Reba McEntire

She's got the photos to prove it.

The 1990s changed everything about country music.

In the notoriously volatile entertainment business, no one can argue with having an education to fall back on.

A photo gallery of country stars' yearbook pictures.

Can we just skip the other holidays and start with Christmas music?

McEntire has earned her status among the genre's icons.

McEntire covered "Respect" on her 'Reba' album.

Get ready to laugh at these now-vintage classics.

The '80s were a transitional decade for country music: a time when artists could try out different styles and approaches -- and, by extension, adopt new traditions that would come to reverberate in the '90s and beyond.

Many of our favorite country stars have been in the public eye for multiple decades, which means that some of them have changed a lot since when they first hit the stage.