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Moving to Nashville in 1985, Yearwood began singing demos. Garth Brooks enlisted her to sing backup on his debut and to tour with him; through Brooks, she met producer Garth Fundis, who produced Trisha Yearwood (#2 C&W, 1991). The album was an instant success, its singles, "She�s in Love with the Boy" (#1 C&W, 1991), "Like We Never Had a Broken Heart" (#4 C&W, 1991) (which Yearwood cowrote with Brooks), and "That�s What I Like About You" (#8 C&W, 1992), helping Yearwood win the Academy of Country Music�s Top New Female Vocalist Award in 1992. Featuring "Wrong Side of Memphis" (#5 C&W, 1992), "The Woman Before Me" (#4 C&W, 1992), and a duet with Don Henley, "Walkaway Joe" (#2 C&W, 1993), Hearts in Armor (#46 pop, #12 C&W, 1992) consolidated Yearwood�s gains. In 1992 she contributed a version of Elvis Presley�s hit "You�re the Devil in Disguise" to the Honeymoon in Vegas soundtrack. By 1993 she had signed a deal with Revlon to market a perfume called Wild Heart, been featured in the movie This Thing Called Love, and been the subject of a biography, Get Hot or Go Home-Trisha Yearwood: The Making of a Nashville Star by Lisa Gubernick. The Song Remembers When (#40 pop, #6 C&W, 1993), with its accompanying cable-television special and singles "You Say You Will" (#12 C&W, 1993), "Down on My Knees" (#19 C&W, 1993), and the title track (#2 C&W, 1993), continued her rise. In 1993 she contributed "New Kid in Town" to the Eagles tribute, Common Thread; the following year she duetted with Aaron Neville on the Grammy-winning "I Fall to Pieces," for the anthology Rhythm, Country and Blues. Yearwood�s fourth album, Thinkin� About You (#3 pop, #8 C&W), was released on Valentine�s Day, 1995. Born Patricia Lynn Yearwood, September 19, 1964, Monticello, Georgia
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With a gold debut album and a marketably smooth voice, Trisha Yearwood epitomized the early-Nineties Nashville artist: grounded in country tradition but reaching an audience raised on Seventies pop.
