Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire, later known as the Queen of Country, nearly missed her Grand Ole Opry debut on the 17th of September 1977. A guard at the gate overlooked her name on the list of performers. Her parents and her older sister Alice had driven 1,400 miles round trip from Oklahoma to watch. Then a surprise appearance by Dolly Parton cut her set from two songs to one, "Invitation to the Blues." The whole performance lasted three minutes.
That evening gave little hint of what followed. McEntire, born on the 28th of March 1955, went on to place more than 100 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Twenty-five of them reached number one. How did a ranch kid training to be a schoolteacher get there? What did she insist on when record labels tried to steer her sound? And how did she carry on after a night in 1991 that took eight members of her band? The answers run through rodeo arenas, Broadway, and a television comedy that carried her first name.
McAlester, Oklahoma, is where McEntire was born, though she grew up on the family's cattle ranch in Chockie. She was the third of four children of Clark and Jacqueline McEntire. Rodeo ran in the family. Her grandfather John Wesley McEntire was a world-champion steer roper in 1934, and her father won the same title in 1957-1958 and 1961. Everyone helped with the cattle. The children did chores before and after school, including castrating bulls and giving them worm medicine.
Jacqueline McEntire had once hoped to sing country music herself. Instead she worked as a public-school teacher, a librarian and a secretary. She was tender with her children, while Clark found affection hard to show. In her autobiography, Reba recalled, "When we were growing up, I used to regret that Daddy never told us that he loved us." On the long drives to her father's rodeo dates, Jacqueline taught the children to sing in harmony.
In first grade, Reba sang "Away in a Manger" at an elementary-school Christmas pageant. In fifth grade she joined 4-H and won first place in the Junior Act Division with "My Sweet Little Alice Blue Gown." She also played basketball, ran track, learned piano and guitar, and trained as a barrel racer.
By high school the siblings had formed a trio called the Singing McEntires. In 1971 they released a single about their famous grandfather, "The Ballad of John McEntire," which a local label pressed in small numbers. A backing band joined them, later called the Kiowa High School Cowboy Band. They earned money playing bars and dance halls near Oklahoma City. "We were a bunch of kids barely in puberty who didn't get to bed until almost daylight after some of our shows," McEntire remembered. The group ended when her brother graduated, and Reba finished at Kiowa High School in 1973.
Southeastern Oklahoma State University came next. She majored in elementary education with a minor in music, finished her student teaching, and earned a bachelor's degree. In 1974 her father encouraged her to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City. Family friend and rodeo announcer Clem McSpadden helped her land the job. Country artist Red Steagall heard her there and was impressed.
That same week, Reba, her siblings and her mother joined Steagall at a hotel party. Reba sang Dolly Parton's "Joshua" without accompaniment. Jacqueline asked whether he could help all of her children get a recording contract. In early 1975 Steagall called from Nashville with his answer: "I can't take all three. But I could take Reba. She's got something a little different."
In March 1975, McEntire and her mother set out for Nashville to record a demonstration tape. Reba was unsure she wanted a professional career and kept inventing reasons for her mother to stop the car. Jacqueline noticed the fear and told her, "Now, Reba, let me tell you something. If you don't want to go to Nashville, we don't have to do this. But I'm living all my dreams through you." They drove on.
Glenn Keener of PolyGram/Mercury Records heard the demo and wanted to sign her. His label's Chicago headquarters told him he could add only one female performer, and he carried two tapes there. "He looked at the two tapes in his hand and handed 'em mine," McEntire told Entertainment Weekly. The contract was signed that November.
Her first single for Mercury, "I Don't Want to Be a One Night Stand," stalled at number 88 in May 1976. Keener produced the sessions with a countrypolitan arrangement that included strings. Two more singles also charted low, and her self-titled debut album arrived in 1977. On the road she had no band of her own and relied on house bands. Some of them did not know country music, so she filled stage time with jokes.
In 1978, a pair of songs with country artist Jacky Ward became her first top-20 hit. Keener then left the label, and producer Jerry Kennedy took over. He produced Out of a Dream in 1979, which included her version of Patsy Cline's "Sweet Dreams." It became her first top-20 hit as a solo artist.
