The couple moved to Nashville in 1985 after Brooks's graduation with an advertising degree.

In 1986, he married Sandy Mahl, a woman he had once thrown out of a bar after a restroom altercation.

After earning an athletic scholarship to Oklahoma State University for his ability with the javelin, Brooks began singing in Stillwater clubs where he had worked as a bouncer. His mother, Colleen Carroll Brooks, had been a minor country singer in the 1950s who had recorded several unsuccessful albums for Capitol. Troyal Garth Brooks, born on February 7, 1962, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, had a strong interest in country music from childhood. Brooks combined his onstage identity as the modern country superstar with an offstage persona emphasizing country music's traditional values of family, patriotism, and devotion to one's fans. His stage performances, which were filled with many special effects such as fantastic lighting displays, explosions, and even a harness that allowed him to sing while swinging over his enthusiastic crowds, resembled the stadium rock extravaganzas of the 1970s. Prior to Brooks's third album, Ropin' the Wind, it was nearly impossible for a country artist to sell a million copies, and no country recording had ever premiered at the top of the pop charts. Between 19 he sold more than sixty million albums. From his first self-titled album in 1989, the Oklahoma singer achieved fameīeyond the traditional country listener base to achieve acceptance by a mass audience. Brooks was popular in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s with a blend of country, honky-tonk, and rock that signaled country's move into the mainstream of popular music. Garth Brooks, the best-selling recording artist of all time, symbolizes the evolution of 'new wave' country music in the late twentieth century.

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