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Garth Brooks Wiki Biography

Troyal Garth Brooks was born on 7 February 1962, in Tulsa, Oklahoma USA, and as Garth Brooks is a popular country music singer and song writer, who is known all across the world especially for integrating rock elements into his recordings and live performances, earning immeasurable popularity. This modern approach allowed him to dominate on the country single and album charts while crossing over into the mainstream pop arena.

So just how rich is Garth Brooks? Sources estimate that Garth’s net worth reaches $150 million, which certainly makes him one of the millionaires in the music industry.

Garth Brooks’ father, Troyal Raymond Brooks, Jr. worked as a draftsman for an oil company, but his mother, Colleen McElroy Carroll, was 1950s country singer, and encouraged her children to sing from an early age, with Garth also learning to play the guitar and banjo. However, in his youth he was more interested in sports, to the point of gaining a scholarship to Oklahoma State University, from where he graduated with a degree in advertising in 1984. He then started playing in clubs and bars around Oklahoma, and was eventually persuaded to move to Nashville – the mecca of country music – and released his first discs in 1989.

From 1989 onwards, Brooks’ net worth increased considerably: 19 records altogether have been released, which include 10 studio albums, one live album, three compilation albums, three Christmas albums and three box sets, along with 77 singles. Garth Brooks’ net worth increased significantly after he broke records for both sales and concert attendance during the 1990s.

Brooks’ net worth rose steadily after each album was released. His popularity is confirmed by six albums achieving diamond status in the United States,  ‘Garth Brooks’ 10 times platinum, ‘No Fences’ is 17 times, ‘Ropin’ the Wind’ 14 times, ‘The Hits’ 10 times, ‘Sevens’ 10 times and ‘Double Live’ 21 times.

A great impact on Garth Brooks’ net worth was also made by awards, as he is the winner of certain important awards including two Grammy Awards, 17 American Music Awards and the RIAA Award as the Best Selling Solo Albums Artist of the Century in the United States. Brooks was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on October 21, 2012.

Gary Brooks officially retired from recording and performing from 2001 till 2009. During this time, Garth sold millions of albums thus increasing his net worth. In 2005, Brooks started a partial return and gave a couple of performances releasing two compilation albums. In 2009, Garth Brooks officially announced his return to the stage, and began a five-year concert contract with the Encore Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip., which ended in 2014.

According to 2013 data, Garth Brooks’ recordings continue to sell well. Nielsen Soundscan, an information and sales tracking system, state that his album sales up to May 2013 grosses 68 million copies which makes him the best-selling album artist in the United States since 1991, which has obviously added to Garth’s net worth. This title is held since 1991, well over 5 million ahead of his nearest challengers, The Beatles. Brooks is also one of the best-selling artists worldwide of all time, as he has sold more than 150 million records.

In his personal life, in 1986 Brooks married Sandy Mahl, and the couple have three daughters but divorced in 2000. Garth Brooks married again, to country singer Trisha Yearwood in 2005.

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Garth Brooks Quick Info

Garth Brooks Trademarks

1. Cowboy Hat

Garth Brooks Quotes

• “Happiness isn’t getting what you want, it’s wanting what you got.” quoted in Family Circle (10-1-06 issue)

