“Education was a given, only because of the way I was raised. Truth be told, I thought, at 15 years old, I should go and get a record deal and drop out of school, and my parents would have had none of that. I'm grateful now that my parents were pushing me in that way, because I wasn't mature enough on so many levels to do that.”

American country singer

Trisha Yearwood is an American country singer who rose to prominence in the early 1990s. Born Patricia Lynn Yearwood, she is best known for her breakthrough single, "She's in Love with the Boy," and for the success that followed. Her debut album sold more than two million copies, and she followed it with a run of major country hits in the 1990s, including "The Woman Before Me," "Walkaway Joe," "The Song Remembers When," "XXX's and OOO's," and "Believe Me Baby."