By 1980 she had formed her own band with her sister Susie and her brother Pake. They toured in a three-car caravan that included a horse trailer for the instruments. Later she upgraded to a bus nicknamed Silver Eagle, which routinely broke down. That year "(You Lift Me) Up to Heaven" became her first top-10 country hit.
Her label kept pushing her toward a soft country-pop style, which she often disliked. The strain showed. In 1983 her bus was broken down when she learned that "Can't Even Get the Blues" had reached number one. Because of her rising success, she negotiated an early release from the label that year. "Let me put it this way, I've sorta taken my career into control myself," she explained.
MCA Records signed her in 1984. For her first album there, producer Harold Shedd wanted a country-pop arrangement, and she turned him down. Norro Wilson produced instead, but she still felt shut out of choosing material. MCA president Jimmy Bowen suggested she hunt for her own songs. With Don "Dirt" Lanier, she spent days listening to tracks from publishing companies. She found "Somebody Should Leave" by Harlan Howard and "How Blue" by Jon Moffat. Both reached number one.
They anchored My Kind of Country, which also covered classics first sung by Ray Price, Charley Pride and Connie Smith. Billboard called her "the finest woman country singer since Kitty Wells." United Press wrote that the album "represents a victory for McEntire. She has pulled in the reins of her career, regained control of her music and her life." The Country Music Association named her Female Vocalist of the Year for 1984. The record also helped nudge country toward traditional sounds, alongside work by George Strait and Randy Travis.
Whoever's in New England followed in February 1986. Its title track topped the country chart and won the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. The album became her first to top the country albums chart and later went platinum. She then added choreography and stage lighting to her shows. In the late 1980s she fired her manager and formed her own entertainment company. In 1987 she played New York's Carnegie Hall for the first time.
Early on the 16th of March 1991, a phone call woke McEntire in San Diego. Roger Woolsey, pilot of the second band plane, was on the line. Her husband took the call and learned that one of the two planes had crashed. The group had begun that leg of its tour in Alaska, then played Saginaw, Michigan, and Fort Wayne, Indiana, before a private gig for IBM. After years of long bus trips, the band had started flying private planes.
The first plane was a Hawker Siddeley DH-125-1A/522 charter jet. It left Brown Field Municipal Airport near the Mexican border at 1:40 am. After climbing to 3400 feet above sea level, its wing struck Otay Mountain, about 10 miles east of the airport. Everyone aboard died. The National Transportation Safety Board named "improper pilot planning" as the probable cause.
Eight band members were killed: guitarists Chris Austin and Michael Thomas, keyboardists Kirk Cappello and Joey Cigainero, vocalist Paula Kaye Evans, road manager Jim Hammon, bassist Terry Jackson and drummer Anthony Saputo. Pilot Donald Holmes and co-pilot Chris Hollinger also died. McEntire, her husband and her stylist had been due to fly the next day. The second plane reached Nashville safely.
A spokeswoman told The Los Angeles Times, "She was very close to all of them. Some of them had been with her for years. Reba is totally devastated by this. It's like losing part of your family. Right now, she just wants to get back to Nashville." McEntire later wrote that the weekend left them "emotionally and physically exhausted." Two days after the crash she gave an interview to People and scheduled a memorial service for the families.
Nine days after the crash, she sang "I'm Checkin' Out," a Best Original Song nominee from the film Postcards from the Edge, at the 63rd Academy Awards. Vince Gill and Dolly Parton offered help rebuilding her touring band. She dedicated her next album to those who died.
For My Broken Heart came out in October 1991. Alanna Nash of Entertainment Weekly described songs about "all measure of suffering" and singled out "Buying Her Roses." The record reached number three on the country albums chart and number 13 on the Billboard 200. It sold over four million copies in the United States, her best-selling album. Its title track and "Is There Life Out There" both went to number one.
Bobbie Gentry's 1969 single "Fancy" gave McEntire one of her signature songs. Her 1990 cover appeared on Rumor Has It, her first album to reach the top 40 of the Billboard 200. It went three-times platinum. From there she kept testing how far her sound could stretch. It's Your Call, released in December 1992, was her first top-10 album on the Billboard 200 and included a number-one duet with Vince Gill, "The Heart Won't Lie."
