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Garth Brooks (born Troyal Garth Brooks on February
7, 1962 in Tulsa, Oklahoma|Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an
United States|American  singer/songwriter, actor
and charity director who performs country music.
He is also known for using other styles such as
Pop and Rock as an influence in his music (and has
even recorded Rap). Brooks also has 4 albums
certified RIAA diamond (10+ million copies), a
record for a male solo performer, and the second
overall (behind The Beatles with 6)

He won a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal
Performance in 1992 for the album Ropin' The Wind.
He was awarded  the Academy of Country Music 
award for Entertainer of the Year for 1990, 1991,
1992 and 1993, and the award for Top Male Vocalist
for 1990 and 1991.  As a performer and artist he
has been compared to fellow country and pop/rock
legends, such as the likes of Elvis Presley, The
Beatles, Jackson Browne, Kenny Rogers, George
Strait, George Jones and The Eagles.

Brooks began his professional singing career in
1984. He became very successful as a local artist,
playing to packed clubs and bars in Oklahoma. By
1989, he was signed to Capitol records. Since that
time he has gone on to enjoy one of the most
successful careers in music history, with over 70
hit singles and 14 charted albums to his credit.

His success as a world-wide star is evident. As
well as tremendous success across the board in
North America, Brooks had enjoyed hit records and
sell out tours in many countries, including
Ireland, Britain, Spain, throughout Europe,
Brazil, The Far East, New Zealand, Australia, etc.
In 1994, he opened London radio station, Country
1035.
 
For a joint music and movie project, he created a
fictional character,  a pop singer called Chris
Gaines,  whose album only sold a little over 2
million copies; acceptable to most artists but a
disappointment compared to Garth's selling record.


He attended Oklahoma State University -
Stillwater|Oklahoma State University on a
athletics|track scholarship as a javelin thrower. 

In 1999, Garth Brooks began the Teammates For Kids
Foundation which provides financial aid to
charities for children.  The organization breaks
down into three categories spanning three
different sports.

* Touch 'Em All Foundation - Baseball Division
* Top Shelf - Hockey Division
* Touchdown - Football Division

The foundation enlists players to donate a
predetermined sum of money depending on their game
performance. Brooks has participated in spring
training for the San Diego Padres in 1998 and
1999; the New York Mets in 2000, and most recently
currently with the Kansas City Royals in 2004 to
promote his Foundation.

In 1986, Brooks married Sandy Mahl. The couple had
three children: Taylor Mayne Pearl, born July 8,
1992; August Anna, born May 3, 1994; and Allie
Colleen, born July 28, 1996. They divorced in
2001.

In 2000, Brooks announced he would be retiring
from performing after the release of his 2001
album Scarecrow, until his youngest daughter,
Allie, turns 18.

On May 25, 2005, Brooks announced his engagement
to fellow country superstar Trisha Yearwood. 

== Achievements ==
* Garth Brooks is the only artist to have seven
albums debut at number one on both The Billboard
200 and Billboard's Top Country Albums charts:
Ropin' the Wind, The Chase, In Pieces, Sevens, The
Limited Series, Double Live, Scarecrow.
* Capitol Records shipped 5 million copies of The
Chase which, at the time, was the largest initial
shipment in music history.
* Fresh Horses made history as the first album to
have 8 out of 10 tracks on the country music
singles charts at the same time.
* Follow-up Sevens broke his own record, with 12
out of 14 tracks on the singles charts.
* Every Rosemont Horizon (now Allstate Arena)
record was broken by Garth when he sold over
140,000 concert tickets in 1997 alone.
* Garth Brooks was the first artist to debut a
live album at number one on two charts (Double
Live).
* Double Live is the best-selling live album in
music history.
** Double Live set the all-time record for first
week sales 1,085,373 copies. (However, this record
was broken by Britney Spears in 2000 (1.3 million
with Oops!... I Did It Again), Eminem (1.7 million
with The Marshall Mathers LP), and *NSYNC (2.41
million with No Strings Attached.) 
** This was also the record for any one week sales
period for any genre artist in history.
* Garth had the largest crowd to ever attend a
concert in Central Park on August 7, 1997.  It is
estimated that over 1 million people showed for
the live concert and 14.6 million saw it live on
HBO.
* Garth had 3 albums at the top of the Billboard
pop charts at the same time in 1998 (Sevens, The
Limited Series, and Double Live).  He was the
first to do this since Elton John in 1975.

