Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barbara Mandrell brought her Las Vegas revue, "The Lady Is a Champ," to Nashville’s TPAC in August 1983. The show was also taped ...

Thanks to a string of hit singles and a popular television variety series, vocalist Barbara Mandrell was arguably the biggest female star in country music in the late ’70s and early ’80s. Born the ...

Barbara Mandrell was born on this day in 1948. Raised in Houston, Texas, Mandrell had an early start in music. Her childhood virtuosity would eventually make her a multi-hyphenate country superstar, ...