Jillian Scott
Ms. Delhomme
Literature 82
May 1, 2015
Reba McEntire Reba Nell McEntire is a legendary country singer. She grew up in the small town of McAlester, Oklahoma, and is now a star in Nashville, Tennessee. She is still going strong at the age of sixty. Reba was born on March 28, 1955. Her profession is being a country singer and an actor. She is married and has one child. She was born and raised in McAlester, Oklahoma. She was the third of four children. She was born into a family of champion steel ropers. During her schooling years she was a great athlete. She was a cheerleader, a member of the track team, and a basketball player. In junior high she and two of her siblings formed the group the “Singing McEntires”. The group later
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He first saw her singing at the National Finals Rodeo. She then signed with Mercury Records. Her song, “You Lift Me Up (To Heaven)”, made the Billboard country Top 10, in 1980. This had ultimately launched her amazing career. Throughout her career she has stuck close to her country roots.
She has struggled with many things throughout her career. One thing she has struggled with was when she first started singing is that she did not like the songs she was given to sing. She felt like she was being pushed too much into the country-pop direction. She then had to deal with paying pack the investment Mercury had put into her. Reba sought for a release in her contract and went on and continued to produce with Jimmy Brown. She also had to deal with the death of seven of her bandmates and her road manager in a plane crash in 1991.
Despite the troubles she went through, Reba McEntire has many accomplishments. She has received over forty awards for her singing. She has over a hundred songs and twenty albums. She has acted in several movies and has starred in a sitcom called Reba. For twenty six years, she has been in a happy and successful marriage with Narvel Blackstock. She has one son named Shelby Blackstock and three step-children from her husband’s previous
Best selling author, Michelle McNamara, wrote some of the greatest crime novels of our time, but few people knew about her secret life. Michelle had her own private drug den filled with a variety of prescription and illegal drugs.
Reba McEntire took the romantic route. "I'll Be," which was released in the middle of that year, is an incredibly touching and heartwarming song about one's love for family or a significant other. Her second song that was released by December, "We're So Good Together," is a light-hearted and fun song to dance to, which really shows off Reba's strong voice. Both are beautifully written and performed.
Mary Lou Retton was born on January 24, 1968 in Fairmont, West Virginia. She was the daughter of Lois and Ronnie Retton and the youngest of five children. At the age of four, she began studying dance and acrobatics, then started gymnastics training a year later. After she started developing a great love of gymnastics as a girl, Mary Lou Retton moved to Houston, Texas, to train with the amazing Romanian coach, Bela Karolyi. Mary Lou grew
Chelsea C. McAllister was born in Newark, DE in 1996. She has spent most of her years residing in Delaware and Pennsylvania with her family. At the age of age of 10 she moved with her parents and younger brothers to West Grove, Pennsylvania where she learned to stay true to herself instead of others by taking confidence in her skills, abilities. She also learned how to not be consumed by the children who bullied her for her weight, hair length, the clothing she wore, and skin complexion.
She was born and raised in the city. In Chicago, she lives with her mother and her two siblings. She has a brother and a sister, and she is the middle child. She also has four dogs. She used to have a turtle, named Toby.
She was born April 4,1802 she was born in Massachusetts she was also the oldest of three kids. When she was twelve she went to live with her grandma because her dad was abusive. Here's the helping the sick part when she was a young adult she became a teacher and started her own school, she decided to quit being a teacher and become a nurses in the civil war.
Bessie Coleman was born in Atlanta, Texas, 1892,few years later she moved to Waxahachie,Texas where she is living on a farm. When she was nine,her dad left to go back to the Indian Territory,and her mom didn’t want to go with him , so he left. All the time she would skip school to help her mom pick cotton. Years later when Coleman graduated from high school, she went to college at Langston University in Oklahoma. After the first semester she was forced to dropped out because she didn’t have enough money to stay in college.
Boone was singing Gospel materials in 70’s. Her daughter also rose in the charts for her singing. Boone hosted some radio shows too. Some of his other hit songs are Let Me Live, Smoke on the Water and Stairway to Heaven.
Whitney Houston grew up in humble beginnings, with fame on her side, helping her to become the modern-day tragic hero that the public knows. According to Biography, “Born on August 9, 1963 in Newark, New
She was raised in Checotah, by her mother Carole, and her father, Stephen (Knapp). Growing up in the country, she enjoyed things like playing on dirt roads, climbing trees, and of course singing (Fabian). Carrie was an excellent student, she attended Checotah Public Schools and graduated high school in 2001, as the Salutatorian. Carrie later attended Northeastern State University, in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, to major in mass communication. In 2006, she graduated with a Bachelors degree (Knapp).
Toni Michele Braxton was born on October 7, 1967, in Severn, Maryland to parents Michael and Evelyn Braxton. The eldest of six siblings, Toni was raised in a strict Pentecostal home. She is most known as an American R&B singer-songwriter. Her other credits include pianist, record producer, actress, and philanthropist.
Not everyone is blessed with musical talent but when someone has an extraordinary ability, he or she should get the chance to please others with it. Sometimes a career can be made out of musical endowment, and that is what Billie Holiday did. Billie had a life that she may not have dreamed of since it started out rough with her mistreatment from adults and discouraging misfortunes, but she was ambitious and that showed through her singing career. Billie could usually adapt to her life’s problems except for her drug addiction and alcohol abuse, which unfortunately led to her demise. She was a talented woman who sang and helped create hit songs that aided her to rise to fame. Billie Holiday bravely stood up to racism, showed the world her talent, and inspired many of her beloved fans, all while continuing to be herself and not allowing the issues in her life hold her back.
Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine on February 2, 1892. She was the first daughter of three girls; her parents, Cora Buzzelle Millay and Henry Tolman Millay. Millay's parents divorced in 1900 and her mother
Katy Perry is a well-known pop singer, songwriter and musician from America. She was born on 25 October 1984 in Santa Barbara, California. She has a pair of pastor parents and two siblings include an elder sister and a younger brother. As growing up in a deeply religious family, there was much common teenage stuff that not allowed to do by Perry and her siblings. For example, they only can listen to gospel instead of any other music when being in the house and therefore she had to secretly listen to other sorts of music which provided by her friends. She started to take the singing lessons around the age of 9 and learned to play guitar when she was 13. A passion for music grew around that time and thus she soon pursues a career in music at
She was also a singer who sang in “Happy Feet”, which was a 2006 hit movie. (Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television. Vol. 105.).