Linda Davis was an up-and-coming singer when McEntire chose her for "Does He Love You." MCA Records had urged her to record it with better-known names such as Wynonna Judd or Trisha Yearwood. It became her 18th number-one country hit. At the CMA Awards, McEntire wore a red dress with a plunging neckline, and it stirred controversy in Nashville.
Read My Mind, from 1994, climbed to number two on both the Billboard 200 and the country albums chart, and sold three million copies in the United States. It included "She Thinks His Name Was John," a song about a woman contracting AIDS. Its lyrics limited it to a top-20 position. In 1995 she marked 20 years in music with Starting Over, a set of favorite songs first recorded by others. Critics responded less warmly.
Brooks & Dunn toured with her in the mid-1990s, and in 1998 they recorded "If You See Him/If You See Her." It topped the country chart in both the United States and Canada. Critic Thom Owens read the two near-identical album titles as a way for veterans to draw attention while younger musicians gained ground. The partnership later led to a joint Las Vegas residency.
In the early 2000s she focused on acting and took a break from albums, apart from the 2001 theme song "I'm a Survivor." She returned in August 2003 with "I'm Gonna Take That Mountain." Her album Room to Breathe followed that November. "The reason I named the album Room to Breathe is because I needed a little room to breathe," she told Billboard. "Somebody" was her first number one in six years.
Reba: Duets arrived in September 2007, pairing her with Kenny Chesney, LeAnn Rimes, Trisha Yearwood, Carole King and Justin Timberlake. It topped both the country chart and the Billboard 200, a first for her. In 2008 she announced she would leave her label of 25 years for Valory Music Group, reuniting with its president, Scott Borchetta. Her 2009 single "Consider Me Gone" gave her a 24th number one, at age 54, making her one of the oldest women to top the chart.
In 2014 she moved to Nash Icon Music, a Big Machine imprint for veteran artists. Her 2016 Christmas album My Kind of Christmas was sold at Cracker Barrel and online, alongside her new Rockin' R by Reba line of clothing and home decor. Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope, her first gospel album, appeared on the 3rd of February 2017. It won the Grammy Award for Best Roots Gospel Album in January 2018, her first Grammy win in more than 20 years.
On the 20th of February 2020, she revealed a surprise return to MCA Nashville. Super Bowl LVIII in 2024 found her singing the national anthem, joined by deaf actor Daniel Durant in American Sign Language.
Tremors, which she filmed in 1989, gave McEntire her first film role as Heather Gummer opposite Kevin Bacon. The horror comedy followed a small group in Nevada fighting subterranean worm-like creatures. Its 1990 release sparked her interest in acting, and a Saturn Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actress followed in 1991. She then co-starred with Kenny Rogers and Burt Reynolds in made-for-television movies, and in 1994 worked with director Rob Reiner in North as Ma Tex.
Buffalo Girls, from 1995, cast her as Annie Oakley beside Anjelica Huston's Calamity Jane, and it earned an Emmy nomination. The year before, she had starred in Is There Life Out There?, a television movie based on her own song. In 1996 director James Cameron cast her as Molly Brown in Titanic. When production ran long, she had to decline because of concert dates already booked. Kathy Bates took the role.
Broadway welcomed her in early 2001 in a revival of Annie Get Your Gun, again as Annie Oakley. The New York Times called hers "Without qualification the best performance by an actress in a musical comedy this season." She called it "some of the hardest work I've ever done in my life." In 2005 she played Nellie Forbush in a Carnegie Hall concert of South Pacific, broadcast in 2006.
The WB premiered her sitcom Reba in October 2001. She played Reba Hart, a divorced mother whose husband left her for his dental hygienist. Then the couple's teenage daughter became pregnant, too. The show became the network's highest-rated program among adults aged 18 to 49 and earned McEntire a Golden Globe nomination. It ran six seasons. Its finale drew 8.7 million viewers after cancellation on the 18th of February 2007.
