for the Girls” , “How I Feel”
*Lonestar: “Amazed”
*Sara Evans: “Backseat of a Greyhound Bus”, “Three Chords and the Truth”, "Love You With All My Heart"
*Kellie Pickler: “I Wonder”, “Red High Heels”, "Don't You Know You're Beautiful"
*Backstreet Boys: “Helpless When She Smiles”
*Mark Wills: “Places I’ve Never Been”, “Days of Thunder”
*Billy Currington: “Tangled Up”
*Ashley Gearing: “Out the Window”
*Jessica Andrews: “Karma”
*Joe Diffie: “It’s Always Somethin'”
*Carolyn Dawn Johnson: “Simple Life”
*Jimmy Wayne: “You Are”
*Mila Mason: “Closer to Heaven”
*Rachel Proctor: “Where I Belong”

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