 Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7,
1962 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American country music singer
songwriter and charity director.
Garth Brooks was a phenomenal musical force
in the 1990s. He had his chart breakthrough in 1989, having come
apparently from nowhere, and was an immediate commercial
success. Lacking the tall and lanky physical appearance typical
of some male country stars, Garth Brooks successfully integrated
pop and rock elements into his recordings and live performances.
He soon began to dominate the country singles and country albums
charts and quickly crossed over into the mainstream pop arena,
selling records like no one else in country music ever had and
exposing country music to a larger audience than previously
thought possible.
Garth Brooks enjoyed one of the most
successful careers in popular music history, with over 70 hit
singles and 15 charted albums to his credit and over 115 million
albums sold in the US alone, breaking records for both sales and
concert attendance throughout the 1990s. Possibly dissatisfied
and looking to expand his career boundaries, Garth Brooks then
attempted an artistically ambitious (but uncompleted) multimedia
project involving a fictitious alter ego.
Troubled by the conflicts between career and
family, the year after the decade ended Garth Brooks announced
his retirement from recording and performing, thereby
disappearing from the music world as suddenly as he had come. To
his many fans the world over, Garth Brooks remains a legend.
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