Toby Keith's Daughter Reveals 'Incredibly Normal' Childhood Despite Father's Country Stardom

Krystal Keith shares how her life remained unaffected despite Toby Keith's meteoric rise to fame in the country music industry.

growing up with the late country music icon.

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Toby Keith's Daughter Reveals 'Incredibly Normal' Childhood Despite Father's Country Stardom

Toby Keith may have been a country music superstar, but to his daughter Krystal Keith, he was simply the guy who fixed the plumbing.

Growing up in the Keith household was far from ordinary, despite Toby's instant country music star status with his '93 breakout hit, "Should've Been a Cowboy." Yet, Krystal's childhood remained remarkably grounded.

Toby Keith's Daughter Reveals 'Incredibly Normal' Childhood Despite Father's Country Stardom

Curious outsiders, eager to pry into Krystal's life, would ask what her father did for a living. To their astonishment, Krystal would often reply that her dad had a regular 9-to-5 job.

"I think I thought everybody's dad had a job like my dad … he might as well have been a plumber," Krystal exclusively told Fox News Digital. "In fact, that's what I told people he did. Later on in life, when people would find out who he was, and then they would come ask me a question I knew they knew the answer, they'd be like, ‘What does your dad do for a living?’ I'd be like, 'He's a plumber.'"

Toby Keith's Daughter Reveals 'Incredibly Normal' Childhood Despite Father's Country Stardom

And they'd be like, 'What's his name?' And it was always Mark."

When friends remained unconvinced, Krystal had a backup plan, invoking the name of a country music legend.

Toby Keith's Daughter Reveals 'Incredibly Normal' Childhood Despite Father's Country Stardom

"My second favorite thing was to say Garth Brooks, because they were already, like, they knew he was a singer," she said. "They were expecting Toby Keith, and I'd be like, 'My dad's Garth Brooks!'"

"I never wanted to give them what they expected."

Toby Keith's Daughter Reveals 'Incredibly Normal' Childhood Despite Father's Country Stardom

Despite Toby's fame, Krystal's childhood remained unfazed.

"We had an incredibly normal childhood, so it wasn't like our lives changed drastically," she said. "It was just, the things we were able to afford became a little bit different. My mom wasn't stressing about, you know, where the light bill was getting paid. I mean, that was something we never knew anything about from the time we lived in a trailer."

Toby Keith's Daughter Reveals 'Incredibly Normal' Childhood Despite Father's Country Stardom

"We could have been rich then. I didn't know the difference. We never wanted for anything … we always had everything we needed."

Krystal, her sister, Shelley, and brother Stelen experienced a gradual shift in their lifestyle, affording them the opportunity to travel and participate in their father's shows.

Toby Keith's Daughter Reveals 'Incredibly Normal' Childhood Despite Father's Country Stardom

"He stayed the same throughout," Krystal said. "It was really just the people around us changed and the way they treated us and the way they talked to us about him changed."

"And that's what kind of, as a child, showed me that, oh, this isn't normal; he's not like everyone else's dad."

Toby Keith's Daughter Reveals 'Incredibly Normal' Childhood Despite Father's Country Stardom

When Krystal embarked on her own musical journey, her father offered sage advice in his inimitable "Toby Keith" way.

"He never said, 'Don't do this or don't do that.' He was like, 'You can do whatever you want to do, but here's my advice on it, and you can take it or leave it,'" Krystal remembered. "And he really let me carve my own path and … he rarely was like, 'Hey, I've got this idea for you.' He just always let me come to my own ideas and lead things the way I wanted to lead them."

Toby Keith's Daughter Reveals 'Incredibly Normal' Childhood Despite Father's Country Stardom

"When I got stuck, or I had, kind of needed some advice or needed a push, I would go in and be like, ‘Hey, what do you think about this song?' and he would give me his advice then."

On Wednesday, Krystal performed alongside a star-studded roster in the television special "Toby Keith: American Idol" – a tribute to the late country icon who died Feb. 5 after a lengthy battle with cancer.

New "American Idol" host Carrie Underwood covered Keith's "A Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action" while Lainey Wilson covered "Beer For My Horses" after riding into the Bridgestone Arena in downtown Nashville on a horse.

Giving back to the community was paramount for Toby, a longtime advocate for pediatric cancer research and advocacy through the Toby Keith Foundation. The event supported the Toby Keith Foundation's OK Kids Korral, a center for children and their families receiving cancer treatment, which provides day and night lodging at no cost.

Krystal felt the pressure of singing at her father's tribute show but knew he was watching down on her.

"We were handed a legacy that nobody can touch," Krystal said. "He really just has this incredible legacy that he has left behind. Then we as a family just said, ‘Hey, this is on our shoulders. This is our duty to carry this out.’ He was really concerned with … if he didn't make it through cancer, who's going to carry this torch?"

She added, "It's really a special place, and we need it to continue. Our community needs it. Kids from across the nation come to be treated. It's an incredible hospital. It means a lot to our whole family."

Toby Keith's legacy extends far beyond his music; it encompasses a unwavering commitment to his family and to making a positive