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You might recognize Trisha Yearwood’s name from country music.
But Yearwood’s career didn’t happen over night.
Rather, it took time to cultivate.
(Though she has admitted that music always comes first, as she toldIn Touch!)
Read on to check out Yearwood’s stunning transformation from small-town girl to country music maven.
ToCountry Living, Yearwood called her childhood home an “organic heaven, before organic was cool.”
Meanwhile, she had dreams of a career in music.
As Yearwood wrote in an article forGood Housekeeping,she graduated from high school and pursued higher education.
But she “was miserable,” she admitted.
“I really just wanted to be in Nashville,” she said during the Q&A.
“I felt like this was the place where the music I wanted to make was being made.
She also got a job working as a receptionist at a record label.
The two country music insiders got married when Yearwood was in her 20s and she was in college.
This was all just before her country music career really took off.
But Trisha Yearwood is a total country music success story even if her first marriage was not.
Yearwood and her first husband, Chris Latham, ultimately split up in 1991, according toCelebrity Mirror.
“Well, I just have to go out and show ‘em all what Trisha’sreallymade of.”
And that’s exactly what she did.
Additionally, both her debut record and her 1992 follow-up,Hearts in Armor, went platinum.
And it’s because of their solid friendship that she believes their relationship works so well.
Andthat, she said, is key.
They both believe that they’d been “called to” country music, so they just plaingeteach other.
In it, she teaches readers how to whip up everything from chicken tortilla soup to banana pudding.
And in a 2020 Facebook live video, Yearwood teased she was working on a fourth cookbook.
She also likes to get involved in community work.
For example, she and her husband, Garth Brooks, work quite closely with Habitat for Humanity.
She toldParadethat she even helped to launch Habitat for Humanity’s National Women Build Week.
Yearwood was involved in a number of Habitat for Humanity builds over the years.
The first time she picked up a hammer, she said that she fell in love with the work.
That’s right Yearwood landed her own cooking show,Trisha’s Southern Kitchen, on Food Networkin 2012.
She wanted a show that was fun and real, where she could interact with others and be herself.
“It’s real,” she explained.
“It’s like they can’t miss you if you don’t go away.”
Fortunately,Every Girlfound success, and it led to her going on tour.
“It’s been really fun,” she said in an exclusive interview withSheKnows.
While she didn’t expect that, she said she indeed enjoyed it.
“I’ve always been the open to whatever opportunities come.”
And there will likely be more opportunities to come her way, she assumed in the interview.
When they do, she said she’ll keep an open mind.
