- Born
- Birth nameReba Nell McEntire
- Nicknames
- The Queen of Country Music
- Big Red
- Country Music's Queen!
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Reba Nell McEntire was born in 1955 in McAlester, Oklahoma. The reigning queen of country music has pursued a musical career since she was 5. In Junior High school, she performed with her musical siblings, aka the Singing McEntires. A fine athlete, Reba McEntire followed in the footsteps of her rodeo champion father in competitive barrel racing. Her performance of the "Star Spangled Banner" at the 1974 National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City caught the attention of songwriter Red Steagall, who suggested she consider a career in country music. She has since earned 7 gold and 5 platinum albums and 2 Grammy Awards. She has also explored other avenues of entertainment, serving as a guest-host on Good Morning America (1975) & earning generally favorable reviews for her acting in the movie titled "Tremors" & TV mini-series, Buffalo Girls (1995). In 1988, she formed Starstruck Entertainment to oversee the very numerous aspects of her musical & acting careers.
She is extremely fortunate that she was not along with her seven band members and her touring manager when tragedy occurred and the airplane they were in crashed on Saturday, March 16th, 1991. There were eight lives lost that tragic Saturday.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ray Hamel
- SpousesNarvel Blackstock(June 3, 1989 - October 28, 2015) (divorced, 1 child)Charlie Battles(June 21, 1976 - June 25, 1987) (divorced)
- Children
- ParentsClark McEntireJacqueline McEntire
- RelativesSusie McEntire(Sibling)Pake McEntire(Sibling)Alice Foran(Sibling)
- Red hair
- Sparkling blue eyes
- Oklahoma accent
- 1991: Her entire band died in a plane crash.
- Attended and graduated from Southeastern Oklahoma State University (1976).
- Majored in Elementary Education and minored in Music.
- Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in March 2011.
- Was a bridesmaid in her Reba (2001) co-star, JoAnna Garcia Swisher's wedding.
- You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.
- Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.
- Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.
- [when asked by Larry King if she had ever been asked to "sex it up" a little] I'm more of the down-home -- I guess, you know, the good-old girl. Being sexy is kind of funny to me. You know, I can get kind of spunky or I can get tough, you know, that kind of tough, sexy look. But sexy? No, I don't think so. Just what you see is what you get on me. And it's never been anything of a sexual nature.
- To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
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