Robin Lynn Macy

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Robin Lynn Macy (born c. 1956) is an American musician, who is best known as a founding member of the female country group the Dixie Chicks.

A mathematics schoolteacher, Macy was also a figure in the Dallas bluegrass music scene of the 1980s, and was in a band called Danger in the Air which had two independent albums. [1] At the same time she became a founding member of the Dixie Chicks in 1989, when she was already 33 years old. With the Chicks she was the group's guitarist, co-lead singer, and occasional songwriter. Macy left the Dixie Chicks in late 1992, preferring a "purer" bluegrass approach. Her age may have also been an issue. (She was not replaced; the foursome became a trio. It would be still several more years until the Dixie Chicks achieved their big commercial break-through, when Natalie Maines replaced Laura Lynch as lead singer.)

Macy then joined Sara Hickman and Patty Lege to form the group Domestic Science Club, which issued two albums before disbanding. While still in Dallas, Macy played with an informal group named Round Robin, but she eventually moved to southern Kansas. There, she founded a group called Big Twang, which cut one CD before its band members went their separate ways. Macy remains active in the music scene, and has also returned to teaching mathematics. [2]