Trisha Yearwood
Trisha Yearwood is a singer and actress extraordinaire. She is a three-time Grammy winner, two-time winner of the Country Music Association's Female Vocalist Award and has 20 top ten singles under her belt. She has released 12 albums, selling over 10 million copies.
A graduate of Belmont University in Nashville, Yearwood has performed at the Academy Awards, the Olympics and the Library of Congress. She sang with Luciano Pavarotti, one of world's most famous vocal performers, in the summer of 1998 at his benefit for Liberian children. Yearwood received a 2008 Grammy nomination for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for "Heaven, Heartache And the Power of Love" and was named one of Redbook's "Women of the Year" (2005). Yearwood was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 1999.
Yearwood's songs have appeared in numerous feature films most notably "Con Air" which featured her Grammy award winning song "How Do I Live". Yearwood also has appeared on "Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman" and has won kudos for her recurring role on the TV series "JAG."
Along with her singing and acting career, Yearwood released her first cookbook, "Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen" in April 2008 which she co-wrote with her mom and sister.
Yearwood lives with her husband, fellow country singer Garth Brooks in Oklahoma.