=== Awards ===
* 2 Grammy Awards (total of 6 nominations)
* 16 American Music Awards
* 11 Country Music Association|Country Music
Association Awards 
* 18 Academy of Country Music|Academy of Country
Music Awards 
* 5 World Music Awards
* 10 People's Choice Awards
* 24 Billboard Music Awards
* 2 American Society of Composers, Authors, and
Publishers|ASCAP Awards
* 2 Blockbuster Awards
* American Music Awards, Artist of the Decade
(1990s)
* Academy of Country Music|Academy of Country
Music Awards, Artist of the Decade (1990s)
* Recording Industry Association of America,
Artist of the Century (1900s)
* 1 Radio Music Award
* 7 Primetime Emmy Award nominations (Outstanding
in a Variety of Music Program)
* 1 Golden Globe Award|Golden Globe nomination
(Best Original Song)
* Songwriters Hall of Fame: 2002

== Discography ==
* Garth Brooks (album)|Garth Brooks (April 12,
1989 | US Sales: 9 million copies)
* No Fences (August 27, 1990 | US Sales: 16
million copies)
* Call Me Claus (August 27, 1990 | for the
made-for-TV movie of the same name)
* Ropin' The Wind (September 10, 1991 | US Sales:
14 million copies)
* Beyond the Season (August 25, 1992 | US Sales: 3
million copies)
* The Chase (album)|The Chase (September 22, 1992
| US Sales: 8 million copies)
* In Pieces (August 31, 1993 | US Sales: 8 million
copies)
* The Garth Brooks Collection (September 2, 1994 |
charity for Ronald McDonald House --$3 million
made)
* The Hits (album)|The Hits (December 13, 1994 |
US Sales: 10 million copies)
* Fresh Horses (November 21, 1995 | US Sales: 6
million copies)
* Sevens (album)|Sevens (November 25, 1997 | US
Sales: 7 million copies)
* The Limited Series (May 5, 1998 | US sales were
"limited" at 2 million)
* Double Live (Garth Brooks album)|Double Live
(November 17, 1998 | US Sales: 16 million copies)
* The Magic of Christmas (November 23, 1999 | US
Sales: 1 million copies)
* Garth Brooks In... The Life of Chris Gaines
(September 28, 1999 | US Sales: 2 million copies)
* Scarecrow (2001 album)|Scarecrow (November 13,
2001 | US Sales: 3 million copies)

Total US album sales: 105 million.

==Personal Quotes==

* "No matter where in the world we go, from the
countries it was released as a single to the
countries that it wasn't, it doesn't seem to
matter, people just know that opening, no doubt
about it, "Friends In Low Places" is the most
recognised Garth Brooks song."

* "I truly believe if Country music had the
accessibility Pop and Rock has been granted it
would be the biggest musical format on the planet"

* "There have been hundreds people before me in
this seat who will never be up here again and
that's because the people were through with them,
so I hope i can see it coming, so i can either
retire gracefully and go out with some kind of
class, i'll be faced with that decision to either
do that or either hang in for one more album and
see what happens"

* ( after being asked if he felt his was "born to
sing and entertain people" )"Well I hope I was,
cause if there's something else I'm meant to be
doing I'm missing the boat"

* "I don't talk very well, but hopefully in my
music we can get something across"

*( After being compared to Elvis Presley)  "Come
on, let's be realistic..... Noone will ever touch
Elvis"

* "If you do it for the money you won't last very
long, because money is the opposite of music"

* "I want to thank the good lord, because he's
done a heck of a lot for me"

== See also ==
* List of best selling music artists
* Garth Vader
* The Dance (Garth Brooks)

== External links ==
* http://www.planetgarth.com/ Planet Garth:
Unofficial homepage with lots of information,
songtexts, pictures and news
* http://www.garthbrooks.com/ Official homepage at
Capitol Records
* http://www.roughstock.com/garth/ A lot of
information and a detailed list with milestones
and records


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