1- Reba Nell McEntire was born March 28, 1955 in McAlester, Oklahoma
2- Reba Was a serious basketball player as a young girl.
3- She Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in March 2011.
4- In 1992, she opened Reba’s Ranch House in Denison, TX
5- She received the National Artistic Achievement Award in 2010
6- McEntire possesses a contralto vocal range and performs “vocal gymnastics” with her voice, a musical technique in which a singer twirls a note around, using their vibrato
7- Her best loved drink is whiskey and 7Up
8- Reba and late President George H.W. Bush were Friends
9- She released her first solo album in 1977
10- In 1991, McEntire played madam Burgundy Jones in the TV movie The Gambler Returns: Luck of the Draw, co-starring Kenny Rogers.
11- Reba Is a staunch conservative Republican.
12- At age 5, Reba was already taking driving lessons on her family’s ranch in Oklahoma
13- When McEntire was 12, she made her first-ever recording, with brother Pake and sister Susie
14- She Turned Down A Role In Titanic
15- She loves photography.
16- She began her career in the music industry as a high school student singing in the Kiowa High School band, on local radio shows with her siblings, and at rodeos
17- She attended college to be a teacher
18- Her entire band died in a plane crash.
19- When the childhood classic “Charlotte’s Web” was released as an animated film in 2006, Reba McEntire and Kathy Bates both had voice roles.
20- Her son Shelby Blackstock is a professional race car driver
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