What's the story on Toby Keith?

Question

How old is he? Is he married? Does he have kids? How long has he been in show business? What did he do before he became a famous country singer?

Answer 1

Toby Keith is 46 and yes he is married with three daughters, the eldest being Krystal who is now in college and also sings. He has been singing since his dad bought him his first guitar when he was in the fourth grade. His father worked on oil rigs and travelled. He bought a home for the family in Moore Oklahoma and his mother and family still live in Moore though not the same house. Toby bought a house on acreage for the family. He married his wife, Tricia in 1984.

He was on the football team in secondary school and in high school but never played in school because as he states, that he was not one of the wealthy kids whose fathers were on the school board so he mostly sat on the bench. He still attends every OSU game on campus when he is home and early in his singing career he was given the chance to play in a OSU practice game. The coach said they could not cover him insurance wise because he was not an alumni and he laughed it off saying he wasn't going to get hurt. Ironically he was tackled and suffered a broken andkle which he had to have several pins and two plates in.

Prior to getting a job in the oil fields, he worked on a rodeo crew for test riding bulls to see if the were fit for the rodeo circuit. He got a job on the oil rig in his last year in high school and wrote songs with a friend. They got together with three other friends who were in need of a lead singer and a songwriter in which they formed a band and played small venues locally where he said he was often called away to the oil fields because he was on call. He did get signed on to the Oklahoma Drillers for a short period but had to give that up because of the conflict with his job on the oil rig and playing with friends. He was running 24-72 hr days on the rig and returning home for practice and it got to be too much. In his words, he had to choose because at 18/19 yrs old no one was making over 20 dollars an hours. It was because of his earning that he and his friends were able to put together the band and travel outside of just local clubs to be heard so that was about the time he and the band known outside of local hometown bars.

Most everyone else gave you the data on his career after being recognized and gaining a label,

Contrary to what one person stated, he does not work with quarter horses. he became interested in thorobred racing from going to the track with his father. He bought a race horse for his father that won several races until he was retired due to an injury. That is what sparked his interest in racing and today owns a multi million dollar horse racing business and personally now owns 113 thorobreds. He said last year that he will be involved with them til the day he dies. The state of Oklahoma credit him for saving horse racing in the state of Oklahoma because he went before the legislature to have it legalized. He said it was in an effort to to bring income in when many people were losing their homes due to the oil field busts.

Outside of his home life and touring he spends time and personal monies supporting the troops in iraq and afghanistan and touring tours to sing for the troops.

He also personally set up a foundation called ALlies House which is a non profit organizatin that provides housing and cancer drugs for families of children that have cancer. This was started in honor of a friend of his whose daughter died of cancer.

He is extremely devoted to his family, friends and community and civic oriented in his hometown. There may be alot that ridcule or criticise him but he is genuinely down to earth and cares deeply for the things he believes in.

lol... I may have gone off on him but I have been listening to him for about ten years now and own every cd he produced with the exception of his christmas album, including the cmt biographical interviews and homecoming tapes

Answer 2

Toby Keith Married

Answer 3

Toby Keith Covel was born in Clinton, Oklahoma. His family moved to Moore, Oklahoma (a suburb of Oklahoma City) when Keith was young. His grandmother owned a supper club and Keith became interested in the musicians who came there to play. He got his first guitar at the age of eight. Keith attended Moore High School where he played on the football team.

Keith graduated from Moore High School and, in 1979, went to work as a derrick hand in the booming oil fields of Oklahoma. He worked his way up to become an operation manager. At the age of 20, he formed the Easy Money band and they played local bars as he continued to work in the oil industry
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Answer 6

Toby Keith was born with the name Toby Keith Covel on July 8, 1961, in Clinton, Okla. The family moved to Oklahoma City when Keith was young, and it was there he became interested in the musicians who worked in his grandmother's supper club. He

got his first guitar at age 8, but it would be years before Keith would pursue music as a career. At 6-feet-4 inches, Keith worked in the oil industry and played defensive end with the Oklahoma City Drillers United States Football League (USFL) team.


In 1984, he turned to music full time, playing the honky-tonk circuit in Oklahoma and Texas with the band Easy Money. A demo tape made the rounds in Nashville, but there were no takers. After catching a show in Oklahoma, Mercury Records President Harold Shedd signed him to Mercury Records. His 1993 debut single, "Should've Been a Cowboy," went to No. 1 on the Billboard country singles chart, and his self-titled debut album was certified platinum.