ABC's Malibu Country in 2012 had her play a divorced mother who moves to Malibu to restart her music career. It was canceled on the 10th of May 2013 after 18 episodes. Later roles included a water spirit named Trish in the 2021 comedy Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, whose writers sent her an "impassioned letter" asking her to join. She played Sunny Barnes in season three of Big Sky and appeared as June on Young Sheldon.
In 2016 she gave America's Got Talent's Golden Buzzer to contortionist Sofie Dossi, and in September 2023 she sang "Can't Even Get the Blues" while Dossi performed. McEntire became a coach on The Voice in 2023 and helped Asher HaVon win season 25 on the 21st of May 2024. She now stars in and executive-produces the NBC sitcom Happy's Place, co-starring Melissa Peterman.
Bob Wills's music mattered enough to McEntire that she went to dances along the Oklahoma-Texas border during college just to hear it. "It didn't get any better than dancing to Bob Wills music," she said. She owned every Merle Haggard album and sang every song with her brother and sister. Patsy Cline's version of "Sweet Dreams" inspired her first major hit, and Barbara Mandrell and Dolly Parton also shaped her.
A contralto, she performs what she calls vocal gymnastics, twirling a note with vibrato. She credits Dolly Parton, whose records she played constantly. Her music blends traditional country with country pop, pop, soul and rhythm and blues. Critics have called some of it "melodramatic," "formulaic" and "bombastic," especially after her 1988 album Reba. Sweet Sixteen, Rumor Has It, It's Your Call and Starting Over drew similar labels.
She has sold more than 75 million records worldwide. In the United States, several of her albums are platinum or multi-platinum. She reached number one on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. She is also among the few artists with solo number-one singles across those four decades.
The Country Music Association made her the first woman to win Female Vocalist of the Year four times in a row. Miranda Lambert matched her in 2013, and Carrie Underwood joined them in 2016. McEntire has won the American Music Awards' Favorite Country Female Artist trophy 12 times and the Academy of Country Music's Top Female Vocalist seven times. She has 51 CMA nominations and 47 ACM nominations, each the second-most for a woman. She holds three Grammy Awards in all.
The Grand Ole Opry inducted her on the 17th of January 1986. "The Grand Ole Opry is a home," she says. "It's a family. It's like a family reunion, when you come back and get to see everybody." In 2011 the Country Music Association announced her Hall of Fame induction. She missed the announcement because her father was in a coma after a stroke. Dolly Parton inducted her at the ceremony.
In July 2018 she was named one of four Kennedy Center honorees, alongside Cher, Philip Glass and Wayne Shorter. The ceremony took place on the 2nd of December 2018. CBS broadcast it on the 26th of December. About her place in the genre she has said, "I feel like I'm waving the flag of country music wherever I go, and I couldn't be prouder to do it."
In 1976, McEntire married steer wrestling champion and rancher Charlie Battles, who was ten years older and had two sons. They shared a ranch in Oklahoma. In 1987 she divorced him and moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to advance her career. Critics noted that the songs on The Last One to Know reflected the split.
In 1989 she married Narvel Blackstock, her manager and a former steel guitar player, on a boat at Lake Tahoe. Together they formed Starstruck Entertainment. She gained three stepchildren, Chassidy, Shawna and Brandon, and had a son, Shelby Steven McEntire Blackstock, in February 1990. A joint statement on the 3rd of August 2015 announced their separation after 26 years of marriage. The divorce was finalized on the 28th of October 2015.
Afterward she became her own manager. She recruited Justin McIntosh of Starstruck Entertainment, brand manager Leslie Matthews and Carolyn Snell, who had worked with her for nine years. Together they formed Reba's Business Inc. and moved to Green Hills, Nashville.
Stepson Brandon Blackstock married singer Kelly Clarkson. McEntire said she was "Thrilled to death, to have my buddy as my daughter-in-law." Brandon died of melanoma on the 7th of August 2025 at age 48. McEntire began a relationship with photographer Anthony "Skeeter" Lasuzzo in 2017. In 2020 she began dating actor Rex Linn, whom she first met on the set of The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw. They announced their engagement before the 2025 Emmy Awards, though it began in December 2024.
