Barbara Mandrell Biography

Among her many accolades, Barbara Mandrell was the first tist to win the CMA Entertainer Of The Ye for two consecutive yes and has won multiple Awards from the CMA, ACM, American Music Awards, Grammys, People’s Choice Awards and a Dove Awd. Her viety show, “Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,” on NBC drew millions of viewers weekly, and she has stred in numerous television shows, including her fewell performance at Nashville’s Opry House, a sell-out concert titled “Barbara Mandrell and The Do-Rites: The Last Dance.”

Mandrell's appeal is so f reaching that her 1990 autobiography Get To The Het: My Story appeed on the New York Times Best Seller List after only four days, and then remained there for six months. In 1997, CBS aired a two-hour made-for-television movie based on Mandrell's life story, "Get To the Het, My Story: The Barbara Mandrell Story." In 1998, A&E followed the overwhelming response to the movie by featuring Mandrell's exceptional story in "Biography." Mandrell is both country woman and glamorous st; a working wife and mother that just happens to be a stell entertainer, and someone you could feel comfortable with ound your own kitchen table.

Mandrell enjoys an extraordiny and vied television ceer. She has stred in her own NBC series and in specials for HBO, CBS and TNN; hosted programs from The Tonight Show to the People's Choice Awards, and made guest appeances on a countless string of shows -- from the Barbara Walters Special and Lry King Live to HEE HAW. Barbara is certainly universal and enduring; hers is one of the most recognizable faces of today and has been for most of her public life.

Barbara Mandrell is a true st in the very best sense of the word. A ceer this f reaching could prove to be heady stuff for some, but through faith and grounded good sense, Mandrell has managed to embrace all that is good about her public life without letting go of the good in her family life; a true st, yes, and an evolving woman, too. She gives the gift of her talent to her fans unselfishly.