10 Things You Didn’t Know About Reba McEntire: No. 7

7. Faith Hill auditioned for her band, but ...

She didn't get the job. Hill was looking to be a backup singer, but McEntire says she didn't think the future star was right for the gig. It ended up being a life-saving rejection: Paula Kay Evans was the singer who got the job, and she was one of McEntire's eight band and crew members killed in a plane crash near San Diego, Calif., in March of 1991. Hill says she doesn't think fate had anything to do with it: "I wasn't a great background singer, and I didn't get the part," she tells Larry King.