Yearwood has been married three times. She married her first husband, musician Chris Latham, in 1987; they divorced in 1991. On May 21, 1994 she married Robert "Bobby" Reynolds, a bass player for the country music group The Mavericks; they divorced in 1999. Yearwood and her current husband Garth Brooks had been close friends since before they both became nationally known in the 1990s; in 2000, after Brooks filed for divorce from estranged wife Sandy Mahl, they began dating and Yearwood took a four-year hiatus from music. On May 25, 2005, Brooks proposed to Yearwood in front of 7,000 fans in Bakersfield, California and she accepted without hesitation. On December 10, 2005, they were married in a private ceremony at the couple's home in Owasso, Oklahoma.
Talent, dreams and determination are an intoxicating little cocktail. It's a recipe that has served to propel a lithesome Georgia blonde from local honky tonks to the world's most prestigious stages. For Trisha Yearwood, there was never any other path but music.
Sitting in a Nashville studio listening to mixes of her Big Machine Records debut, "Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love," it is obvious Yearwood is living the dream and loving every minute of it. With three Grammys, three Country Music Association honors, and 19 top ten singles to her credit, including such career-defining hits as "She's in Love With the Boy," "Perfect Love," and "How Do I Live," it might be tempting to rest on her considerable laurels, but that's not in Yearwood's nature.
After all, a career in music has been Yearwood's goal since she was five-years-old. "Most little kids ask Santa Claus for a doll or a bike for Christmas. I was asking for a tape recorder because I wanted to hear my voice on tape. I have tapes of me singing when I was five or six. When I die I'm sure somebody will find them, but not until then," she says with a laugh.
Yearwood remembers getting a copy of Carole King's classic "Tapestry" album as a Christmas gift and recalls that vividly as a defining moment. Somewhere she began summoning the courage to pursue her dream. "When you are that age, especially in a small town where nobody does this for a living, people sort of say, 'Oh that's cute,'" the Monticello, Georgia native says.
In her small community, declaring she wanted to be a country singer was tantamount to wanting to become the president of the United States. It seemed a lofty dream with little chance of reality, but Yearwood remained undaunted. "Some people at five or six-yeas-old already know what they want to be, and I did. That was the beginning and the desire to do it just got stronger and stronger."
Like most hopeful young artists, Yearwood began singing around her hometown, and though she became a big fish in that small pond, deep inside she wondered if she really had the goods to succeed. She found her validation in a little bar in Macon, Georgia. "It was a talent night and I was 16 and not old enough to go into a bar," she recalls, "but if you won, you got $50 and you got to come back on Friday night and sing with the house band. I talked to my parents and I said, 'You guys go with me and we'll do it.' I won! I got to go in and sing that Friday night with the band and that $50 check is still hanging on my bulletin board in Georgia."
Trisha Yearwood - She's In Love With The Boy
Trisha Yearwood - I Would've Loved You Anyway
Trisha Yearwood - This Is Me You're Talking To
Trisha Yearwood - I Need You
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