Toby Keith's 3 Children: All About Shelley, Krystal and Stelen

Mar. 15, 2025

The “Red Solo Cup” singer was a father to three children with his wife, Tricia Lucus. The singer adopted Tricia’s first daughter, Shelley, after the two wed in 1984. The pair then welcomed their first child together, Krystal, in September 1985. Their third child, a son named Stelen, was born in April 1997.

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Shelley Covel Rowland,44

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Krystal Keith, 39

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Krystal followed in her father’s footsteps, pursuing a career in music. She got her start when her dad featured her on his 2004 song “Mockingbird,” which they performed together at the 38th Annual CMA Awards the same year.

Krystal went on to make her own music, putting out an album,Whiskey & Lace, in 2013. The record included her hit song “Daddy Dance with Me,” which she performed for her dad for the first time at her 2010 wedding to Andrew Sandubrae.

“I wrote it for my father-daughter dance at my own wedding, and we just did the video,” she told Nashville Gab in 2013. “It was an amazing experience.”

After her father’s death, Krystalposted a touching tributeto him on herInstagram, writing that she will “forever honor him.”

“I am shattered. As great as he was in his career, he was so much greater as a dad and a husband and a Pop Pop. He was my hero,” she wrote in the caption.

She added that she was grateful for their shared time together and all the memories they made since the birth of her two kids.

“I am so lucky to have had him and so grateful he got to walk me down the aisle and meet my babies. That I have years of memories traveling the world as a family,” she wrote. “I am blessed that I got to spend years traveling on the road and singing on stage with him. That I have mountains of video footage and endless tracks of music to watch him on and hear his voice with.”

In August 2024, Krystal told PEOPLE that she and her daughters listen to her dad’s music “constantly” after taking a cue from the late Glen Campbell’s daughter, Ashley.

“She mentioned that she felt lucky to have his body of work and that she would be at a store and his voice would randomly come on the radio, and that she had all these songs and these lyrics and interviews and things she could look back to, and how grateful she was of that,” Krystal said. “I thought, ‘That’s a great way to look at it.’ Not everybody has that. I try to hold onto the gratitude there.”

Stelen Keith Covel, 27

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“Tell me where I get it from. Man they always wonder who, then they meet my pops and tell him Stelen’s just another you,” he wrote in anInstagram caption underneath an old photoof the two.

Like his sister, Stelen is also a graduate of the University of Oklahoma where he studied entrepreneurship and venture management, per hisLinkedIn.

Now, Stelen is the co-owner of multiple businesses, including 405 Burger Bar, Hollywood Corners, Tequila Chulos and Sellout Crowd. The latter is a sports reporting news network focusing on Oklahoma sports.

“Thank you to you all for the kind words and prayers regarding my dads announcement yesterday,” he wrote in the caption. “He’s a fighter, has done all the measures to mitigate it and needs rest to get back to his self.”

“You are the strongest man I have ever known. A fighter. A true titan of your industry. My guiding star. My coach. My hero,” he wrote in the captionunder a photo of him and his father swimmingin a pool when he was a boy.

In February 2025, Stelen and his wife Haley announced onInstagramthat they are expecting their first child.

source: people.com