Profession: Singer/ Songwriter

The man with the cowboy hat who has been making some memorable country numbers, Garth Brroks was born in Oklahoma. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and peaked at Number 2 in the US country album chart while climbing to number 13 on the Billboard 200 album chart. Brooks’ integration of rock elements into his recordings and live performances earned him immense popularity.

The athlete-singer

As a child, Grath Brook was more into athletics and sports than anything else. He offten sang in casual family settings but his primary focus was athletics. In high school, he played football and baseball and ran track and field. He received a track scholarship to Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, where he competed in the javelin and was a member of Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity.  Thanks to his college roommate who played the guitar, got him interested into music. Later that year he started playing for clubs and bars and decided to take up music as a career option.

Music all the way

Garth Brooks first got his break when entertainment attorney Rod Phelps drove all the way just to listen to him and decided to give the chance. To date, Garth Brooks has released a total of 12 studio albums, six of which achieved diamond status in the U.S. He has won two Grammy awards, 15 American Music Awards, 11 CMA Awards, and numerous others. Emerging on the scene and becoming a near immediate success, Brooks has sold nearly 150 million albums worldwide.

The Recording Industry Association of America lists Brooks as the top selling solo artist of the 1900s. Since Elvis Presley’s early records were not closely tracked, this record may actually be number two instead of number one.

The 90’s were a rage when it came to country music, thanks Garth Brooks and his amazing songs. Tipped as the best country artist across the globe, he has outsold almost all the artists in this genre complete with his live concerts. From ‘The Dance’ to ‘Much Too Young,’ this is our list of the Top 10 Garth Brooks Songs that we feel best defines his amazing career in music. And not to forget the best of his works, if Tomorrow Never Comes.

Records and the money

He is probably the only solo artist in history to have sold 10 million or more copies of 4 individual albums, and has publicly announced that he wants to be the first artist to sell 100 million albums. His last album, Scarecrow, came out 13 November 2001.

When his 1991 album ‘Ropin’ the Wind’ topped the Billboard pop chart, it became the first country album ever to do so.

During his long hiatus, he sold his music exclusively through WalMart after splitting with Capitol Records back in June 2005. The first item coming is a boxed set entitled ‘The Limited Series,’ which released on November 25, 2005.

His very first single, ‘Much Too Young,’ was a country top 10 success and the albums that were revealed consecutively spent a minimum of 23 weeks as number one on the Billboard country music chart. His second album reached number 3 on the pop chart, and eventually became Brooks’s highest-selling album, with domestic shipments of 17 million.

Brooks along with his music was great a concert entertainer. He performed five sold out concerts over two days at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California on January 25 and 26, 2008. In total 400,000 tickets were sold for about €28,600,000. He went on to become the first person to play 5 sold out shows at Croke Park.

On November 5, 2007, Brooks was again named the best selling solo artist in US history, surpassing Presley after audited sales of 123 million were announced.

As of January 2012, Brooks officially passed the Beatles as the top-selling act of the past 20 years, moving 68.5 million units worldwide, almost 5 million more than the Beatles.

His achievements

2 Grammy Awards (total of 14 nominations)

17 American Music Awards (including “Artist of the ’90s” won in 2000)

11 Country Music Association Awards

18 Academy of Country Music Awards

5 World Music Awards

10 People’s Choice Awards

24 Billboard Music Awards

Charity time

He played 5 sold out shows in 2 days at the Staples Center in Los Angeles to raise money for victims of the recent wildfires and to fund future firefighting efforts.

Brooks, along with his wife Trisha Yearwood, has always been an ardent supporter of Habitat for Humanity’s work over the years, including the annual Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project.

The both of them have worked alongside the Carters in the United States and in Haiti, lending their time and voices to help build safe, decent and affordable homes. Brooks’ Teammates for Kids Foundation provided more than $1 million in funding to Habitat to help build homes in Thailand following the Asian tsunami.

Divorce that cost him a fortune

Garth got married to his high school sweetheart in the year 1986 but the marriage was not deemed to last forever as the both decided to part ways in the year 2000 which went down as the costliest divorce of all times which made him pay around $125 million.

He later married his fellow artist Trisha Yearwood in the year 2005. Although the couple mostly stays in Oklahoma, Garth Brooks has got sprawling mansions in Florida, California, Nasville and Tennessee.

