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Trisha Yearwood Facts
Full name: Trisha Lynn Yearwood
Birthdate: September 19, 1964
Birth place: Monticello, Ga.
Hair color: Blonde
Eye color: Green/Blue
Height: 5 ft. 8 in.
Residence: A two-bedroom log home on 18 acres outside of Nashville.
Education: Graduated in 1987 from Nashville's Belmont College with a degree in music business.
Personality: Modest, down-to-earth, organized, efficient, perfectionist
Label: MCA
Platinum Albums: Trisha Yearwood (1991, 2 million);
Hearts in Armor (1992, 1 million);
The Song Remembers When (1993, 1 million);
Thinkin' About You (1995, 1 million)
Songbook: A Collection of Hits (1997, 2 million)
Grammys: 1994 Best Country Vocal Collaboration
for "I Fall to Pieces" with Aaron Neville; 1997
Best Female Country Vocal Performance
for "How Do I Live";
1997 Best Country Collaboration with Vocals
for "In Another's Eyes" with Garth Brooks
Country Music Association Awards: 1994 Album of the Year
(Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles);
1997 Female Vocalist of the Year
1998 Female Vocalist of the Year
Academy of Country Music Award: 1991 New Female Vocalist of the Year
Billboard Top 5 singles: "She's in Love With the Boy" (No. 1, 1991);
"Like We Never Had a Broken Heart" (No. 4, 1991);
"The Woman Before Me" (No. 4, 1992);
"Wrong Side of Memphis" (No. 5, 1992);
"Walkaway Joe" (with Don Henley, No. 2, 1992);
"The Song Remembers When" (No. 2, 1993);
"XXX's and OOO's (An American Girl)" (No. 1, 1994);
"Thinkin' About You" (No. 1, 1995);
"Believe Me Baby (I Lied)" (No. 1, 1996);
"Everybody Knows" (No. 3, 1996);
"How Do I Live" (No. 2, 1997);
"In Another's Eyes" (with Garth Brooks, No. 2, 1997);
"Perfect Love" (No. 1, 1998);
"There Goes My Baby" (No. 2, 1998)


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