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Garth Brooks Profile

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Garth Brooks

Garth Brooks

Name: Troyal Garth Brooks
Birth date: February 7, 1962
Paying dues: His first paying gig was for $175 a week at Shotgun Sam's Pizza Parlor in Oklahoma City
Spouse: Garth married fellow country music artist Trisha Yearwood in a private ceremony on their Oklahoma ranch on December 10, 2005.
Family: Three daughters from first marriage to Sandy Mahl. Taylor (born July 8, 1992), August Anna (born May 3, 1994), Allie Colleen (born July 28, 1996)
Grand Ole Opry: Joins in October 1990
Going to the Big Apple: Central Park concert in August 1997 draws 250,000 people
Cows Give More Milk?: In June 1993 a Kansas student's science fair project proves that cows give more milk when listening to Garth Brooks than when they listen to Michael Jackson
People Poll: Garth named Favorite Country Music Star in People's poll of the century, ahead of Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton and Hank Williams
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