Trisha Yearwood

Revealed in the early 1990s, Trisha Yearwood went on to become one of the most successful country singers of the decade, with several Billboard chart-toppers, including five number ones. Born in the small Georgia town of Monticello on September 19, 1964, Patricia Lynn "Trisha" Yearwood grew up on a farm, singing in choirs and at school. After studying music marketing in Nashville, she worked for MTM Records before being hired as a backing vocalist on the first two albums by Garth Brooks, who became her mentor and then her husband. Signed by the MCA label, she recorded her first homonymous album, which was supported by the country number one "She's in Love with the Boy". Further success followed with the albums Hearts in Armor (1992), featuring the duet "Walkaway Joe" with Don Henley, and The Song Remembers When (1993) with its number-two title track. After the Christmas album The Sweetest Gift (1994), the singer, married to Robert Reynolds (The Mavericks), records Thinkin' About You (1995), including two number ones: the title track and "XXX's and OOO's (An American Girl)". The next, Everybody Knows (1996), brought the hit "Believe Me Baby (I Lied)". Her greatest hits are then collected in the compilation Songbook: A Collection of Hits (1997, #1 country), with the previously unreleased "In Another's Eyes" with Garth Brooks and "Perfect Love". Honored with a Grammy Award for "How Do I Live", Trisha Yearwood's breakthrough came before the release of Where Your Road Leads (1998) and her homonymous duet with Garth Brooks. Her divorce from Robert Reynolds rubbed off on the album Real Live Woman (2000), before the return of success with Inside Out (2001, #1 country). After Jasper County (2005) and Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love (2007), the singer retired from music to devote herself to writing recipes, then to her show Trisha's Southern Kitchen on the Food Network. Returning to singing in 2014, with the release of Prizefighter: Hit After Hit, a compilation featuring six new songs, the singer recorded an entire Christmas album with Garth Brooks, who proposed to her in concert in 2005, Christmas Together. In 2018, she changes her style for the Frank Sinatra tribute : Let's Be Frank, followed by Every Girl (2019), which reached No. 5 on the country charts. After inaugurating her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, she unveils the songs "Bringing the Angels" and "Girls Night In", the first country-rock-tinged singles from the album The Mirror (2025), featuring duets with Jim Lauderdale, Charles Kelley and Hailey Whitters. The same year sees the release of her second Christmas album and first solo effort, Christmastime.