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Profession/Career: American Football player, Football coach, Commentator, Actor, Businessperson

James William “Jimmy” Johnson popularly known as Jimmy Johnson is a well established American Football coach and former football player. Started his career serving Oklahoma State University then moved on to the University of Miami followed by National Football League. At present, he is involved in Fox NFL Sunday, a pregame show.

Early life:

Jimmy was born on July 16th, 1943 in Port Arthur, Texas. He completed his graduation from Thomas Jefferson High School and took his degree from the University of Arkansas. In this university, he became a part of local football team, which included various high personalities from this background such as Ken Hatfield, Jim Lindsey etc. This team included all the shining stars that became head coaches for the national team afterwards. He was entitled as Jimmy Jump Up during his football practices as he never used to stay down his legs on the ground and always used to jump around. His personal life is quite interesting. He got married to Linda Kay Cooper in 1963 and the couple together had two sons. They got separated in 1990. Again in 1999, he tied knot with Rhonda Rookmaaker.

Back to back shifting:

He started his journey in 1965 being an assistant coach at Louisiana University. Followed this position he planned to make a shift from this university to Memorial High School in Mississippi. In 1967, he was offered to train a team at Wichita State University. In 1970 he took a transition from assistant coach position to line coach at the University of Oklahoma. Here he got the opportunity to work for Chuck Fairbanks and Jim Dickey. In 1973, he served Arkansas University as defensive coordinator. He was in a hope that he would be declared as the next head coach after the retirement of Broyles but all the efforts were in vain. In 1977 and 1978 he served the University of Pittsburgh as the assistant coach. He used to train Hugh Green, Randy Holloway, etc. And came into contact with Dave Wannstedt. In 1979, Oklahoma State kept him busy for five seasons till 1983.

His journey with various teams:

• University of Miami: Replacing Miami’s former coach Howard Schnellenberger Johnson took the responsibility of the team in his hand. His initial start was really fantastic with his record of 8-5 on the very first season. He was there with the team for five years, giving them the record of 52-9 and won the national championship. During his reign he gave full freedom to his players where they were allowed to show their talent in each and every field. The team of Miami lost several games during his tenure and due to this various question was raised on his coaching capabilities. He was also chosen as the Hall of Fame for the University of Miami in 1996.
• Dallas Cowboys: In this he replaced Tom Landry and headed the team as its head coach. After joining this team he led the Dallas to the Championship league several times. He remained as the coach till 1993. He had written his name in the history of the NFL who led his team to Super bowl for consecutive two years, i.e. 1992 and 1993. He made several records during his tenure with Jerry Jones but finally they both decided to separate due to some clashes.
• Miami Dolphins:  in 1996 Jimmy after getting experienced as a TV analyst worked as a coach for Miami Dolphins replacing Don Shula. During the tenure of Don, Miami had a very low expectation year (1995) so they all were happy to find Johnson as his replacement.  But his winning percentage was only 55.3%, which was lower than Don Shula. In 1999, he gave his resignation letter from Miami but after one day he again took back that position.

Worked as TV Analyst:

His interest towards analyzing each and every minute detail of the game took him to pursue his further career in the Television Industry. After resigning from Dolphins he started working as a TV analyst for the FOX Sports channel. At present he is engaged in Fox NFL Sunday as on-air member. On the Fox Channel he was seen as a host along with Chris Rose in the Bowl Championship Series. He also worked as guest actor in various shows such as The Shield, Johnson wreckers and also in the movie The Waterboy. Johnson was the big time fan of Survivor: Nicaragua show earlier so he gave the auditions for its new season and got selected.  This was its twenty-first edition in late 2010 of which he became the part. But unfortunately he was voted out on its eighth day and got 18^th rank overall.

Endorsements, property and his assets:

Jimmy currently resides in Islamorada in The Florida Keys. He has a quiet spacious apartment there in the city with all the luxurious facilities. He has made several endorsements with different brands which includes Procter & Gamble. He also made his appearance in various advertisements such as ExtenZe, male enhancement pills. He is the owner of the restaurant called Three Rings which was established after being awarded for the three championships. He was having one restaurant in Oklahoma also but now it is no more. He has one fishing boat which was also named as Three Rings. This is not enough about his property. His property includes bars and clubs in Key Largo, Florida

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Career/Profession: Actor, Drummer

William Gary Busey shortly called as Gary Busey is an acclaimed American actor and prominent stage artist. The fame he has got is all due to his talent and skills which led him to pursue his profession as an actor. All the efforts and endeavors, he has put is shown in various well known films such as The Firm, Lost highway, Point Break, The Buddy Holly Story etc. These movies helped him to achieve numerous awards such as Academy Awards for best acting, etc. He had some time portrayed his image as a rock icon too.

