Toby Keith

Toby Keith, who died of stomach cancer on Feb. 5 at 62, signed his first record deal in 1993.

- Olivia B. Waxman

But he became better known outside the country-music orbit later, when he released "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)" in 2002. Keith wrote the song in 20 minutes on a scrap of pape