 From
Georgia to Las Vegas
Headlining
at The Orleans Showroom, July 18th through 20th, Trisha
Yearwood has been a fan of music for as long as she can
remember and knew that would be her career goal since the age of
five. “Most little kids ask Santa Claus for a doll or a bike
for Christmas,” said Yearwood. “I was always asking
for a tape recorder because I wanted to hear my voice on tape.”
Like most hopeful young artists, Yearwood began singing around her
hometown of Monticello, Georgia and it didn’t take long before
she found her validation
in a little bar in Macon, Georgia.
“It
was talent night and I was 16…not old enough to go into the
bar,” Yearwood recalls. “But if you won, you got $50
and you got to come back on Friday night and sing with the house
band. I talked to my parents and I said, ‘You guys go with
me and we’ll do it.’ I got to go in and sing that Friday
night with the band and the $50 check is still hanging on my bulletin
board in Georgia.”
After
graduating, Yearwood landed a job as the receptionist for Mary Tyler
Moore’s MTM Records and it was there that she met the president
of Big Machine Records. She started singing demos and earned a reputation
for her solid work ethic, engaging personality and phenomenal voice.
Songwriter Kent Blazy frequently used Trisha on his demos and it
was in his attic studio that she first met Garth Brooks and sang
a duet demo with him.
 Shortly
thereafter, Yearwood landed a deal with MCA Records and moved to
Nashville. She had been in Nashville for five years when she received
a song called She’s In Love With The Boy from producer Garth
Fundis. Year-wood recorded the song and it topped the Billboard
country singles chart in August 1991 making her an instant star.
Her
self-titled debut album has been certified double platinum and of
the 10 albums that followed, all have been certified gold and six
have been certified platinum. Three more singles from the album,
such as Like We Never Had a Broken Heart, That’s What I Like
About You, and The Woman Before Me, all went Top Ten, and Trisha
toured as Garth Brooks’ opening act, gaining immense exposure.
As a result, she became the first female country singer ever to
sell a million copies of her debut album,
and later on, two million.
Songbook:
A Collection of Hits has achieved quadruple platinum status. Trisha
has won three Grammy Awards including Best Country Female Vocal
Performance for How Do I Live. She’s a two-time winner of
the Country Music Association’s Female Vocalist Award, and
has also netted the Academy of Country Music’s Top Female
Vocalist Honor.
To see this leading lady up close and personal, call The Orleans
Box Office at 702-365-7075 or visit www.orleanscasino.com.
Show time is 8 PM and tickets are priced from $74.95 plus tax.
The
Orleans Showroom is an 827 seat venue offering theater style seating.
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