YEARWOOD, TRISHA
(*1964)
YEARWOOD, TRISHA (b. Monticello, Ga., September 19, 1964) Yearwood is a talented new-country singer whose career was almost derailed by her being overhyped. A big hit single came right out of the gate, but Yearwood initially had difficulty following it up and her handlers seemed intent on molding her into a more mainstream pop chanteuse. She recovered her core country audience by the century's end, although she never crossed over into the kind of mainstream divadom that SHANIA TWAIN and FAITH…