Troyal Garth Brooks

Brooks married, Sandy Mahl, on May 24, 1986. They had three daughters, Taylor Mayne Pearl, August Anna and Allie Colleen, before they got divorced.

On December 10, 2005, he got married to the singer, Trisha Yearwood. The couple mostly resides in Owasso, Oklahoma, a Tulsa suburban.

Garth Brook was born as the youngest child, born to Troyal Raymond Brooks, a draftsman and Colleen Carroll, a country musician, from the 1950s.

Since, his family, especially his mother was a music enthusiast; he learned to play guitar and banjo at an early age. Though he was more interested in sports, he used to sing at family functions.

He was good at football, baseball and athletics in high school and even earned a scholarship in track to Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, from where he graduated in 1984.

While at the University, he started singing at several clubs and bars around Oklahoma. His singing talent was discovered by entertainment counsel, Rod Phelps in 1985, who had come all the way from Dallas to listen to this young talent.

Impressed by his singing, Phelps offered Brooks to produce his first demo, for which he had to travel to Nashville for recording. However, he returned the same day to Oklahoma, but later, on the persuasion of Phelps, he went back to Nashville in 1987.

In 1989, Brooks released his self-titled debut album, which went on to become a huge success. The album soon hit the US country album chart instantly and peaked at no. 13 on the Billboard 200. Particularly, the single ‘Much Too Young’ garnered great appreciation.

His second album ‘No Fences’ released in 1990, was also a major hit and occupied no. 1 spot on the Billboard country music chart for several weeks.

He released his third studio album ‘Ropin' the Wind’ on September 2, 1991, to rave reviews. The singles ‘Shameless’, ‘What She's Doing Now’, and ‘The River’ created a rage among the audiences and were constantly played at the country clubs.

On September 22, 1992, he released his fourth album ‘The Chase’ whose first single was the gospel-country-rock hybrid ‘We Shall Be Free’. The song was co-written by him during the race riots in Los Angeles.

The second song of the album, ‘Somewhere Other Than the Night’ was even more successful than the first and so was the third song ‘Learning to Live Again’, released in 1993. However, the last single ‘That Summer’, became his most successful single from the album.

His second studio album, ‘No Fences’ reached no. 1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart and no. 3 on Billboard 200. It was with this album that he became an international star and was his first album to be released in Europe.

‘Ropin' the Wind’, his third album peaked at no. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and stayed in the top position for 18 weeks. The album was also certified 14xPlatinum and has sold 17 million copies worldwide.

His tenth album ‘Double Live’ was certified 21xPlatinum and was the best-selling live album in the U.S. ever since English singer, Eric Clapton's released his ‘Unplugged’ in 1992. The album is known to have sold 6,017,000 copies!