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Trisha Yearwood Interview & Live Performance
by Academy of Achievement
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
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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…
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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
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