Toby Keith Lyrics

Toby Keith Info:

Birth name:
Toby Keith Covel

Born:
July 8, 1961

Died:
February 5, 2024 (at age of 62)

Born:
Clinton, Oklahoma, United States

From:
Nashville, Tennessee

Height:
6' 3" (1.90 m)

Spouse:
Tricia Lucus (m. 1984)

Children:
Krystal Keith Covel, Stelen Keith Covel, Shelley Covel Rowland

Education:
Moore High School

Genres:
Country

Occupations:
Singer-songwriter, record producer, actor

Instruments:
Vocals, guitar

Years active:
1993-present

Associated acts:
Scotty Emerick
Bobby Pinson
Krystal Keith

Toby Keith Quotes:
Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

Everybody should have their own thing, and if he don't want to be a role model, that should be up to him. In the right situations, I can try to help and be a role model, but I'm still gonna speak my mind, and if that affects the role-model deal, then too bad.

I have drawn a very close bond to all the military people.

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

I was raised in bars. My grandmother had one, and when I was 12 years old I'd go stay with her and that's where I got to watch her band play - she had a seven- or eight-piece band, and I would sit in the kitchen and peek through the door. I was kind of a 12-year-old bottle washer.

I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys.

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.

It's that dark cloud, the glass half empty on everything you do. It just becomes too much for me. So I unplugged myself.

My deal will always be one solo performance-nominated or not. Not some thrown together rock tribute.

My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, and started trying to write songs as a teenager.

We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town.

Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on.

When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few days from closing their doors. I was on my last leg.

You know, I'm pro-troops, but I'm not pro-war.

Toby Keith Awards

2005
CMA Music Video of the Year

2004
CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards Video Collaboration of the Year
CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards Video Director of the Year
CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards Video of the Year

2003
Academy of Country Music Album of the Year
Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year
Academy of Country Music Top Male Vocalist
Academy of Country Music Video of the Year
CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards Cocky Video of the Year
CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards Male Video of the Year
CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards Video of the Year

2002
CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards "LOL" (Laugh Out Loud) Video of the Year

2001
CMA Male Vocalist of the Year