Her brother Pake owns a 1,000-acre ranch near Coalgate, Oklahoma, and still rodeos. Her sister Susie McEntire-Eaton is a Christian music singer, while older sister Alice Foran is a retired social worker. Her niece Calamity McEntire is associate head coach of the University of Illinois women's basketball team. McEntire is a Christian and says her faith has helped her immensely.
In 1992 she opened Reba's Ranch House in Denison, Texas, an extended-stay residence for relatives of patients at Texoma Medical Center and nearby facilities. She supports Habitat for Humanity, the Salvation Army, the American Red Cross, Feeding America and Celebrity Fight Night. Honors include the Minnie Pearl Award, the ACM Home Depot Humanitarian Award and the Andrea Bocelli Foundation Humanitarian Award. In 2018 she received the Horatio Alger Award, named for a "rags to riches" writer, which recognizes perseverance and giving back.
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Who is Reba McEntire?
Reba McEntire is an American country singer and actress, born on the 28th of March 1955 and known as the Queen of Country. She has placed more than 100 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, 25 of them at number one.
How many records has Reba McEntire sold?
Reba McEntire has sold more than 75 million records worldwide. Her best-selling album, For My Broken Heart from 1991, sold over four million copies in the United States.
What happened in the 1991 plane crash that affected Reba McEntire?
On the 16th of March 1991, a charter jet carrying members of her band hit Otay Mountain near San Diego. Eight band members and two pilots died, and the NTSB cited improper pilot planning as the probable cause.
How did Reba McEntire get her first record deal?
Country artist Red Steagall heard her sing at the National Finals Rodeo in 1974 and helped arrange a demo in Nashville. PolyGram/Mercury Records signed her in November 1975 after producer Glenn Keener chose her tape.
What is the Reba McEntire TV show about?
Reba is a sitcom that premiered on The WB in October 2001 and ran six seasons. McEntire played Reba Hart, a divorced mother raising her family after her husband left her.
When did Reba McEntire win the Kennedy Center Honors?
Reba McEntire was named a Kennedy Center honoree in July 2018. The ceremony took place on the 2nd of December 2018, and CBS broadcast it on the 26th of December.
How many Grammy Awards has Reba McEntire won?
Reba McEntire has won three Grammy Awards, in 1987-1994 and 2018. The 2018 win was for Best Roots Gospel Album for Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope.
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- 155Dignity MemorialSCI Shared Resources, LLC
- 1565 moments that changed Reba McEntire's life and careerRachael Monaco
- 157NewsReba McEntire splits from husband-manager Narvel BlackstockNardine Saad
- 158NewsReba McEntire Confirms Date of Divorce From Ex-Husband Narvel Blackstock on FacebookKaren Mizoguchi — December 19, 2015
- 159NewsKelly Clarkson Marries Fiance Brandon Blackstock In Tennessee – All the Details!Stephanie Webber — October 21, 2013
- 160NewsReba McEntire "Thrilled to Death" to Have Kelly Clarkson as Daughter-in-LawBruna Nessif — February 12, 2013
- 162NewsBrandon Blackstock's Official Cause of Death Confirmed After Ex-Husband of Kelly Clarkson Died at 48Ilana Kaplan et al. — 11 August 2025
- 163NewsBrandon Blackstock, Kelly Clarkson's Ex-Husband, Dead at 48 from CancerRachel DeSantis et al. — August 7, 2025
- 164Reba McEntire's in Love! And No One Is More Surprised Than She Is: 'I Was Not Looking'Nancy Kruh — April 4, 2019
- 165Reba McEntire Confirms Split From Boyfriend Skeeter Lasuzzo After 2 Years of DatingDory Jackson — November 5, 2019
- 167Reba McEntire Owes Her Relationship to Young SheldonOctober 11, 2023
