Patricia Lynn Yearwood was born in Monticello, Georgia.  She attended Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, and studied business administration.  She completed an internship at MTM Records and was ultimately hired permanently.  Encouraged by the people at MTM,

Trisha Yearwood

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The Early Years

Patricia Lynn Yearwood was born in Monticello, Georgia.  She attended Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, and studied business administration.  She completed an internship at MTM Records and was ultimately hired permanently.  Encouraged by the people at MTM, she recorded a few demo tapes and sang back-up for various artists, including Garth Brooks.  Brooks helped her get acquainted with people at his recording studio, and she signed a contract with MCA Nashville Records.

After touring with Brooks as his opening act on his No Fences Tour, she came home and released her own debut album, Trisha Yearwood.  Her lead single, She's In Love with the Boy, went to #1 on the country charts and brought her instant national recognition.  The album hit #2 on the US country charts and #6 on the Canadian charts and certified double platinum.  

Diverse Career

Yearwood's follow-up album, Hearts in Armor, also certified platinum.  Four singles from the album hit the top ten, including Walkaway Joe that peaked at #2.  Hearts in Armor was a different from her first album, in that it was mostly ballads.  Diversifying again, Yearwood released The Song Remembers When in 1993.  Combining folk and pop music, the album peaked at #2 and gave her another platinum album.

Trisha Yearwood released three more studio albums and a Christmas album by then end of the 1990s.  All were critically acclaimed and all were commercially successful.  In 1997, she released a compilation, (Songbook) A Collection of Hits, which certified quadruple platinum.  She was inducted as a member of the Grand Ole Opry by Porter Wagoner in 1999.

Success in the 21^st Century

Yearwood released two albums in 2000 and 2001, each certifying gold.  She took a hiatus then, until 2005, during which she wrote some original music and married Garth Brooks.  In 2005, she released Jasper County, which peaked at #1 on the country charts and certified gold.  In 2005, she participated in the Broadway Goes Country concert, which featured country stars like herself and Carrie Underwood, as well as Broadway stars, such as Idina Menzel from Wicked.

Her most recent album, Heaven, Heartache, and the Power of Love, was released in 2008. Her next album is due out late in 2010.  Over the course of her career, Trisha Yearwood has won two Academy of Country Music awards, two Country Music Association awards, one American Music award, and three Grammy awards.  

Did you know . . .

1. In 2008, Trisha Yearwood published a cookbook co-written with her mother, entitled Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen.  The book is available in traditional form or can be purchased for download online.

2. From 1997 through 2002, Yearwood had a recurring role as Lt. Commander Teresa Coulter in the television series, Jag.  

3. In 1996, while flying from Nevada to New York, Trisha Yearwood saved a man's life when he was trapped in the belly of the plane.

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