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Reba Mcentire Research Paper

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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 …show more content…

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

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