I need help about Garth Brooks for a research paper?

Question

im doing a research paper on garth brooks and does anyone have any info on him since 1962 till now thanks

Answer 1

Early life and career
Garth Brooks grew up in Yukon, Oklahoma. His father Ray Brooks worked as a draughtsman for an oil company, while his mother Colleen Carroll was a country music singer on the Capitol Records label in the 1950s and also a regular on the Red Foley Show.

Garth grew up with an interest in music and sang in casual family settings, but his biggest interest was in athletics. He played football, baseball, and ran track in high school.

Brooks attended Oklahoma State University in Stillwater on a track scholarship as a javelin thrower. However he dropped track while at the school and graduated in 1984 with a degree in advertising.

Brooks began his professional singing career in that same year. He became very successful as a local artist, playing to packed clubs and bars in Oklahoma, particularly the Tumbleweed in Stillwater. However, a 1985 trip to Nashville to gain a record contract was a miserable failure. Brooks returned to Oklahoma and in 1986 married Sandy Mahl of Owasso, Oklahoma, whom he had met while working as a bouncer at the Tumbleweed.

In 1987, the couple moved to Nashville, and Brooks was gradually able to wend his way into the music industry. By 1988, he was signed to Capitol Records.

During the early years, Brooks frequently recorded demo records for songwriter Kent Blazy. It was Blazy who introduced Brooks to Trisha Yearwood, another unknown aspiring singer, in October 1987. The pair became immediate friends and pledged to help the other out once one of them made it big. Garth landed a record deal and tour first and took Trisha on the road as his opening act in 1991. The rest is country music history.


[edit] The success begins
Garth Brooks' eponymous first album was released in 1989 and was both a critical and chart success. It peaked at #2 in the US country album chart and reached #13 on the Billboard 200 pop album chart. Most of the album was traditionalist country, influenced in part by George Strait. The first single ahead of it was "Much Too Young To Feel This Damn Old", a country top 10 success. It was followed by his first well-known song, "If Tomorrow Never Comes", which was his first country #1 and is still considered one of his best-crafted efforts. "Not Counting You" reached #2, and then "The Dance" put him at #1 again; this song's theme of people dying in the course of doing something they believe in resonated strongly and together with a popular music video gave Brooks his first push towards a broader audience. Brooks has also claimed that of all the songs he has recorded, "The Dance" is his favorite.

The album No Fences followed in 1990. It reached #1 on the Billboard country music chart (staying there for 23 weeks) and #3 on the pop chart, and would go on to become Brooks' biggest-selling album, with global sales of over 20 million copies. It contained what would become Brooks' signature song, the blue collar anthem "Friends in Low Places", which was a favorite of American troops serving in the 1991 Gulf War. The album contained two other Brooks classics, the dramatic and controversial "The Thunder Rolls" and the philosophically ironic "Unanswered Prayers". Also a hit was the affectionate "Two of a Kind, Workin’ on a Full House"; all four of these songs hit #1 on the country chart.

While Brooks' music was definitely in the country idiom, he had also absorbed a sensibility from the 1970s singer-songwriter movement, especially James Taylor (whom he idolized and named his first child after) and Dan Fogelberg. Similarly, Brooks was influenced by the operatic rock of the 1970s-era Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen. In his highly successful live shows, Brooks used a wireless headset microphone to free himself to run about the stage, adding energy and arena rock theatrics to spice up the normally staid country music approach to concerts. Finally, Brooks' music was influenced by the progressive bluegrass band New Grass Revival.[citation

Answer 2

Garth Brooks
Country Musician / Country Singer


Born: 7 February 1962
Birthplace: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Best known as: Country-pop singer of "Shameless" and "Friends in Low Places"
Garth Brooks is one of the biggest crossover country music singers of all time. His combination of cheerful enthusiasm and pudgy boy-next-door looks was a consistent hit with both country and pop music audiences, who bought millions of copies of albums including Ropin' the Wind (1991), The Chase (1992), and Fresh Horses (1995). His hit singles included "Friends in Low Places," "The Thunder Rolls" and "Shameless." The Garth Brooks craze was hottest in the mid-1990s, when he won dozens of industry awards and was named both Country and Pop Artist of the Year by Billboard magazine.
Extra credit: Brooks also released a 1999 album titled In the Life of Chris Gaines, in which he took the role of a fictional alter ego, pop star Chris Gaines... Brooks married country star and frequent collaborator Trisha Yearwood on 10 December 2005. Brooks had earlier been married to the former Sandy Mahl from 1986 until their separation in 1999; they were officially divorced in 2001. They had three daughters: Taylor (b. 1992), August (b. 1994) and Allie (b. 1996).

Answer 3

What!? No fu manchu for Evil Garth? Being green and having horns does not make one evil, having a fu manchu does. Either way, Good Garth would keep singing "Friends in Low Places" on and on and on.....until Evil Garth simply committed suicide.

Answer 4

Used to throw javelin in track at Oklahoma State.

His wife and him just built a huge house outside Broken Arrow, OK.

His mom lives just outside of Edmond, OK.

Answer 5

real name is Troyel Garth Brooks and he was born in Yukon ,OK

Answer 6

he also went by the alias chris gaines
he used to play baseball - or at least try out for the san diego padres i believe

Answer 7

Try here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Brooks

Answer 8

garthbrooks.com

it has a biography on there

Answer 9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Brooks


everything about him