Garth Brooks Important Facts

• He was a four sport athlete in high school competing in football, basketball, baseball and track.
• He spent the 2000 baseball Spring Training Season with New York Mets in Port St. Lucie, FL.
• Played 5 sold out shows in 2 days at the Staples Center in Los Angeles to raise money for victims of the recent wildfires and to fund future firefighting efforts. [January 2008]
• He spent the 2004 baseball Spring Training season with the Kansas City Royals in Surprise, AZ to raise awareness for a charity.
• Proposed to country singer Trisha Yearwood on stage Wednesday night (May 25) at Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace in Bakersfield, California. [May 2005]
• Will release a new CD exclusively through Wal*Mart on February 7th entitled “The Lost Sessons”, which includes 17 songs personally selected from Garth Brooks himself from his vault. On it is his recent no. 1 hit “Good Ride Cowboy”, and the new duet with him and Trisha Yearwood entitled “Love Will Always Win”. [February 2006]
• Parted ways with his record label Capitol Records [June 2005]
• His daughter, Anna Brooks, gave birth to a girl, Karalynn, in July 2013 in Oklahoma.
• Publicly invited fellow Okie Carrie Underwood, on March 15, 2008, to join the Grand Ole Opry. She accepted.
• Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, on October 21, 2012, in Nashville, Tennessee.
• His mother Colleen Carroll was a country singer in the 1950s.
• Brother-in-law of Beth Bernard.
• Son-in-law of Jack Yearwood and Gwen Yearwood.
• He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 1750 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
• The video to his song “Thunder Rolls” was banned from television due to the showing of domestic violence. The video depicts a women shooting her husband during an argument. The ban on the video has been lifted since the late ’90s.
• When his 1991 album “Ropin’ the Wind” topped the Billboard pop chart, it became the first country album ever to do so.
• Has a street in Yukon, Oklahoma named after him.
• Has 3rd verses to his two hit songs “Friends In Low Place” and “The Thunder Rolls”. They cannot be heard on the the “No Fences” album. The 3rd verses can only be heard when Garth performs it live or on a Garth Brooks live album. Most country stations play the live versions of both now.
• Song, “The Change” was not written about the 1995 Oklahoma Bombing, as some people think, it was written months before and “Fresh Horses” was completely finished. Garth decided to dedicate the song and video to Oklahoma, complete with video footage of the aftermath.
• Martina McBride sold T-shirts on his tour, before she had hit it big. Her husband, John McBride, worked for Garth by scoring his music.
• Is now selling his music exclusively through Wal*Mart after splitting with Capitol Records back in June 2005. The first item coming is a boxed set entitled “The Limited Series”, which will be released on November 25, 2005.
• Recorded a tribute song to his late friend, Chris LeDoux, (who died on March 9, 2005 at the age of 56) entitled “Good Ride Cowboy”, which became his 26th number one hit.
• Put out a pre-soundtrack album as fictitious character Chris Gaines for the upcoming Paramount rock’n’roll movie “The Lamb”. When the movie’s money issues caused production to stop, Garth was left with an album that many didn’t understand. He was not trying to be someone else as many wrongly assumed and it is still possible that the movie will someday finish production.
• Lives on a farm in Owasso, Oklahoma.
• Became engaged to Trisha Yearwood in Bakersfield, California on May 25, 2005.
• Attended Yukon High School in Yukon, Oklahoma.
• Born on the same day as Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan.
• Announced his retirement. He is the only solo artist to have sold 10 million or more copies of 4 individual albums, and has publically announced that he wants to be the first artist to sell 100 million albums. His last album, Scarecrow, came out 13 November 2001. (26 October 2000)
• Admitted in a Barbara Walters interview that he had cheated on his first wife repeatedly when he went on tour.
• Brooks filed for divorce in November 2000 in Davidson County Circuit Court (TN), citing irreconcilable differences.
• Daughters Taylor Mayne Pearl Brooks was born on July 8, 1992, August Anna Brooks was born on May 3, 1994 (hours before Brooks was named entertainer of the year for a fourth consecutive time at the Academy of Country Music Awards), and Allie Colleen Brooks was born on July 28, 1996.
• His fall 2001 single, “Beer Run (B Double-E Double-R You In?)” is a duet with one of his idols, George Jones.
• Has scored 18 No. 1 hits on Billboard magazine’s Hot Country Singles chart. His biggest hits include “The Dance” and “Friends in Low Places” (both 1990); “The Thunder Rolls” (1991); “What She’s Doing Now” (1992); and “Ain’t Goin’ Down (‘Til the Sun Comes Up)” (1993), which was the first song since Glen Campbell’s 1975 hit “Rhinestone Cowboy” to spend nonconsecutive weeks at #1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
• Is a 1984 graduate of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater
• Earned a degree in advertising.
• He has three daughters: Taylor Mayne Pearl Brooks (b. 1992), August Anna Brooks (b. 1994) and Allie Colleen Brooks (b. 1996).
• Went to Oklahoma State University on a javelin throwing scholarship.
• Once ended a TV concert by smashing his guitar, and giving the pieces to a fan in the front row.
• He spent the 1999 baseball Spring Training season with the San Diego Padres in Peoria , AZ.
• Is obsessed with brushing his teeth. Claims to have over 80 toothbrushes in his house.
• His ex-wife, Sandy Mahl, was his college sweetheart.
• In July of 1993, Brooks threatened to withhold his albums from stores that sell used CDs, calling the practice “evil”. He dropped his boycott after dismal sales of his subsequent album, “In Pieces”, forced him to distribute it in the stores he was boycotting.

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