{"id":33587,"date":"2025-10-29T06:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=33587"},"modified":"2025-10-29T05:52:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:52:55","slug":"reba-mcentire-mourns-brandon-blackstock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/10\/reba-mcentire-mourns-brandon-blackstock\/","title":{"rendered":"Reba McEntire Mourns Brandon Blackstock\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reba McEntire\u00a0became emotional on Monday night\u2019s (October 27) episode of\u00a0The Voice\u00a0while remembering her late stepson,\u00a0Brandon Blackstock, who died at 48 on August 7 from melanoma, a form of skin cancer.<\/p>\n<p>After Team Reba contestant\u00a0Aubrey Nicole\u00a0performed\u00a0Martina McBride\u2019s song, &#8220;I&#8217;m Gonna Love You Through It,&#8221;\u00a0which is about a couple facing a cancer diagnosis, McEntire tearfully reflected,\u00a0&#8220;I lost my oldest son because he did not win with cancer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 70-year-old country superstar went on to praise the performance.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That was a real reminder that life goes on, and we sing songs about it so we can remember the ones around us that we love so much, that we lean on at times like this. You did a great job.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nicole chose McBride\u2019s song to honour her own father, who was previously diagnosed with cancer but is now thankfully in remission.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pTEBCLCVtb8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Voice ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":31885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[6639,361,507,786],"class_list":["post-33587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-brandon-blackstock","tag-reba","tag-reba-mcentire","tag-the-voice"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 01:26:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/10\/reba-mcentire-mourns-brandon-blackstock\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33588,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33587\/revisions\/33588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}