Country Superstar Trisha Yearwood Has Cooked Up a Massive Net Worth
Trisha Yearwood
Country superstar Trisha Yearwood has amassed quite the net worth since the release of her self-titled debut album in 1991, but her wealth comes from more than just her music (although that's a big, big part of it). She's also built a personal brand that over the years has included the Trisha Yearwood Pet Collection, four cookbooks, a dinnerware collection with Williams Sonoma, a furniture collection with Klaussner and a TV show with the Food Network.
"I always was open to opportunity and when it came, I tried to figure out if it was the right thing for me,” Yearwood told Forbes of her entrepreneurial endeavors. “I knew I wanted to do music and I did just music for a long time, but along the way I had other opportunities because of music.”
Keep reading for more about how Yearwood created an empire and what she earns from it.
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How did Trisha Yearwood get her start?
Trisha Yearwood was born Patricia Lynn Yearwood on Sept. 19, 1964 in Monticello, Georgia. Raised by a banker father and schoolteacher mother who supported Yearwood's musical aspirations from a young age, the Grammy-winning artist left her hometown to pursue music in Nashville in 1985.
"When I was a kid and in high school thinking about going to college, I believed that if I wanted to sing country music, I needed to be in the city where that music was being made," she once told The Scene. "So moving to Nashville was something that I felt I had to do. I feel like it's still the place where dreams come true."
She wasn't wrong. Although she started out working as a receptionist for MTM records, Yearwood was eventually discovered by Beth Nielsen Chapman, who heard her perform at the famous Bluebird Cafe and helped her secure a recording contract with MCA Nashville Records.
In 1991, Yearwood released her self-titled album and her debut single, "She's in Love with the Boy,' became a huge hit, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard country singles chart. Her career had officially taken off.
What is Trisha Yearwood's net worth in 2024?
Trisha Yearwood's net worth in 2024 is $400 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. However, that figure represents a combined net worth with her husband, fellow country icon Garth Brooks, and the outlet estimates that at least $300 million of that net worth is attributable to Garth. Still, her $100 million contribution to the family pot is nothing to sneeze at, and it's the result of her hard work as a musician, entrepreneur, author and television personality.
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How many albums has Trisha Yearwood put out?
Yearwood has released 15 studio albums and nine compilation albums over the course of her three-decade-plus (and counting!) career.
How many Grammys does Trisha Yearwood have?
Yearwood has won a bunch of trophies over the years, including three Grammys, three awards from the Academy of Country Music and three awards from the Country Music Association. On the Grammys front, she took home the following:
Country Collaboration With Vocals (1995) — "I Fall to Pieces" with Aaron Neville
Country Collaboration Wtih Vocals (1998) — "In Another's Eyes" with Garth Brooks
Female Country Vocal Performance (1998) — "How Do I Live"
Does Trisha Yearwood still have her Food Network show?
Yearwood's Food Network program, Trisha's Southern Kitchen, a cooking show that featured her southern-inspired meals, ran from April 14, 2012 to Jan. 29, 2022, picking up a Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Culinary Program along the way.
"I'm pretty controlling," Yearwood once
of how hands-on she was on her show. "I'm a Virgo, so by nature I'm in the middle of everything I do, but I like that. I think it's important, especially for this show, to maintain its authenticity, for it to really be what I want to do."
She went on to explain that authentic for her meant not operating like a classically-trained chef. "So simple things, like the first time I sifted flour on the show they had me doing it patting the bottom of this thing and it's going to take me two days to sift the flour. I'm like 'I use a $2 sifter from Walmart that you crank and it's done in two seconds. Oh, we can do that.' Simple things like what utensils you're going to use, how you would do it, what bowl you're going to put it in."
Although the show is no longer airing on Food Network, Yearwood has assured fans that she's not done with the project just yet.
“We’re not done with the show. There’ll be more Trisha’s Kitchen. We’re just working on kind of a 2.0 version,” she said on a Facebook Live in July 2023, adding that she expected a return in 2024. "We’re working on a new space for Trisha’s Kitchen moving forward, so … this is just closing one chapter to open another."
How many books has Trisha Yearwood written?
Trisha Yearwood has published four cookbooks, all of which share a mix of recipes, personal stories and family traditions. They are:
Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen: Recipes from My Family to Yours (2008)
Cooking with Trisha Yearwood: Stories and Recipes to Share with Family and Friends (2010)
Trisha's Table: My Feel-Good Favorites for a Balanced Life (2015)
Trisha's Southern Kitchen: Comfort Food Cookbook (2019)
What charitable work does Trisha Yearwood do?
Yearwood makes a point of giving back, through charitable contributions to organizations like Habitat for Humanity, which builds affordable housing for low-income families, and the Susan G. Komen Foundation, which supports breast cancer research and awareness.
In fact, Yearwood made history at the 2024 CMT Awards when she became the first-ever artist to receive the ceremony's new June Carter Cash Humanitarian Award for the charitable work that she does. “My hope is that we can all learn a little bit from June Carter Cash’s legacy, and be a little bit more real, be a little bit more vulnerable, be a little bit less about 'me,' and a little bit more about 'us,'" she said in her speech.
She wrapped her acceptance by saying what the award really means to her. "This is not one of those, ‘Oh look what I can do. Look what I accomplished,'" she said. "I really look at this as a challenge and a calling just to be better."
