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Reba Nell McEntire (ree-BƏ-mak-IN-tire; born March 28, 1955), or simply Reba, is an American country singer and actress. Dubbed "the Queen of Country", she has sold more than 75 million records worldwide. Since the 1970s she has placed over 100 singles on the BillboardHot Country Songs chart, 25 of which reached the number one spot. An actress in films and television, McEntire starred in the television series Reba, which aired for six seasons. She also owns several businesses, including a restaurant and a clothing line.

One of four children, McEntire was born and raised in Oklahoma. With her mother's help, she and her siblings formed the Singing McEntires, which played at local events and recorded for a small label. McEntire later enrolled at Southeastern Oklahoma State University and studied to become a public school teacher. She also continued to occasionally perform and was heard singing at a rodeo event by country performer Red Steagall. Drawn to her singing voice, Steagall helped McEntire secure a country music recording contract with PolyGram/Mercury Reco

Reba Nell McEntire was born in March 28, 1955, in Oklahoma. She did not grow up rich, but she would be the first person to tell you she’s not looking for pity about her humble upbringing. Her father was Clark Vincent McEntire, a steer roper, and her mother was Jacqueline Smith, a schoolteacher. Reba was the third of four children, including her older sister, Alice Lynn, older brother, Del Stanley (nickname “Pake”), and younger sister, Martha Susan.

Clark didn’t finish high school, but Jacqueline attended Southeastern Oklahoma State University and taught grades one through eight at a one-room schoolhouse. Her father was highly successful at steer roping, a rodeo event where a cowboy on a horse lassos a steer by the horns.

Her True Calling

When she was a child, Reba’s parents owned a small house and cattle ranch in Chockie, Oklahoma. In her 1994 book, Reba: My Story, she described how she was gathering cattle on her parents’ ranch by the time she was 6 years old and “doing it from before daylight until after dark by the time I was 7.” Despite growing up around rodeos, cattle, and horses, she was actually so nervous about her own venture into calf roping that she would throw up before performances. In her book, she explained how she never felt that way about singing, so that was the career she ended up pursuing.

Though her family encouraged her calf roping, they were equally supportive of her vocal endeavors. Music was always a big part of the McEntires’ lives. In My Story, she recalled family gatherings as a child where they would “play music, sing and dance until daylight.”

Reba’s first official performance was in first grade. It was the first time she ever held a real microphone that wasn’t just her hairbrush. She sang “Away in a Manger” during a Christmas program held in the high school gymnasium. But it was in fifth grade when she really decided she wanted to be an ent

Years before Reba McEntire broke through in country music, she told the story of her father Clark a family man and champion steer roper, who was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 1979. “Daddy,” featured on her second album Out of a Dream in 1979, was never released as a single but was a song that remained close to McEntire’s heart.

It also marked the first time a song written by McEntire was featured on one of her albums.

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‘He Wanted More Out of Life For Us’

McEntire’s lyrics read like a biography of Clark and his Oklahoma roots from ranching and wrangling cattle, roping at the rodeo, and bringing his family along where he went. She also sings about how he wanted more for his children, which prompted them to start performing.

My daddy is a rancher
He’s wrangled cattle dang near all his life
He also liked to rodeo
He traveled around with four kids and a wife

Well his old ranch is rocky
But his ropes sail smooth for several years
He worked real hard
And roped real good
And tried to get his ranch out in the clear

He didn’t want us kids to rodeo
He wanted more out of life for us
Maybe banking, or a lawyer
Or maybe even driving some old bus

Well that’s when we took up singing
And his pride grew greater day by day
And I know his eyes grew misty
The night I sang up on the Opry stage

By high school Reba and her siblings started performing as The Singing McEntires and released their debut single “The Ballad of John McEntire” in 1971 about their grandfather John Wesley McEntire, who was also a champion steer roper. After finishing high school, Reba’s father encouraged her to take on a job singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, which helpe

American country singer and actress (born 1955)

For the album, see Reba McEntire (album).

Reba Nell McEntire (REE-bə-MAK-in-tire; born March 28, 1955), or simply Reba, is an American country singer and actress. Dubbed "the Queen of Country", she has sold more than 75 million records worldwide. Since the 1970s she has placed over 100 singles on the BillboardHot Country Songs chart, 25 of which reached the number one spot. An actress in films and television, McEntire starred in the television series Reba, which aired for six seasons. She also owns several businesses, including a restaurant and a clothing line.

One of four children, McEntire was born and raised in Oklahoma. With her mother's help, she and her siblings formed the Singing McEntires, which played at local events and recorded for a small label. McEntire later enrolled at Southeastern Oklahoma State University and studied to become a public school teacher. She also continued to occasionally perform and was heard singing at a rodeo event by country performer Red Steagall. Drawn to her singing voice, Steagall helped McEntire secure a country music recording contract with PolyGram/Mercury Records in 1975. In that year, she relocated with her mother to Nashville, Tennessee.

Over the next several years, PolyGram/Mercury released a series of McEntire's albums and singles, which amounted to little success. In the early 1980s, McEntire's music gained more momentum through several top ten country songs, including "(You Lift Me) Up to Heaven", "I'm Not That Lonely Yet", and her first number one "Can't Even Get the Blues". Yet McEntire became increasingly unhappy with her career trajectory and signed with MCA Records in 1984. Her second MCA album titled My Kind of Country (1984) became her breakout release, spawning two number one Billboard country singles and pointed toward a more traditional musical style. Throu