The 45th Kennedy Center Honors airs tonight, with George Clooney, U2, Gladys Knight, Amy Grant, and Tania León receiving recognition for their contributions to the arts. Before the ceremony begins, country superstar Trisha Yearwood sang the National Anthem in a performance that brought her husband Garth Brooks to tears.

Earlier, Trisha shared her gorgeous red carpet look from her appearance, but she took the stage in a different show-stopping silver sequins wrap dress.

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Who is Trisha Yearwood?

Trisha Yearwood is an American singer, actress, author, and television personality. She rose to fame in the early 1990s. Signed to MCA Nashville, she released her self-titled album in 1991. Its single She’s in Love with the Bay became a number-one hit on the Billboard country singles chart. She became the first female country singer to sell over a million copies of her debut album.

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Yearwood was born on September 19, 1964, in Monticello, Georgia, USA. She is the daughter of schoolteacher Gwendolyn Yearwood and local banker Jack Howard Yearwood. She earned an associate degree in business from Young Harris College. Later, she attended the University of Georgia for one semester before dropping out. In 1985, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee to enroll in Belmont College and pursue a degree in the music business.

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She married country singer Garth Brooks in 2005. Yearwood married her first husband, Chris Latham in 1987. The couple divorced in 1991. In 1994, she tied the knot with Robert Reynolds, a bassist for The Mavericks. The couple separated in 1999 after five years of marriage.

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Yearwood is known for Con Air (1997), For Love of the Game (1999), and JAG (1995). She has won three Grammy Awards including several other awards in her outstanding singing career. She has appeared on many television shows and performed in many popular films as a singer.

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In addition to being a singer, Yearwood is also a celebrity chef, running her own show Trisha’s Southern Kitchen since 2012. She has penned several cookbooks featuring her family recipes passed to her by her mother.