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Friday, Nov. 16 for March show
Country superstar Trisha Yearwood is coming to the Jackson Community College Potter Center on March 16, 2008, and fans can get their tickets beginning at 9 a.m. Friday, Nov. 16.
Yearwood’s new CD, “Heaven, Heartache & The Power of Love,” will hit stores Tuesday, Nov. 13. The title track single from that CD is currently on the Billboard charts, along with her “Greatest Hits” album.
Yearwood has been a favorite on the country charts since her self-titled debut album was released in 1991. With hits like “She’s In Love With the Boy,” “How Do I Live,” and “I Would’ve Loved You Anyway,” Yearwood has one of the most majestic voices in Nashville. Listeners responded to her lustrous voice from the moment they first heard it 14 years ago. The native of Monticello, Georgia served her apprenticeship in Nashville as a student at Belmont University, a receptionist at MTM Records and as a “demo” singer for dozens of aspiring songwriters. Following her signing by MCA, Trisha burst on the radio airwaves with the frisky rocker “She’s In Love With the Boy” in the spring of 1991. The single roared to No. 1, beginning a string of what would become nine No. 1 hits, such as “That’s What I Like About You,” “The Woman Before Me,” “XXX’s and OOO’s,” “Thinkin’ About You” and “A Perfect Love.”
Trisha’s 13 albums to date include four Gold Record winners (The Sweetest Gift, Everybody Knows, Real Live Woman, Inside Out), four Platinum awardees (Hearts In Armor, The Song Remembers When, Thinkin’ About You, Where Your Road Leads), a Double Platinum seller (Trisha Yearwood) and a Quadruple Platinum blockbuster (Songbook (A Collection Of Hits)). She won back-to-back CMA awards as country’s Female Vocalist of the Year in 1997 and 1998. She has been honored with three Grammy Awards and dozens of other trophies. In 1999 Trisha Yearwood was inducted into the cast of the Grand Ole Opry.
In 2001 she was chosen to sing in Washington, D.C. by the National Endowment for the Arts at its “Songs of the Century” celebration, was honored by her hometown with the naming of “Trisha Yearwood Parkway” and was called to reprise her recurring role on the CBS-TV series “JAG.” Yearwood has contributed to strong-selling soundtracks of such films as “Hope Floats,” “Stuart Little,” “Thing Called Love” and “Honeymoon in Vegas,” as well as to a number of charity CDs. Known as a willing and genial collaborator, she has provided harmony vocals to dozens of other artists’ recordings, including sessions for Reba McEntire, Rodney Crowell, Brooks & Dunn, Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Vince Gill, Pam Tillis and Patty Loveless. And a couple duets have led to Grammy awards - her pairing with Aaron Neville for “I Fall To Pieces” and with Garth Brooks for “In Another’s Eyes.” Outside of the country genre and the U.S., Yearwood has performed with Pavarotti for his War Children of Liberia benefit concert in Italy. She has also sung with Don Henley.
“Singing gives me such joy,” Yearwood says. “And it seems to give other people joy. It’s what I believe I am supposed to do."
Yearwood will perform at The Potter Center at 7 p.m. March 16, 2008. This concert is sponsored by A.G. Edwards & Sons’, member SIPC. Tickets for Trisha Yearwood are $58, $55 and $50 and may be purchased by calling the Potter Center Box Office at 517.796.8600, or online at www.jccmi.edu, under “Visitors” and “Events.”
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