Reba McEntire displays on her legacy in a wide-ranging chat with Sunday TODAY set to air April 23.
The subject of McEntire’s pioneering path because the Queen of Nation comes up when host Willie Geist asks in a teaser clip, “What do you concentrate on the time period ‘icon’? Or ‘legend’? Or ‘trailblazer’? While you hear these issues? They’re all true. What do they imply to you once you hear these? As a result of these are phrases folks use once they speak about you.”
Nevertheless, the Reba star took the compliments with a trademark dose of humility and handed the titles on to the ladies who got here earlier than her as a substitute.
“Effectively, after I hear these phrases, I believe Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Barbara Mandrell, Anne Murray, Minnie Pearl. All of these girls are the pioneers, the icons, the legends that I obtained to study from,” McEntire responds.
To not be diverted, Geist rightly factors out that generations of upcoming expertise in Nashville look to the “Fancy” singer with the identical reverence she offers to the likes of Parton and Wynette. “It’s a cool feeling,” McEntire admits together with her signature Oklahoma drawl. “It’s an enormous accountability as a result of I undoubtedly wish to — in my span that I get to do that — I wish to discover methods of doing it higher so it can make it simpler on them. Then it’s their accountability to maneuver ahead, discover a higher means of doing one thing for the folks arising subsequent behind them. So we’ve all obtained tasks. And it’s at all times to make it higher.”
Whereas the remainder of McEntire’s interview gained’t air till Sunday, she additionally lately revealed that she turned down the massive crimson spinning chair on The Voice that finally went to OG coach Blake Shelton.
Take a look at a preview of McEntire’s forthcoming sit-down with Sunday TODAY.
