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Jo Dee Marie Messina (born August 25, 1970 in Framingham, Massachusetts), known professionally as Jo Dee Messina, is an American country music artist. In her career charted six Number One singles on the Billboard country music charts. She has been honored by the Country Music Association, the Academy of Country Music and nominated for a Grammy Award. She was the first female country artist to score three multiple-week Number One songs from the same album. To date, she has two Platinum and three Gold-certified albums by the RIAA. Messina debuted in 1996 with the single "Heads Carolina, Tails California". Her...

Jim Messina made major contributions to popular music in the 1960s and 1970s, and continues to record, perform and tour into the 21st Century, recently reuniting with longtime collaborator Kenny Loggins, and releasing his own latin flavored new record Mojito Moon. Prior to working with Neil Young and becoming a key contributor to the late 60's sound of Buffalo Springfield, Messina had a popular mid-60's Southern California surf-rock combo called Jim Messina & his Jesters who released an album on Audio Fidelity label. Later on, he was co-founder along with ex-Buffalo Springfield guitarist Richie Furay of the country-rock band Poco....

Mateo Messina (Matt Messina) is a television, film and symphony composer. His work includes many shorts as well as "Juno" (2007). Mateo Messina’s style of songwriting and composition has earned him accolades. He has received numerous film score awards, including the Festival Tous Courts in France for The Freak, One Reel Film Festival for Terra, and ASCAP Awards. Messina’s recent features include Stardust Pictures film "L!fe Happens," which premiered at the LA Film Festival June 14, 2011. He also reunites with "Juno" director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody on "Young Adult," and the Weinstein Company’s "Butter," starring Olivia Wilde,...

Loggins & Messina are an American rock music duo consisting of Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina. They are noted for popularizing the subgenre of Yacht rock (the form of "soft rock" that was the subject of the video series with that title), which soon became prominent in the 1970s. In late 1970 Jim Messina, formerly of Poco and Buffalo Springfield, was working as an independent contract record producer for Columbia Records. It was then that he met a little-known studio artist who had written a few songs of his own, Kenny Loggins. Loggins was working as contract songwriter for The...