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Toby Keith's Early life and career
Toby Keith was born in Clinton, Oklahoma. His
family moved to Moore, Oklahoma (a suburb of Oklahoma City) when
Keith was young. His grandmother owned a supper club and Keith
became interested in the musicians who came there to play. He
got his first guitar at the age of 8. Keith attended Moore High
School where he played on the football team.
Keith graduated from Moore High School and, in 1979,
went to work as a derrick hand in the booming oil fields of Oklahoma.
He worked his way up to become an operation manager. At the age
of 20, he formed the Easy Money band and they played local bars
as he continued to work in the oil industry. At times, he would
have to leave in the middle of a gig if he was paged to work in
the oil field.
In 1982, the oil industry in Oklahoma began a rapid
decline and Keith soon found himself unemployed. He fell back
on his football training and played defensive end with the semi-pro
Oklahoma City Drillers while continuing to perform with his band.
(The Drillers were an unofficial farm club of the USFL's Oklahoma
Outlaws; Keith tried out for the Outlaws but did not make the
team.) After two years with the Drillers, Keith decided to try
music full time. His family and friends were doubtful he would
succeed, but in 1984, Easy Money began playing the honky tonk
circuit in Oklahoma and Texas. The band cut a single titled Blue
Moon and the song received some airplay on local radio stations
in Oklahoma.
Entertainment career
Toby KeithIn 1993, Keith went to Nashville, Tennessee. He distributed
copies of a demo tape the band had made to the many record companies
in the city. There was no interest by any of the record labels
and Keith returned home feeling depressed. Keith had promised
himself to have a recording contract by the time he was 30 years
old or give up on music as a career. He had already passed that
age without any prospects for a recording contract.
Fortunately for Keith, a fan of his, who was a flight
attendant, gave a copy of Keith's demo tape to Harold Shedd, a
Mercury Records executive, while he was traveling on a flight
she was working. Shedd liked what he heard, went to see Keith
perform live and then signed him to a recording contract with
Mercury. His debut single, "Should've Been a Cowboy"
(1993), went to number 1 on the Billboard country singles chart,
and his self-titled debut album was certified platinum. Other
hit singles included "A Little Less Talk And A Lot More Action"
and "Wish I Didn't Know Then."
Keith moved briefly to Polydor Records and released
his next two albums Boomtown (1994) and Blue Moon (1996). The
albums went gold and platinum respectively. In 1996, Keith was
also featured on the Beach Boys' now out-of-print 1996 album "Stars
and Stripes Vol. 1" performing a cover of their 1963 hit
"Be True to Your School" with the Beach Boys themselves
providing the harmonies and backing vocals.
Polydor folded and Keith moved back to Mercury Records,
now called Mercury Nashville, and released his fourth album, Dream
Walkin' (1997). Sting (Gordon Sumner) is featured on Dream Walkin'
as additional vocals on a cover of Sting's song "I'm So Happy
I Can't Stop Crying."
Keith began work on his next album How Do You Like
Me Now (1999) at Mercury but purchased the rights to the album
and moved to Dreamworks Nashville because of creative differences
with Mercury. The title song "How Do You Like Me Now"
was a number 1 single for 5 weeks and the album went double platinum.
Keith also began doing a series of television advertisements
for Telecom USA for their discount long distance telephone service
10-10-220. Because of the ads and his latest hit album, Keith
became a superstar and household name.
Keith was the subject of the January 2005 issue
of Playboy Magazine's Playboy Interview. In 2005, Keith toured
with rock guitarist Ted Nugent, whom Keith met in Iraq while they
were both performing in USO-sponsored shows for the coalition
troops.
Personal convictions and controversy
On March 24, 2001, Keith’s father, H.K. Covel, was killed
in a car accident. That event and the September 11, 2001 attacks
prompted Keith to write the song "Courtesy of the Red, White
and Blue (The Angry American)," a song about his father’s
patriotism and faith in the USA. At first, Keith refused to record
the song and only sang it live at his concerts for military personnel.
The reaction was so strong that the Commandant of the Marine Corps
James L. Jones told Keith it was his duty to record the song.
As the lead single from the album Unleashed (2002), "Courtesy
of the Red, White and Blue" peaked at number 1 over the weekend
of July 4. The album spent 65 weeks on the top-10 Billboard Country
Albums chart.
ABC invited Keith to sing "Courtesy of the
Red, White and Blue" on a patriotic special it was producing.
However, the host of the show, newsman Peter Jennings, requested
Keith soften the lyrics of the song or choose another song to
sing. Keith refused both requests and did not appear on the special.
The rift gave the song a considerable amount of publicity, which
led to many national interviews and public performances of the
song.
Keith also had a public feud with the Dixie Chicks
over the song, as well as comments they made from the stage about
President George W. Bush. The lead singer of the Dixie Chicks,
Natalie Maines, publicly stated that the song was "ignorant,
and it makes country music sound ignorant." Keith defeated
the Dixie Chicks to win Entertainer of The Year from the Academy
of Country Music (2002).
Keith considers himself "a conservative Democrat
who is sometimes embarrassed for his party." He endorsed
the re-election of President George W. Bush in 2004 and performed
at a Dallas rally on the night before the election. Keith also
endorsed Democrat Dan Boren in his successful run in Oklahoma's
2nd congressional district and is good friends with Democratic
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson.
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Toby Keith CD's
Toby Keith (album) (1993) #99 US, US Sales: 1,000,000
(Platinum)
Boomtown (1994) #46 US, US Sales: 500,000 (Gold)
Christmas To Christmas (1995)
Blue Moon (1996) #51 US, US Sales: 1,000,000 (Platinum)
Dream Walkin' (1997) #107 US, US Sales: 500,000 (Gold)
Greatest Hits Volume 1 (1998) #61 US, US Sales: 2,000,000 (3x
Platinum)
How Do You Like Me Now (1999) #56 US, US Sales: 1,000,000 (2x
Platinum)
Pull My Chain (2001) #9 US, US Sales: 2,000,000 (3x Platinum)
Unleashed (2002) #1 US, US Sales: 4,000,000 (5x Platinum)
20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection... (2003) #45
US, US Sales: 500,000 (Gold)
Shock'n Y'all (2003) #1 US, US Sales: 4,000,000 (5x PLatinum)
Greatest Hits Volume 2 (2004) #3 US, US Sales: 2,000,000 (3x Platinum)
Honkytonk University (2005) #2 US (Platinum)
White Trash with Money (April 11, 2006)
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