Book Trisha Yearwood

After all, a career in music has been Yearwood’s goal since she was five-years-old. 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.’

She started singing demos, and earned a reputation for her solid work ethic, engaging personality and phenomenal voice. ‘My first showcase we did was the night that Tony Brown said, ‘Let’s make a record,” she remembers. ‘I’d been in Nashville for five years at that point, but when it happened, it happened fast.’She’s in Love with the Boy’ topped the Billboard country singles chart in August 1991. Her self-titled debut album has been certified double platinum and of the 10 albums that followed, all have been certified gold and six have been certified platinum. ‘Songbook: A Collection of Hits’ has achieved quadruple platinum status. Yearwood has won three Grammy Awards; including best country female vocal performance for ‘How Do I Live.’ She’s a two-time winner of the Country Music Association’s female vocalist award, and has also netted the Academy of Country Music’s top female vocalist honor. Inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 1999, Yearwood has won kudos for her recurring role on the TV series JAG as a Navy forensic specialist.