{"id":34633,"date":"2025-12-13T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=34633"},"modified":"2025-12-12T06:26:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T11:26:21","slug":"maddie-tae-are-splitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/12\/maddie-tae-are-splitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Maddie &amp; Tae Are Splitting Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After 15 years performing and recording as the country duo Maddie &amp; Tae, Maddie Font and Tae Kerr have announced they are ending their professional partnership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pair are resisting the term \u201cbreakup\u201d as they \u201care embarking on separate journeys,\u201d with Kerr focusing on family life as a stay-at-home mom and Font pursuing a solo music career. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Font said&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re leaving this so open-ended because we might make another record one day. We might go do some tour dates one day. But just in this season. it doesn\u2019t feel aligned for us to do it together.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Both singers emphasize their enduring friendship and openness to future collaborations, with Kerr prioritizing her children and home while Font prepares to release solo music blending country, gospel, and R&amp;B influences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The duo expressed gratitude for their fans as they plan a series of special final shows together while being careful to avoid calling it a farewell tour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The duo\u2019s 2014 debut single, \u201cGirl in a Country Song,\u201d went to No. 1 when they were both only 19-years-old, and industry accolades quickly followed, with Maddie &amp; Tae receiving 13 CMA nominations, including 11 for vocal duo of the year, 11 ACM nominations, including nine for duo of the year, and six CMT Awards nominations. <\/p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSAl4RLj8KZ\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 15 years performing and recording as the country duo Maddie &amp; Tae, Maddie Font and Tae Kerr have announced they are ending their professional partnership. The pair are resisting the term \u201cbreakup\u201d as they \u201care embarking on separate journeys,\u201d with Kerr focusing on family life as a stay-at-home mom and Font pursuing a solo","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":34634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[10294,5584,1116],"class_list":["post-34633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-break-up-2","tag-maddie-and-tae","tag-split"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 13:50:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/12\/maddie-tae-are-splitting\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34633"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34643,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34633\/revisions\/34643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}