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Reba Slated To Sing National Anthem At Super Bowl LVIII

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

Reba McEntire is slated to perform the National Anthem for Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas. The Super Bowl will take place at Allegiant Stadium on Sunday, February 11, and will air on CBS.

The performance will mark a full-circle moment for Reba. She was discovered 50 years ago at the 1974 National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma singing the National Anthem.

Reba said, “I’m honored to be part of something as big and historic as the Super Bowl coming to Las Vegas for the first time. 2024 marks 50 years since I was discovered singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo, and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate that anniversary.”

Along with Reba, pre-game talent for the Super Bowl includes Post Malone and Andra Day, with Usher performing at halftime.

The country icon recently wrapped her role as coach on Season 24 of NBC’s The Voice. She is set to return for Season 25.

RELATED: Reba Answers Fellow Artists’ Burning Questions

Reba chatted with CMT recently and shared with them one of her most embarrassing moments on stage. CMT posted the fun interview clip on their Instagram.

She quipped, “Oh gosh, how much time do you have? It was the early ’80s, and I was headlining. I was going to make my way to stage right, and blue lights were gonna come on.”

She continued, “I was gonna walk back on stage and sing ‘Sweet Dreams’ acapella. I did not remember this monitor being there on the floor, so when I was shuffling my way off stage right, I shuffled my toes right underneath that monitor and fell over on top of it.”

She continued, “I crawled off stage and ripped my britches, but the show must go on, so I dusted myself off and put my hand over where I ripped my britches. I came back out and did the song, and nobody knew the difference.”

Five Reba Music Videos That Are Classics

  • "Is There Life Out There" (1991)

    Reba plays a waitress in this dramatic music video that was also a TV movie. The story and drama of this video are lovely, and this journalist also has a soft spot for it. Full disclosure: I was an extra in the film and video as a graduate in cap and gown. It was filmed at Vanderbilt’s campus in Nashville. This is the video Reba won the ACM Award in 1991 for Video of the Year. Singer Huey Lewis stars as her husband in the music video. In the 1994 TV movie, actor Keith Carradine plays that part.

  • "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" (1991)

    This is another music video that could be a movie. Reba notes it as one of her favorite songs. In the video, Reba plays her character as an older woman as she tells the story. Her character is the little sister and convicted killer in the sad story.

  • "Whoever's in New England" (1986)

    In 1987, McEntire won the GRAMMY Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for this song. It was her first GRAMMY win. The music video was one of Reba’s first to really show her dramatic actress side.

  • "Does He Love You" with Dolly Parton (2021)

    Reba did this song and a music video for it in 1993 with Linda Davis. However, in 2021, she made music history when she redid the duet with country icon Dolly Parton. It was the first time the two country Queens recorded a song together. Their performance of the song was nominated for a GRAMMY for Best Country Duo/Group Performance in 2022. The version of the song with Davis won the GRAMMY award for Best Country Vocal Collaboration in 1994.

  • "Fancy" (1991)

    This is Reba’s biggest hit and her most talked about music video. When Carrie Underwood scored her 15th number-one song on country radio “Church Bells,” in 2016, she recalled that when the song came out, she believed it was sort of a smaller version of Reba’s song.

    Underwood told me about it in a recent interview. “‘Church Bells’ is like ‘Fancy’s’ little sister (laughs) — Reba and ‘Fancy.’ And she gets out and makes a name for herself by, you know, she’s got her dancin’ dress and all that stuff. And this one she starts, you know, she’s young, she’s pretty, she’s poor — doin’ what she can to survive, meets a man that has a lot of wealth and is supposed to, you know, take care of her and get her out of this.”

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.

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