When Shedd left Mercury for Polydor Records, Keith went with him. He released a second album, Boomtown, in 1994. The gold-selling collection produced the No. 1 hit "Who's That Man" and the Top 5 hit "You Ain't Much Fun." The platinum-selling Blue Moon followed in 1996, featuring introspective tunes like "Does That Blue Moon Ever Shine on You" and "Me Too."


When Polydor closed its Nashville operation, Keith returned to Mercury Nashville, releasing Dream Walkin' in 1997. The bittersweet ballad, "When We Were in Love," went to No. 2, as did a cover version of rocker Sting's divorce ode "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying." The duet earned the unlikely pair a Grammy nomination, and Sting joined Keith for a performance on the 1997 CMA Awards telecast. Keith's Greatest Hits, Volume I followed in 1998, although its lead single, "Getcha Some," failed to crack the Top 10. (It has since sold more than 2 million copies.)


Unable to see eye to eye with Mercury, Keith moved to the fledgling DreamWorks Nashville label in 1999. There he worked with label head and producer James Stroud on the studio album How Do You Like Me Now?! The lead single, "When Love Fades," was a modest hit, but the title cut was a five-week No. 1 hit. Another single, "You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This," also went to the top spot on the singles chart for three weeks.


The double-platinum success of How Do You Like Me Now?! also earned Keith some long-awaited award nominations. Keith won two Academy of Country Music awards in 2000, for male vocalist and album. In 2001, he won his first CMA award, for male vocalist. His 2001 album, Pull My Chain, produced three No. 1 hits, "I'm Just Talkin' About Tonight," "I Wanna Talk About Me" and "My List." (The latter two spent five weeks each at No. 1.) He was also nominated for six Academy of Country Music awards in 2001, though he didn't win any.


On March 24, 2001, Keith's father, H.K. Covel, was killed in a traffic accident in Oklahoma. Covel's truck was sideswiped by another vehicle, which caused his truck to swerve into another lane, where it collided with a charter bus. Within six months, the events of 9/11 prompted Keith to write "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)," a song about his father's patriotism that pulled no punches. As the lead single from the 2002 album Unleashed, the song peaked at No. 1 over the Independence Day weekend.


Keith had been invited to sing the hit during an ABC special hosted by Peter Jennings, but the offer was rescinded because the song didn't fit the format of the show, according to Jennings. Keith's fans were in an uproar. Shortly after that, the Dixie Chicks' lead singer Natalie Maines told a Los Angeles newspaper that she considered the song "ignorant" and that "anybody could write 'boot in your ***,'" a memorable lyric from that song. Both events made headlines around the country, and Keith found himself on several news programs, which introduced him to a more mainstream audience.


The 2002 album Unleashed sold 3 million copies, due to the feisty "Who's Your Daddy?", the hugely popular Willie Nelson duet "Beer for My Horses" and relentless touring. He also joined Nelson, one of Keith's heroes, at Farm Aid 2002 in Pittsburgh.


Nominated for numerous awards, Keith opened the 2003 ACM ceremony with Nelson, singing "Beer for My Horses." Later, toward the end of the telecast, the Dixie Chicks were beamed in from an Austin, Texas, performance, with Maines wearing a T-shirt with the letters "F.U.T.K." When Keith was absent when his name was called for entertainer of the year, many figured he'd left in anger. But he later remarked that he was on the bus writing a song with Nelson. Later in the year, he was nominated for seven CMA awards, but again, won none.


Keith released the album Shock 'n Y'all in 2003, and it debuted at No. 1. A year later, he offered Greatest Hits, Vol. 2, although none of the songs on Shock 'n Y'all -- including "American Soldier" and "I Love This Bar" -- appeared on that collection.



In 2005, he issued Honkytonk University and completed his contract with Universal, which had absorbed some of Dreamworks' roster in a corporate merger. Rather than sign to another label, he started his own, Show Dog Records. He released the imprint's first album, White Trash With Money, in 2006.


His non-musical pursuits include working with Quarter Horses and lending his name to a chain of restaurants, called I Love This Bar and Grill. He starred in the Paramount/CMT film Broken Bridges in late 2006 and released the soundtrack on Show Dog