question: The country music singer who recorded "The Dance" released his debut studio album on what date?
answer: April 12, 1989
context: Title: Life's a Dance
  Passage: Life's a Dance is the debut studio album of American country music singer John Michael Montgomery.  It features the singles "Life's a Dance", "Beer and Bones" and "I Love the Way You Love Me", which peaked at #4, #21, and #1, respectively, on the "Billboard" country charts between 1992 and 1993.  The album has been certified 3× Platinum by the RIAA for shipments of three million copies in the United States.
  Title: Garth Brooks (album)
  Passage: Garth Brooks is the debut studio album of American country music artist Garth Brooks, released on April 12, 1989 through Capitol Nashville.  It was both a critical and chart success, peaking at #13 on the "Billboard" 200 and at #2 on the Top Country Albums chart.  The album has been certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments over ten million copies.  This is Garth's only album to have a neotraditional country sound before developing a more crossover-friendly country-pop sound.
  Title: Billy Ray Cyrus discography
  Passage: Billy Ray Cyrus is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor and philanthropist, who helped make country music a worldwide phenomenon.  He has released 12 studio albums and 44 singles since 1992, and is best known for his number one single "Achy Breaky Heart", which became the first single ever to achieve triple Platinum status in Australia and was the best-selling single of 1992 in the same country.  Thanks to the video of the song, the linedance entered the mainstream, becoming a worldwide craze.  Cyrus, a multi-platinum selling recording artist, has scored a total of eight top-ten singles on the Billboard Country Songs chart.  His most successful album to date is the debut of "Some Gave All", which has been certified 9× multi-platinum in the United States and is the longest time spent by a debut artist at number one on the "Billboard" 200 (17 consecutive weeks) and most consecutive chart-topping weeks in the SoundScan era.  It is the only album (from any genre) in the SoundScan era to log 17 consecutive weeks at number one and is also the second-highest selling debut album by a male country artist after Garth Brooks'.  It ranked 43 weeks in the top 10, a total topped by only one country album in history, "Ropin' the Wind" by Garth Brooks.  "Some Gave All" was also the first debut album to enter at the number 1 in the Billboard Country Albums.  The album has also sold more than 20 million copies worldwide and is the best-selling debut album of all time for a solo male artist. " Some Gave All" was also the best-selling album of 1992 in the US with 4,832,000 copies.  In his career, he has released 35 charted singles, of which 16 have charted in the top 40.
  Title: Raised by a Good Time
  Passage: "Raised by a Good Time" is a song co-written and recorded by Canadian country music singer Steven Lee Olsen.  It was released to digital retailers on November 10, 2014 through Sony Music Entertainment and Columbia Nashville as the lead single for his forthcoming debut studio album.  The song serves as Olsen's major-label debut as well as his first release in the American country market.  It reached the top 5 on the Canada Country chart and was certified Gold by Music Canada.
  Title: A Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action
  Passage: "A Little Less Talk And A Lot More Action" is a song written by Keith Hinton and Jimmy Alan Stewart, and recorded by American country music singer Hank Williams, Jr. for his 1992 album "Maverick".  One year later, the song was recorded by American country music singer Toby Keith and released in November as the third single from his self-titled debut album.  Keith's version peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart and peaked at number 25 on the Canadian "RPM" country tracks.
  Title: The Dance (song)
  Passage: "The Dance" is a song written and composed by Tony Arata, and recorded by American country music singer Garth Brooks as the tenth and final track from his self-titled debut album, from which it was also released as the album's fourth and final single in April 1990.  It is considered by many to be Brooks' signature song.  In a 2015 interview with Patrick Kielty of BBC Radio 2, Brooks credits the back to back success of both "The Dance" and its follow up "Friends In Low Places" for his phenomenal success.
  Title: Anything Goes (Randy Houser album)
  Passage: Anything Goes is the debut studio album from American country music singer Randy Houser.  It was released on November 18, 2008 (see 2008 in country music) on Universal South Records.  The album's lead-off single is its title track, which reached No. 16 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts.  Houser co-wrote all but three of the songs on the album.  "Boots On" was released in February 2009 as the second single, peaking at No. 2 on the same chart.
citations: The Dance (song) Garth Brooks (album)