Before he was a star, Garth Brooks met and married his first wife, Sandy Mahl. The college sweethearts were married and had three daughters before they divorced in 2000.
According to Rick Mitchell's Garth Brooks: One of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House (via Tulsa World), Brooks and Mahl had planned to wait a few years before having their first child, but, while "practicing" on vacation in Maine, Mahl became pregnant with their eldest. Taylor Mayne Pearl Brooks, named after James Taylor, Minnie Pearl, and the state where she was conceived, was born in a natural birth at Nashville's Baptist Hospital on July 8, 1992.
As noted by Biography, August Anna came almost two years later in 1994, and the youngest, Allie Colleen, was born in 1996. "I feel God put me down here to play music, but it's very evident to see because of the baby, God put me down here to be a father also," Brooks once told Billboard, according to an excerpt from Mitchell's book.
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