Barbara Mandrell was born in Houston on Christmas Day 1948. A musical prodigy, she was performing steel guitar on national television as a young girl and toured in a family band before launching the solo career that made her one of country music's biggest stars of the late 1970s and 1980s.
Hits like "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed" and "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right" carried her to back-to-back CMA Entertainer of the Year awards in 1980 and 1981, the first artist to win it twice in a row. Her NBC variety show, Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters, made her a household name well beyond country radio. She was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2009.
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