Garth Brooks biography [1962-2022] Best-selling living artist

It is curious how, despite being surrounded by musica at home, Brooks focused on sports during his childhood and adolescence. His main passion, track and field 🏃🏽, although he also had time for soccer or baseball. In addition, he received a track and field scholarship to Oklahoma University, where he also participated in javelin throwing.

• In 1984 Brooks graduated in Advertising 🎓 and combined his studies working as a bouncer in a bar.

Already graduated from college, Brooks begins a year later to sing and play guitar with Santa Fe, his own band, in bars throughout Oklahoma.

• It was during that year that Brooks was discovered by Rod Phelps, who offered to produce his first single 🎤

In 1985 Brooks moved to Nashville to record his first single.

• Along with Sandy Mahl, whom he married in 1986, Brooks lived for a while between Oklahoma and Nashville, where he stayed for good in 1987.

In 1991, one year after his previous chart-breaker, Brooks releases his 3rd album, ‘Ropin’ the Wind’.

• The best singles from this album were: The River, What She’s Doing Now and a cover of Billy Joel’s Shameless.
• Thanks to this album, which reached number 1 on several charts, Brooks became the first country artist with 3 albums in Billboard 200’s Top 20 in one week 📋

Surrounded by controversy for his criticism of second-hand music stores, Brooks released ‘In Pieces’ in 1993, which took him around the globe on his first international tour 🌎.

• Polemic affected the album’s performance, even so, it reached Top 2 in the UK with The Red Strokes.
• The record also includes his very famous Callin’ Baton Rouge, which audiences still chant at all his concerts to this day.
• Standing Outside the Fire, Brook’s greates classic, deserves special mention.

In late 1995 Garth Brooks releases ‘Fresh Horses‘, another career hit led by the song She’s Every Woman and followed by a cover of Aerosmith’s The Fever.

• Brooks again embarked on a world tour.

A year later Brooks had his third and last daughter, Allie Colleen Brooks 🍼 She is the only one who is trying to follow in her father’s footsteps in music.

Already immersed in a new year, Brooks released his 7th album, ‘Sevens’, in 1997. To promote it, Garth starred in a Central Park Concert, a massive show attended by 980,000 people, a record in the history of the famous park 🎶

• This new Garth Brooks album included:
  • Longneck Bottle featuring Steve Wariner.
  • Two Pina Coladas, a smash hit.
  • To Make You Feel My Love, a cover of Bob Dylan’s song
  • In Another’s Eye, a duet with Trisha Yearwood, who would later become his second wife ❤️

In 2000 Garth Brooks announces that he is going to retire from music to take care of his daughters, but first he releases ‘Scarecrow‘, an album that does not reap the previous successes.

2001 brings the definitive breakup of his marriage to Sandy Mahl, with whom he signs the divorce that same year after 2 years of separation 💔

Brooks continues to play one-off gigs until 2014, when he returns with new music, Man Against Machine.

• The first single was People Loving People.
• On the occasion of the 25 anniversary of ‘No Fences‘, Garth Brooks decides to re-release the album with a new version of ‘Friends in Low Places‘ featuring George Strait, Jason Aldean, Florida Georgia Line and Keith Urban.

2018 was a prolific year for Garth Brooks:

• He got a new single, All Day Long.
• Released ‘Triple Live’, a 3-CD live album.
• He embarcked on a tour around the United States called ‘The Stadium Tour’.

2020 was an impasse for everyone, although Brooks took the opportunity to carry out with Trisha Yearwood a series of concerts and live shows via Facebook, which brought together some 5 million people 💻

• Later that year Garth finally released ‘Fun‘, his long awaited new album, with great singles like That’s What Cowboys Do
• He would also do a cover with his wife Trisha of the very famous Shallow from Lady Gaga’s movie, A Star Is Born ⭐