Trisha Yearwood Interview & Live Performance

Trisha Yearwood has been hailed as the premier pop-country interpreter of her generation. From the small town of Monticello, Georgia, she moved to Nashville at age 20 and took a job as a receptionist in a record company while recording songwriters' demo tapes for $10 a song. After six years of demo tapes, her 1991 debut album went to number two in the country charts and was certified double platinum, an unprecedented performance for a debut record by a female country artist. Her subsequent recordings saw her move from strength to strength, delving deeper into country tradition while opening her repertoire to songs from folk and pop writers. Subsequent albums have gone gold, platinum and double platinum, selling 10 million records in less than eight years. In a career spanning 20 years in the music business she has won acclaim for the honesty and sincerity of her interpretations, and for her sensitive choice of material, as well as for her warm, soaring voice. To date, she has won three Grammy Awards, Country Music Association honors, and has scored 19 top ten singles, including "She's in Love With the Boy," "Perfect Love," and "How Do I Live." In 2005 she married fellow country singer Garth Brooks. In this podcast, recorded at the 2006 International Achievement Summit in Los Angeles, Trisha Yearwood performs one of her signature songs, "How Do I Live." The performance is accompanied by excerpts from the Academy of Achievement's exclusive interview with Trisha Yearwood.