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Reba Enters Country Hall of Fame

            It was only fitting on a night when women received their due at the Country Music Hall of Fame that Reba McEntire would take a moment to give special thanks to fellow inductee Jean Shepard.

            “Thank you for coming before me  and paving the way for girl singers,” a teary McEntire said to Shepard after being inducted by Dolly Parton. “I couldn’t have done it without you and I’m honored beyond words to be inducted with you.”

            Those two pioneering women and Bobby Braddock, an iconic song writer whose inclusion begins to right a wrong, were welcomed in a star-studied and humor-filled ceremony at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

            Parton surprised McEntire with her appearance and celebrated the redheaded spithre who has had more than 50 top 10 hits and more No.1 albums than any other female country artist. “Reba and I kind of feel like sisters,” Parton said. “We both through the years have had enough hair to stuff a mattress.”

            The 56-year-old McEntire has been a consistent force in Nashville for three decades and remains one of country music’s  most recognized and beloved stars. She’s been name-checked as an influence  in both music and business by virtually every young female country singer of note.

            She started charting songs in 1976 and rode a string of No.1 hits to a Country Music Association entertainer of the year award in 1986 and remains a presence at the top of the charts on every nominations list. She also succeeded on television, where her self-titled sitcom still runs daily in syndication, on Broadway and is the face of several product lines.

            She was celebrated by fellow Oklahomas Garth Brooks, who sang her Grammy-winning Whoever’s in New England and Vince Gill, who sang Somebody Should Leave. And Martina McBride and Kelly Clarkson performed Does He Love You? Together in one of the evening’s more powered performance’s.

            McEntire, whose induction has been colored by her father Clarks’s recent illness, choked up brieflytalking about the championship rodeo rider. She said she once asked him what was more fun, the winning or the journey to get there. He told her it was the journey, of course.

            “I agree with dad 100 percent,” she said. Without Sherpad, the path McEntire and today’s legion of hit making women would have had it much tougher. Shepard broke into country music’s male dominated world in the 1950’s ny kicking down the door with an outsized personality  and voice to match.

            Of women in country music at the time , the 77-year-old Shepard said : “There wasn’t none of us. I was happy to do my part. I hung in there like a hair on a grilled cheese.”

            Shepard, one of 10 children born to a poor sharecropping family in Oklahoma that eventually moved to California, sang from the female point of view. Her honkytonk style and plain-spoken approach won her fans “ignored in Washington and dismissed by Madison Avenue,” said hall of fame director Kyle Young, who served as the evening’s host.

The Passive Voice Sentence :

·         Reba Enters Country Hall of Fame

            Country Hall of Fame is entered by Reba

·         A teary McEntire said to Shepard after being inducted by Dolly Parton.

·         Parton surprised McEntire with her appearance and celebrated the redheaded spithre who has had more than 50 top 10 hits and more No.1 albums than any other female country artist.

McEntire with her appereanceand celebrated the readhed spitfire who has had more than 50 top 10 hits and more No.1 albums than any other female country artist is surprised by Parton.

·         She’s been name-checked as an influence  in both music and business by virtually every young female country singer of note

·         She was celebrated by fellow Oklahomas Garth Brooks,

·         Oklahomas Garth Brooks, who sang her Grammy-winning Whoever’s in New England

Grammy-winning’Whoever’s in New England was sang by Garth Brooks

·         Vince Gill, who sang Somebody Should Leave

Somebody Should Leave was sang by Vince Gill

·         Martina McBride and Kelly Clarkson performed Does He Love You? Together in one of the evening’s more powered performance’s

Does He Love You? Together in one of the evening’s more powerfull performances was performed by Martina McBride and Kelly Clarkson