11 Interesting Facts You Didn’t Know About Reba McEntire 

At 5 years old, Reba McEntire would drive her dad's truck

She's pals with former President George H. W. Bush.

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Reba enjoys photography in her spare time.

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Reba McEntire in March 1991, lost eight members of her band and crew in a horrific plane accident.

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Reba wanted to be a teacher as her mom was also a schoolteacher.

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She enjoys a good corn dog.

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When McEntire was 12, she made her first-ever recording (The Ballad of John McEntire ), with brother Pake and sister Susie.

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Reba McEntire is the only country female solo act to have a No. 1 hit in four straight decades: the 1980s, '90s, '00s and '10s.

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The country legend has been singing since the age of 5, but before she was famous for that skill, she competed in rodeos as a barrel racer.

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In her college days, Reba was a member of a campus singing and dancing group called the Chorvettes.

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McEntire played madam Burgundy Jones in the TV movie The Gambler Returns: Luck of the Draw, co-starring Kenny Rogers in 1991.

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