My name is Maggie Clement. I grew up in Milford, Connecticut – a 4 block stroll from Long Island Sound. There, in my parent’s small house, the radio was always on. It was mostly New York or New Haven news, but on Sunday my dad would insist on Live From The Met broadcasts, and classics by Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. I didn’t particularly like it. It wasn’t the music that I cared about. My brother brought The Beatles, Crosby Stills and Nash, The Who, James Taylor and Marvin Gaye records into the house. I brought Diana Ross, Joni Mitchell, Janis, Tina Turner, Carole King and Aretha Franklin to play on my small tinny stereo. Joni inspired me to sing and play guitar. Ms Ross made me want to sing “Stop In The Name Of Love!” into my hairbrush. Laura Nyro is a major influence to this day, but I also wanted to be Mary Travers - have that hair and do those great harmonies. I started playing solo gigs my senior year in high school, and continued the “coffee house” tradition through 4 years of college.

The solo life is lonely, and soon my rock and roll jones got the best of me. I became “the girl singer in the band” - wedding bands, show band “bits” dressed as Blondie or Ronstadt, and tried out my fledgling R&B lungs on Tina Turner, Janis and Donna Summer. When I finally felt that I could belt out a Benetar or Ronstadt about as well as anybody I knew – I decided to go to Nashville. Probably NOT the best place for someone who knew nothing about country music, but the very first agent I met (Crescent Moon Talent), told me, “have I got a band for YOU”. It was rock and roll again. My Benetar practice came in handy for the audition, and between gigs with my new rock band, I worked at ASCAP and RCA records as a secretary, was a finalist in the Hall of Fame female vocalist contest, and appeared twice on TNN’s “You Can Be A Star”. After 5 years in the Music City, I married and moved to Atlanta, where I had my own band, worked with duo partners including my husband, R&B groups, and more rock bands. I received an Atlanta Songwriter’s Award for two of my original songs – Living in The Twilight Zone (written about Nashville) and Nice Girl.