Trisha Yearwood is the second wife of American country music singer, Garth Brooks.
Trisha Yearwood is an American singer, actress, author and television personality.
She was born Patricia Lynn Yearwood on September 19, 1964, in Monticello, Georgia, United States to schoolteacher Gwendolyn Yearwood and local banker Jack Howard Yearwood.
After graduating high school, Yearwood studied for two years at Young Harris College, receiving an associate degree in business. She then earned a music business degree from Belmont College in Nashville, Tennessee.
Yearwood gained an internship with MTM Records and was eventually hired as a full-time employee.
She rose to fame with her 1991 debut single “She’s in Love with the Boy,” which became a number one hit on the Billboard country singles chart. Its corresponding self-titled debut album would sell over two million copies.
Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks had been friends and musical partners before romantically seeing each other. Following Brooks’s divorce and Yearwood’s second divorce, the duo began dating around 2002.
The pair became engaged on May 25, 2005 when Brooks proposed to Yearwood onstage amidst a crowd of 7,000 in Bakersfield, California.
Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks married on December 10, 2005, at their home in Owasso, Oklahoma.
She became a stepmother to Brooks’s three children following their marriage.
Trisha Yearwood was previously married to Chris Latham and Robert Reynolds.