{"id":43784,"date":"2025-05-07T08:30:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T12:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=43784"},"modified":"2025-05-07T07:19:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T11:19:15","slug":"reba-mcentire-celebrating-50-years-in-country-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/05\/reba-mcentire-celebrating-50-years-in-country-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Reba McEntire Celebrating 50 Years In Country Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reba McEntire is set to host the ACM Awards on Thursday, and she&#8217;s also celebrating her 50-year anniversary in the country music industry.<\/p>\n<p>She was first discovered by country star Red Steagall, who saw her perform the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Red then helped Reba record her first demo and eventually get signed to Mercury Records.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/reba-mcentire-reflects-on-50th-anniversary-in-country-exclusive-11698575\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In the 50 plus years since,<\/a> Reba has won 16 ACM Awards, 15 American Music Awards, 9 People&#8217;s Choice Awards, 6 CMAs, and 3 Grammys.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s also a TV star and one of the best hosts out there.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DI2BratRdvl\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reba McEntire Is Celebrating 50 Years in Country Music","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":43785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[467,1139,6255,84,720,6254],"class_list":["post-43784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-acm-awards","tag-country-music","tag-mercury-records","tag-reba","tag-reba-mcentire","tag-red-steagall"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 17:44:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/05\/reba-mcentire-celebrating-50-years-in-country-music\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43786,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43784\/revisions\/43786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}