Patricia Yearwood (September 19, 1964) is an American singer, actress, author, and television personality. Her rise to fame derived from her 1991 debut single “She’s in Love with the Boy,” which became a number one hit on the Billboard country singles chart. Its corresponding self-titled debut album sold over two million copies. Yearwood spent several years on hiatus from her own musical career to focus on other projects She published three successful cookbooks and in 2012, she began a culinary television series on the Food Network that later won a Daytime Emmy Award.