It has been a short seven years since 1991, when the unknown demo singer from tiny Monticello, Georgia – the modest blonde-haired music business intern with the Bachelor of Business Administration degree– made music history with her first MCA Nashville release, Trisha Yearwood – the first time a debut record by a female country artist ever surpassed sales of a million copies. The album eventually went double platinum.
From that point, the heavens opened and showered their bounty on the unsuspecting, then 26 year-old singer. Trisha began to tour with Garth Brooks, meaning the first live audiences she played to Brooks’ massive crowds. Trisha stood up to all the pressure, astonishing both the listening public and Nashville music-makers with her undeniable, pitch-perfect vocal instrument and the poise she exhibited under the tension of instant fame.
In the midst of it all, in May 1994, Trisha married Mavericks’ bassist Robert Reynolds at the Ryman Auditorium, celebrating their commitment to each other against the backdrop of country music history. Known for some feisty songs of female independence, Trisha wryly promised audiences that she was not going to let love make her mushy, allowing that she "married him so that I might observe him more closely!"
She continues to ride wave after wave of success as three songs the only new cuts on the greatest hits album – overlapped one another on the charts. By the time she won the ACM award for Female Vocalist of 1998, the first words out of her mouth when accepting the award were, "I can’t believe this is still happening!"