Garth Brooks Biography
Garth Brooks an American singer and songwriter known for his integration of rock and pop elements into the country genre, the special sound has earned him popularity, especially in the United States with success on the country music single and album charts, multi-platinum recordings and record-breaking live performances, while also winning fans in the mainstream pop sphere.
Garth Brooks Age
He was born on February 7, 1962, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.
Garth Brooks Music
Brooks is widely known for his integration of rock and pop elements into the country genre, the special sound has earned him popularity, especially in the United States with success on the country music single and album charts, multi-platinum recordings and record-breaking live performances, while also winning fans in the mainstream pop sphere.
According to the RIAA, Brooks is the best-selling solo albums artist in the United States as of 2020 with 156 million domestic units sold, leading ahead of Elvis Presley, and additionally second only to The Beatles in total album sales overall. He is additionally one of the world’s best-selling artists of all time, having sold over 170 million records.
As of 2020, Brooks holds the record of the most albums that achieved diamond status in the United States (outdoing the Beatles’ former record of six); those albums are Double Live (21× platinum), Ropin’ the Wind (14× platinum), The Chase (10× platinum), The Hits (10× platinum), Garth Brooks (10× platinum), No Fences (17× platinum), Sevens (10× platinum), and The Ultimate Hits (10× platinum).
Brooks became a Country Music Hall of Fame inductee on October 21, 2012, having been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame the previous year. Brooks was further inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2016 with his studio musicians, The G-Men. On March 4, 2020, Brooks earned the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. At age 58, he remains the youngest winner of the award.
Garth Brooks Net worth
Brooks has an estimated net worth of $350 million as of 2020.
Garth Brooks Albums
- No Fences
- Ropin’ the Wind
- The Chase
- In Pieces
- Fresh Horses
- Sevens
- Scarecrow
- Man Against Machine
- Gunslinger
- The Garth Brooks Collection
- The Hits Double Live
- The Lost Sessions
- The Ultimate Hits
Garth Brooks Songs
- Friends in Low Places
- The Thunder Rolls
- If Tomorrow Never Comes
- The Dance
- Unanswered Prayers
- Standing Outside the Fire
- Shameless
- That Summer
- Papa Loved Mama
- Callin’ Baton Rouge
- Ain’t Goin’ Down
- Much Too Young
- More Than a Memory
- Two Pina Coladas
- Two of a Kind, Workin’ on a Full House
- We Shall Be Free
- She’s Every Woman
- The River
- Rodeo
- Wrapped Up in You
- Ask Me How I Know
- When You Come Back to Me Again
- Learning to Live Again
- Longneck Bottle
- The Red Strokes
- Somewhere Other Than the Night
- American Honky-Tonk Bar Association
- She’s Gonna Make It
- What She’s Doing Now
- People Loving People
- It’s Your Song
- Not Counting You
Garth Brooks Education
Brooks attended Oklahoma State University–Stillwater where he starred on the track team. He then later completed his MBA from Oklahoma State. At Brooks’s home in Yukon, Oklahoma, the family hosted weekly talent nights. All of the children were required to participate, either by singing or doing skits. Brooks acquired skills to play both the guitar and banjo.
He often sang in random family environments, but his primary focus was athletics. In high school, he was a football and baseball player and ran track and field. He got a track scholarship to Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, where he competed in the javelin.
Garth Brooks Height and Weight and Weight
Brooks stands tall at a height of around 5 feet 97 in (1.82 m) and a moderate weight.
Garth Brooks Family
Brooks was born to Troyal Raymond Brooks, Jr., a draftsman for an oil company, and Colleen McElroy Carroll, a 1950s-era country singer of Irish ancestry who recorded on the Capitol Records label and appeared on Ozark Jubilee. He was born the youngest child of his parents who both had married for the second time giving Brooks four older half-siblings; Jim, Jerry, Mike, and Betsy. His parents had two children together, Kelly and Garth.
Garth Brooks First Wife
Brooks married a songwriter Sandy Mahl, on May 24, 1986 and ater had three daughters: Taylor Mayne Pearl, August Anna, and Allie Colleen Brooks.The duol separated in March 1999, announcing their plans to divorce on October 9, 2000, and filing for divorce on November 6, 2000. The divorce became final on December 17, 2001. They remarried on December 10, 2005, to country singer Trisha Yearwood.