Patricia Lynn Yearwood is an American country singer. She rose to fame with 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 continued with a series of major country hits during the early to mid-1990s, including "The Woman Before Me" (1991), "Walkaway Joe" (1992), "The Song Remembers When" (1993), "XXX's and OOO's " (1994), and "Believe Me Baby " (1996).