Barbara Mandrell
- MatchBarbara Mandrell
- 100%Billy Dean
- 81%Steve Wariner
- 79%Chely Wright
- 77%Gene Watson
- 74%Ronnie Milsap
- 74%Suzy Bogguss
- 70%Patty Loveless
- 69%Bill Anderson
- 66%Aaron Tippin
- 64%Lorrie Morgan
Biography
25 December 1948, Houston, Texas, USA. Raised in Oceanside, near Los Angeles, California, Mandrell comes from a musical family: her father, Irby, sang and played guitar and her mother, Mary, played piano and taught music. At the age of 12, Mandrell demonstrated the steel guitar at a national convention and then worked in Las Vegas with Joe Maphis and Tex Ritter. By her teens, she also played saxophone, guitar, banjo and bass. Her parents formed the Mandrells with herself and two boys, one of... Read more