Toby Keith biography, net worth, age, son, wife, tour

Toby Keith Covel (born July 8, 1961), known professionally as Toby Keith, is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer.

Toby 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 Top Ten singles, including his debut “Should’ve Been a Cowboy”, which topped the country charts and was the most-played country song of the 1990s.

The song has received three million spins since its release, according to Broadcast Music Incorporated.

Toby Keith’s early life

Keith was born in Clinton, Oklahoma, to Carolyn Joan (née Ross) and Hubert K. Covel, Jr. He has a sister and a brother. The family lived in Fort Smith, Arkansas, for a few years when Keith was in grade school, but moved to Moore, Oklahoma (a suburb of Oklahoma City), when he was still young.

Before the family moved to Moore, he visited his grandmother in Fort Smith during the summers. His grandmother owned Billie Garner’s Supper Club in Fort Smith, where Keith became interested in the musicians who came there to play. He did odd jobs around the supper club and started getting up on the bandstand to play with the band.

He got his first guitar at the age of eight. After the family moved to Moore, Keith attended Highland West Junior High and Moore High School, where he played defensive end on the football team.

Keith graduated from Moore High School and worked as a derrick hand in the oil fields. He worked his way up to become an operation manager. When Keith was 20, he and his friends Scott Webb, Keith Cory, David “Yogi” Vowell and Danny Smith, with a few others, formed the Easy Money Band, which played at local bars as he continued to work in the oil industry. At times, he would have to leave in the middle of a concert 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 United States Football League’s Oklahoma Outlaws; Keith tried out for the Outlaws but did not make the team.)

He then returned to focus once again on music. His family and friends were doubtful he would succeed, but, in 1984, Easy Money (various other band members included Mike Barnes, T.A. Brauer, and David Saylors) began playing the honky-tonk circuit in Oklahoma and Texas.

Toby Keith’s net worth

In 2005, Keith opened Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, as well as Syracuse, New York, and Tulsa, Oklahoma, and now also has restaurants in Thackerville, Oklahoma; Auburn Hills, Michigan; Kansas City; Las Vegas; Mesa, Arizona; Peoria, Arizona; St. Louis Park, Minnesota; Foxborough, Massachusetts; Cincinnati, Ohio; Newport News, Virginia; and Denver, Colorado. Keith does not actually own the new restaurants; the new restaurant is the first in a franchise under Scottsdale, Arizona-based Capri Restaurant Group Enterprises LLC, which purchased the master license agreement to build more Toby Keith restaurants nationwide. Capri Restaurant Group is owned by Frank Capri, who opened the restaurant in Mesa in the shopping center known as Mesa Riverview and is planning on opening multiple locations across the country.

In 2009, Capri Restaurant Group announced that it will open another “I Love this Bar & Grill” location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s South Side Works shopping and entertainment district.

In 2009, Keith also established a line of clothing, TK Steelman.

February 2010 marked the opening of Toby Keith‘s I Love This Bar & Grill in the Winstar World Casino, exit 1 on Interstate 35 in Oklahoma. Other locations opened in 2010 by the Capri Restaurant Group included those in Great Lakes Crossing in Auburn Hills, Michigan, and in the Shops at West End in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Both of which closed in 2015.

In 2011, Keith introduced a new drink named “Wild Shot”. At first it was only available in Mexico, but now is sold and served in America. It is a featured drink in his restaurant chain, I Love this Bar and Grill.

Keith’s music career and his various other business ventures have made him one of the wealthiest celebrities in the United States. The July 15, 2013, edition of Forbes magazine features Keith on the cover with the caption “Country Music’s $500 million man”.

The article titled “Cowboy Capitalist” by Zack O’Malley Greenburg also contains information regarding Keith’s earnings as a musician over the course of his career, such as earning $65 million in the past 12 months, which surpasses the earnings of even more well-known musicians such as Jay-Z and Beyoncé and that he hasn’t earned less than $48 million a year over the past 5 years. Keith has written at least one #1 country single over the past 20 years and the partnership between his own label, Show Dog-Universal, and Big Machine Records, which Keith also helped found in 2005.

Toby Keith’s wife

On March 24, 1984, Keith married Tricia Lucus. He is the father of three children—two daughters, Shelley Covel Rowland (born 1980, adopted by Keith in 1984) and Krystal “Krystal Keith” LaDawn Covel Sandubrae (born September 30, 1985; signed a contract with Show Dog-Universal in 2013), and one son (Stelen Keith Covel, born 1997). He also has four grandchildren.

Toby Keith’s tour

• Brooks and Dunn’s Neon Circus and Wild West Show 2001
  Unleashed Tour 2002 with Jamie O’Neal, Emerson Drive and Rascal Flatts (Select Dates)
• USO 2002–13 (11 tours, visiting 15 countries and 3 naval ships)
  Shock’N Y’all Tour 2003 with Blake Shelton
• Big Throwdown Tour 2004 with Lonestar and Gretchen Wilson with Sawyer Brown and Terri Clark
• Big Throwdown Tour II 2005 with Jo Dee Messina
• White Trash With Money Tour 2006
• Hookin’ Up and Hangin’ Out Tour 2007 with Miranda Lambert, Trace Adkins, Josh Gracin
• Big Dog Daddy Tour 2007
• Biggest and Baddest Tour 2008–09 with Montgomery Gentry and Trailer Choir
• America’s Toughest Tour 2009 with Trace Adkins Also Julianne Hough (Few Dates)
• Toby Keith’s American Ride Tour 2010 with Trace Adkins and James Otto
• Locked and Loaded Tour 2011 with Eric Church and JT Hodges
• Live in Overdrive Tour with Brantley Gilbert
• Hammer Down Tour 2013 with Kip Moore
• Hammer Down Under Tour 2014 With Kellie Pickler and Eli Young Band
• Shut Up and Hold On Tour 2014 With Colt Ford and Krystal Keith
• Good Times and Pick Up Lines Tour 2015 With Eli Young Band and Chris Janson
• Interstates and Tailgates Tour 2016 With Eric Paslay
• Should’ve Been A Cowboy XXV 2018

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