Toby Keith
Toby Keith
Toby Keith Covel, known professionally as Toby Keith, is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. Keith released his first four studio albums—1993's Toby Keith, 1994's Boomtown, 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's Dream Walkin', plus a Greatest Hits package for various divisions of Mercury Records before leaving Mercury in 1998. These albums all earned Gold or higher certification, and produced several chart singles, including his debut "Should've Been a Cowboy", which topped the country charts and was...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth8 July 1961
CityClinton, OK
CountryUnited States of America
Through the years, a lot of it is just being around some great people like my dad and his friends who come up with those things. I've just claimed them after I've heard them.
We went from being an independent to one of the biggest and best labels in town, and in the merger we lost all identity, ... We were the little dog that barked loud (and) grew up to be a big dog, and when we merged we were powerless.
We're going to be an independent, ... but smell, walk, talk, look and record like a major.
During the playoffs, they never allowed a point. By the end of the season, teams were coming to scout us and that was the third grade. But we would out-execute them. Our kids were talented enough, they were hard to stop.
Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,
You just try to give them a little piece of the United States, and tell them that we all support them and love them, no matter what they hear.
There are a couple of things that are really brought home from a female perspective. In the studio I sing hard, and she softened that up. On 'Crash Here Tonight' she said 'You have a rich baritone voice, and I think this song can be just as sexy as all get out. Let's keep it in this register. Let it be sassy and intimate.
It's that dark cloud, the glass half empty on everything you do. It just becomes too much for me. So I unplugged myself.
I've got three or four really mainstream double-platinum kind of artists that are kind of late in their deals, too, that have contacted us. They trust in the fact that I'm willing to stand up and fight for the rights of songwriters and artists.
None of the Nashville labels think I'm going to make it. But I feel very confident about my new label, because I'm signed as the first act. And as long as I continue to sell records, the label is going to be outstanding.
It's a pretty big undertaking with every business lesson I've ever learned in hand.
It was the most creative thing I've done in a decade.
I'm influenced by all kinds of music. I have a very diverse iPod. You never know if I've got it on shuffle. You never know what you are going to hear next. I like all genres.
I play golf with my shirttail out. I own a golf course because it's very, very close to my house, and I don't want to drive 45 minutes to the north side of Oklahoma City to play golf every day. I have race horses 'cause I love horses and it's my hobby.