Always Music
Since Reba’s mother loved country music, she shared her passion with her kids and started to teach the very young Reba to sing. Reba’s debut solo-performance was her singing “Away in a Manger” in a Christmas play when she was in first grade. Her family had to travel frequently because of the rodeo competitions her father joined. While they were on the road, the whole family sang. Locals started calling the kids the Singing McEntires after they slowly began performing. The local radio often had Reba sing for them and rodeo competitions made a request for the national anthem to be sung by her. When she was just in third grade, the high school in her town asked if she could sing at their graduation ceremony.
Always Music
Faith
Reba decided to get baptized while she was still part of the Singing McEntires. One night, while they were going to a gig, Reba spoke to her mother about her plan to tell everyone in the place they were going to perform at to attend church on Sunday morning. She then learned an important lesson from her mother that she would never forget for as long as she lives. Jacqueline, her mother, asked Reba how she could tell those people weren’t already going to church. At that time, Reba had said in interviews that she was taught something extremely valuable. She was quoted to have said, “That was my first lesson on passing judgment. You don’t know what other people do. You don’t know their heart.”
Faith
