As far as Reba McEntire is concerned, Brandon Blackstock was her son. One of McEntire's five stepchildren , Brandon was in his early teens when the country music star married his father, music producer and manager Narvel Blackstock. "I don't consider Brandon, Chassidy, and Shawna stepchildren ... I claim them all," McEntire said in an interview with The Boot in 2010 — and not even her 2015 divorce from Narvel could change that. It's also worth noting that McEntire's one and only biological child, Shelby Blackstock, is Brandon's younger half-brother. With that in mind, McEntire was understandably devastated when Brandon, ex-husband of another musical icon Kelly Clarkson, died at the age of 48 in August 2025. Several months later, McEntire shared some heartbreaking revelations about he

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