Garth Brooks
 Full name: Troyal Garth Brooks; Troyal is after his father, and his mother chose the name Garth in honor of his great-great-grandfather Ruben Garth Hedley, a Confederate officer
Birth date: Feb. 7, 1962
Birthplace: Tulsa, Okla.
Raised: Yukon, Okla.
Height: 6 ft. 1 in.
Hair: brown, but graying
Eyes: blue
Parents: father Troyal Raymond, a former Marine; mother Colleen Carroll, a Capitol Records recording artist in the 1950s
Siblings: sister Betsy; brothers Kelly, Mike, Jim and Jerry Wife: Sandy, married May 24, 1986;
they met while they were both students at Oklahoma State University.
Children: Taylor Mayne Pearl, born July 8, 1992; August Anna, born May 3, 1994; Allie Colleen,
born July 28, 1996.
Residence: a farm north of Nashville, in Goodlettsville, Tenn., that Garth calls "Some Day
Valley".
Early performance: Garth was a big Fig Newton in a fourth grade talent show
First band: The Nye, age 17
Education: graduated Oklahoma State University in 1984 with a degree in journalism; attended
on a partial track scholarship, his specialty was javelin
Platinum albums: Garth Brooks (1989, 7 million); No Fences (1990, 14 million); Ropin' the Wind
(1991, 11 million); Beyond the Season (1992, 3 million); The Chase (1992, 6 million); In Pieces
(1993, 6 million); The Garth Brooks Collection (1994, 3 million); The Hits (1994, 9 million);
Fresh Horses (1995, 4 million); Sevens (1997, 5 million) Total albums sold: more than 68 million
in domestic certified sales; more than 73 million worldwide Billboard No. 1 singles: "If Tomorrow
Never Comes" (1989); "The Dance" (1990); "Friends in Low Places" (1990); "Unanswered
Prayers" (1991); "Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House" (1991); "The Thunder Rolls" (1991);
"Shameless" (1991); "What She's Doing Now" (1992); "The River" (1992); "Somewhere Other
Than the Night" (1993); "That Summer" (1993); "Ain't Going Down (Til the Sun Comes Up)"
(1993); "American Honky-Tonk Bar Association" (1993); "She's Every Woman" (1995); "The
Beaches of Cheyenne" (1996); "Long Neck Bottle" (1997); "Two Piña Coladas" (1998)
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