Honors...

Reba is a six-time CMA Award winner. She earned Female Vocalist of the Year honors four straight years (1984-87), was named Entertainer of the Year in 1986 and won the Vocal Event of the Year trophy in 1994 for "Does He Love You," which featured fellow country singer Linda Davis. Overall, Reba has received 44 CMA Award nominations, including a personal-best seven in '94. Even better is her record at the ACM Awards, where Reba has won 12 times, including a whopping seven trophies for Top Female Vocalist (1984-87, 1990-91, 1994). She's also captured two Grammy Awards, winning the 1993 trophy for Best Country Vocal Collaboration and the 1986 gramophone for Best Country Vocal Performance, Female. Reba also is a 14-time American Music Awards recipient, and has won nine People's Choice Awards.

Television series Star...

REBA is the highest ranking comedy on the WB network

REBA set a new all-time record for any program on the WB's Friday night (best ever Friday in women 19-49)

Original title, Sally, changed to REBA in 2001

Reba named Executive Producer in 2002

REBA picked up for Seasons 4 & 5 in 2005.

Variety: McEntire's energy and enthusiasm seem to shed a new glow on the whole production. And of course the particular qualities of McEntire's lovely singing bring something fresh and exciting to Irving Berlin's score.

New York Times: WIthout qualification, the best performance by an actress in a musical comedy this season. Ms. McEntire doesn't need a gun to bring Manhattan to its knees.

New York Journal News: Amazingly, this is McEntire's Broadway debut - in fact, her first appearance in a play of any kind. After a long and fruitful career in Nashville, she suddenly makes Broadway her oyster.

Author...

Two books: Reba: My Story, and Comfort from a Country Quilt

Multiple weeks on the "New York Times" Best-Seller's List

Best-selling country autobiography of all time - Reba: My Story

Over one million copies sold

Touring Sensation...

Headliner of first all-female country music tour, Girls' Night Out

First country female headliner to sell as many tickets as the male country tours

Top five grossing country music tours 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 2001

Philanthropist...

Recipient of first annual HOME DEPOT HUMANITARIAN AWARD

Recipient of MINNIE PEARL HUMANITARIAN AWARD

National spokesperson for FIRST BOOK

Thirteen years of concert fundraisers for Reba's Mobile Mammography Unit, Reba's Ranch House, and Reba McEntire Center for Rehabilitation

A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Personal:  Born March 28, 1955 in McAlester, Okla and was raised in Chockie Okla.

Education:  Reba attended Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Durant Okla., where she majored in elementary education and minored in music.

Family:  Reba divorced her first husband, champion steer wrestler Charlie Battles, in 1987 after 11 years of marriage. She married her road manager and former pedal-steel-guitar player, Narvel Blackstock, in 1989.  The couple have one child, a son, Shelby.  Older sister, Alice Foran, is the (retired) director of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services office in Atoka.  Brother Pake McEntire, owns a cattle ranch outside Kiowa, Okla., and performs at rodeos with his three children.  Younger sister, Susie Luchsinger, is a contemporary Christian recording artist.

Excerpt from "Reba: My Story":  "There wasn't any pampering in the [cattle] pens.  One time, Daddy and I were there, worming and branding, and it was getting close to 11 a.m., the heat of the day.  There wasn't a breeze at all. I was standing real close to the fire that kept the branding irons hot.  Next think I knew, my legs went out from under me and I was out.  I guess I had a heatstroke.  When I came to, Daddy was taking a drink out of the water jug.  He saw I was coming to and handed the jug to me, helped me to my feet, and we finished our job."
 
 

BIGGEST HITS

"Somebody Should Leave," "Little Rock," "Whoever's in New England," "You Lie," "Fancy," "For My Broken Heart," "It's Your Call," "Rumor Has It," "Is There Life Out There," "The Greatest Man I Never Knew," "Does He Love You," "Somebody."
 

FILMS

"Tremors," "The Gambler" (with Kenny Rogers), "The Man From Left Field," "The Little Rascals," "North," "Is There Life Out There," "Buffalo Girls," "Forever Love," "Secret Of Giving," "One Night At McCools."
 
 

REBA AT A GLANCE

1974:  Discovered when she sings the national anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City.

1978:  Releases first album, "Reba McEntire."

1984:  Named Female Vocalist of the Year by the Country Music Association, first of six times.

1985:  Named Female Vocalist of the Year by the Academy of Country Music, first of ten times.

1987:  Wins Grammy for Best Country Vocal Performance by a female for "Whoever's in New England."

1988:  Named Favorite Female Country Vocalist on the American Music Awards, first of fourteen times.

1990:  Makes film debut in "Tremors." Gives birth to son, Shelby.

1991:  Tour manager and seven band members killed in plane crash.

1994:  Wrote the #1 Bestseller Reba: My Story.

1996: The official website reba.com is launched. Skiing accident causes a broken leg.

1997: Co-headlines with Brooks & Dunn on tour.

1998:  Tours Australia with Kenny Rogers. Wins the Minnie Pearl Humanitarian Award. Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (7018 Hollywood Blvd)

1999:  Tours the UK, releases follow-up Christmas album and begins 'The Singers Diary.' Wrote 2nd book Comfort From A Country Quilt.

2000:  Named #1 Best-Selling Female Country Artist, and #2 Best-Selling Female of All Genres (only behind Barbra Streisand).