Early Life:

He is the son of Delmer Lloyd Busey and Sadie Virginia who was born on June 29, 1944. He took birth in Goose Creek in Texas. His father was a design manager and mother was a homemaker. He grew up in Oklahoma and completed his schooling from Nathan Hale High School in 1962. He attended Pittsburg State University in Kansas, where he was a football scholar. He also used to perform in the band as a drummer with Willie Nelson and was passionate about riding bulls. But due to a knee injury he had to drop his career as a footballer and moved on to pursue his profession in acting. He then got transferred to Oklahoma State University, where he dropped his studies and joined acting.

Drumming As his Passion:

He firstly built his image in the industry as a drummer who used to perform for ‘Rubber Band’. Then he was found playing drums on Leon Russell albums where he was named as Teddy Jack Eddy and also Sprunk. These are the names of the character he played in his show ‘The Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting’ and which used to be telecasted on KTUL station. This show helped him build his identity as a belligerent American hero. After that, he merged with the band called ‘Carp’ whose first album ‘Epic Record’ was released in 1969.

Transition from Local shows to Movies:

He began his career as an actor in 1970’s and it was going very smooth and slow till 1975. He got some small roles in local TV shows and low budgeted movies. In 1974, he was fortunate enough to get high budgeted action movie ‘Thunderbolt and Lightfoot’. In 1975 he started with ‘Gunsmoke’ series as Harvey Darley. In 1976, he was hired by Jon Peters and Barbra Streisand in the remake of ‘A Star is born’ to play a role of Bobby Ritchie. He and his acting were appreciated by the whole crew of the movie. In 1978, he starred in ‘The Buddy Holly Story’ as rock icon Buddy Holly and was supported by Sartain. His performance was acclaimed all over the country. He also changed the lyrics of ‘Well All Right’ song to ‘We’re gonna love Teddy Jack’ to maintain his identity as Teddy Jack Eddy. He also starred in ‘Straight time’ drama and ‘Big Wednesday’ in the same year.

Back to Back Performance:

In 1980’s, back to back performance in various acclaimed movies was observed. Starting with Barbarosa in 1982, the Comedies D.C Cab in 1983, Silver Bullet in 1985 followed by Insignificance in the same year. Lethal Weapon, action as well as a comedy movie released in 1987 added more stars to his success. In the 1990’s he got some supporting roles which are still seemed to be the best one in several movies such as Predator in 1990, Point Break in 1991, Under siege in 1992. He also maintained his prolific character by performing in movies such as ‘The Firm’ and ‘Rookie of the Year’ in 1993, ‘Black Sheep’ in 1996 or ‘Lost Highway’ in 1997 etc. In 2002, he gave his voice in ‘Grand Theft Auto: Vice City’. In 2008, he joined ‘Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew’. He also appeared in Celebrity Apprentice 4 and Celebrity Apprentice 6.

Personal Life:

Gary Busey had a very complicated love life. He was married to Judy Helkenberg in 1971. They together had one son named William Jacob Jake Busey. But unfortunately they did not manage to carry on this relationship and got divorced when their son was nineteen years old. He also had one daughter named Alectra from the pre-marital affair.  In 2000, he was criminally charged and arrested and this incident separated him from Tiani Warden, his second wife. In 2009, it came to know that he had an affair with Steffanie Sampson and they were expecting their child. In 2010, she gave birth to a son called Luke Sampson Busey.

Big Break due to accident:

In 1988, his success chart dropped due to a fatal motorcycle accident. He got injured, in which his skull got fractured because of not wearing helmet. Doctors were in doubt that he may suffer from brain damage. In 1995, he was hospitalized because of his drug addiction and its overdose.

Famous quotes:

• There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
• If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
• It’s a very strange silence that I’m living in right now. It’s a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don’t live on this earth.
• I love, love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It’s just great. It’s the most enduring element we have is love.

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