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Reba McEntire

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Superstar Reba McEntire has been a star on top for many of the 35 years of her career in country music. Not only has she collected more Top 10 hits than any other female in the genre, she also holds the record for being named top female vocalist at multiple awards shows - seven instances at the ACM Awards, 12 at the American Music Awards and four consecutive times at the CMA Awards. Reba recently had the biggest hit of her entire career - "Consider Me Gone" - earlier this year and was ranked 3rd among Billboard's Top 25 Country Artists of the Past 25 Years list. She's also conquered the worlds of acting with a hit sitcom, has her own clothing, shoes and house wares lines and appeared on Broadway. Is there anything this woman can't do?

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