Reba McEntire revealed her mother's death in 2020 was so traumatic that it nearly caused her to end her music career
Singer Reba McEntire and Jacqueline Smith attend Muhammad Ali's Celebrity Fight Night XXII at the JW Marriott Phoenix Desert Ridge Resort & Spa on April 8, 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona.
“Oh, I didn’t want to . I told my little sister Susie when we were working at the house, I said, ‘I don’t know if I want to sing anymore.’ She said, ‘Why?’ I said, ‘Because I always sang for Mama,’” McEntire, 68, said during a Tuesday, October 10, appearance on the Today show.“Mama was the one that inspired us kids, taught us kids how to sing, took us to our singing gigs and was our biggest cheerleader,” The Voice coach recalled.
The 3-time Grammy winner will release her 33rd album, Not That Fancy, on Friday, October 13. The project includes a song inspired by her mother titled, “Seven Minutes in Heaven.” The country legend has been dating actor Rex Linn since 2020. They met in 1991 and reconnected following the death of her mother. During her appearance on Today, Reba shared that Linn was the key to her coping with her mom’s passing.
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