Reba Nell McEntire was born on 28th March 1955, in McAlester, Oklahoma USA. She is a well known country music singer, songwriter and one of the best selling artists of all time. What is more, Reba has been engaged in acting and is a nominee for the Golden Globe Award. In addition to this, she has been working as a record producer and television producer. Reba McEntire has been active in the entertainment industry since 1975.
Reba McEntire Net Worth $65 Million
Reba McEntire has had many sources of wealth as follows: music, singing, song-writing, acting which made her overall amount of the net worth equal to $65 million, as of today.
Reba McEntire has been interested in music and singing since an early age, encouraged by her mother Jacqueline Together with her siblings, she founded the band “Singing McEntires” and managed to record a song “The Ballad of John McEntire”. They performed at rodeos where she was noticed by Red Steagall who helped her to sign a contract with Mercury Records. In 1977, she debuted with her studio album “Reba McEntire”. Since 1980 her albums have entered the lists of Billboard Top Country Albums. In 1984, the studio album “My Kind of Country” was released which was her first album to receive gold certification according to the sales in USA. All other albums released up to 1990 received gold or platinum certifications for sales in the USA. Later, Reba McEntire became even more popular as her albums “Rumor Has It” (1990), “For My Broken Heart” (1991), “It’s Your Call” (1992), “Read My Mind” (1994), “Starting Over” (1995) and “What If It’s You” (1996) received multi-platinum certification in USA; more, they were certified in Canada. Of course, it has increased the popularity and the net worth of the singer.
Since 2000, the singer has not been so active, however her albums and singles are still very popular. Her albums “Room to Breathe” (2003) and “Reba: Duets” (2005) were certified platinum, “Keep On Loving You” (2009) – gold, although all of the above mentioned albums reached very high positions in Country and Main charts in USA. In 2015, she is going to release a new studio album “Love Somebody”. As a popular singer she has a collection of various awards including seven Academy of Country Music Top Female Vocalist Awards, twelve American Music Awards for Favourite Country Female Artist and many other awards and honours.
In 1990, she debuted as an actress in the film “Tremors” directed by Ron Underwood, and for her role she was nominated for the Saturn Award as the Best Supporting Actress. Later, she landed roles in feature films “North” (1994), “The Little Rascals” (1994) and “One Night at McCool’s” (2001). More, she landed roles in various television series, among which the most popular was “Reba” (2001 – 2007) and for her role of Reba Hart she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award as the Best Actress. In addition to this, she appeared on the Broadway stage, and for a role in the play “Annie Get Your Gun” (2001) she won the Drama Desk Special Award and Theatre World Award. Her involvement in acting also added revenue to the overall amount of her net worth.
Reba McEntire has been married twice: her first husband was a steer wrestler and rancher Charlie Battles whom she married in 1976. However, they divorced in 1987 as they regarded family life and duties differently. Her second husband was her manager Narvel Blackstock whom she married in 1989. Together they have a son and have raised three children from Narvel’s first marriage.