- 168Reba McEntire is engaged to her Happy's Place costar Rex Linn after 5 years of datingJessica Wang — Entertainment Weekly
- 169Reba McEntire Reveals Why She And Rex Linn Kept Their Engagement A Secret For Almost A YearMadeleine O'Connell — 2025-10-22
- 171NewsReba benefit raises over half a million dollarsTMC — July 29, 2005
- 172NewsCountry music superstar buys popcorn from local Cub ScoutsAaron Derr — October 11, 2023
- 173NewsReba McEntire to Receive Horatio Alger Award for Education, Charity WorkRolling Stone — 19 December 2017
- 176NewsAcademy of Country Music Awards winnersReba McEntire — September 12, 2017
- 177NewsCher, 'Hamilton,' Philip Glass to Receive Kennedy Center HonorsRolling Stone
- 178Reba McEntireOpry
- 17928 Year Ago: Reba McEntire joins the Grand Ole OpryGayle Thompson
- 180NewsReba McEntire among Country Hall of Fame inducteesJanuary 3, 2011
- 181Reba McEntire Uses Voice To Stir Audience's Okie PrideRobert Medley — November 27, 1987
- 182NewsReba McEntire performs at Show Me Center in 1988Peggy Scott — Rust Communications — May 16, 2018
- 183REBA & RICKY SHOWJack Hurst — February 9, 1989
- 184Reba McEntire Loves Performing For the Folks in Her Home StateShannon Van Meter — November 23, 1990
- 185MCENTIRE WILL TOUR CANADADeseret News Publishing Company — March 19, 1991
- 186MagazineReba in ConcertBPI Communications — February 22, 1992
- 18829 trade in their firearms for Reba McEntire ticketsJoan Jacobson — March 14, 1994
- 189Country Queen Reba Mcentire Has Powerful Voice, Big ProductionJohn Moran — September 1, 1995
- 190Reba McEntire, Billy Dean With Special Guest Linda DavisMichael W. Stout — April 1996
- 191'The Singer's Diary' Breaks Concert MoldParke Puterbaugh — February 13, 2000
- 192Country queen: Down-to-earth Reba McEntire doesn't seem at all like royaltyBrian Dugger — November 21, 2004
- 193Reba Mcentire Reveals 2011 Tour DatesAmy Sciarretto — Townsquare Media — July 6, 2011
- 194Legendary singer Reba McEntire tickles Victoria fans' fancyMike Devlin — October 8, 2013
- 195For a Grandstand crowd of 14,000, Reba McEntire is Iowa State Fair royaltyMatthew Leimkuehler — Gannett Co., Inc. — August 11, 2018
- 196Reba McEntire Postpones Second Concert Date Due To Ongoing IllnessParis Close — 2019-03-16
- 197Reba Announces Multi-City TourReba's Business, Inc. — October 11, 2021
- 198Country Acts Hitting The Road To Win Back FansJim Patterson — March 12, 1997
- 199MagazineReba, Martina Spearhead 'Girls' Night Out' TourJonathan Cohen et al. — BPI Communications — April 9, 2001
- 200Tour Profile: Reba McEntire and Brad PaisleyStrother Bullins — July 1, 2005
- 201Reba, Kelly present '2 Worlds 2 Voices Tour' at BJCBernard Punt — Pennsylvania State University — November 18, 2010
- 202George Strait tours with Reba McEntire, Lee Ann Womack through fallAllison Reitz — June 4, 2010
- 203JournalVideo as Lighting: Mixing Media for Reba McEntirePLASA — September 2006
- 204Reba McEntire and Brooks & Dunn Extend Las Vegas Residency With 24 New DatesJim Casey — Cumulus Media — December 3, 2019
- 205Happy birthday, Reba McEntire: Take a look back at her career hereLee Enterprises — March 28, 2022
- 206The Statler Brothers with Special Guest Reba McEntire Concert TicketTennessee Tech University — October 2022
- 207From Universal Pictures Home Entertainment: The Land Before Time: Journey of the BraveUniversal Pictures Home Entertainment — PR Newswire — December 17, 2015
- 208Reba McEntire's the Hammer (2023) - IMDBJanuary 8, 2023
- 209Reba McEntire Comedy 'Happy's Place' Ordered to Series at NBCSelome Hailu — 2024-05-08
- 210BookReba: My StoryTom Carter et al. — Bantam Books — 1994
- 211BookFinding Her Voice: Women in Country Music: 1800–2000Robert K. Oermann et al. — The Country Music Press & Vanderbilt University Press — 2003
- 212BookCountry Music: The Rough GuideKurt Wolff — Penguin Books — 2000