The song is nominated for Best Original Song at the ceremony.
Reba McEntire joins the cast of the 94th Academy Awards this Sunday (27). The country superstar has been confirmed for performing the Diane Warren song "Samahau You Do" from the film Four Good Days, which has been nominated for Best Original Song.
It is one of four compositions nominated in the category that will be featured on the show, which airs in the US on ABC at 8 p.m. ET. As mentioned, Billie Eilish and Phineas will deliver "No Time to Die" from the James Bond film of the same name. Beyoncé is to sing "Be Alive" by King Richard, and Sebastian Journey will perform "Dos Orugitas" from Encanto.
Billboard reported that Van Morrison, who wrote and performed the other shortlisted song in the category "Down to Joy" from Belfast, was asked to perform it by the Academy, but would not attend.
This isn't McEntire's first time as an Oscar artist: In 1991, he sang "I'm Checkin' Out" from the film Postcards from the Ages. Shel Silverstein's composition was nominated as Best Original Song that year, but lost to "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)" with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim from the film Dick Tracy.
McEntire's new gospel album My Chains Are Gone will be released tomorrow in a CD/DVD package featuring some of his favorite hymns. It featured guest appearances by Lauren Daigle, Isaac, Kelly Clarkson and Trisha Yearwood, the latter two both singing on "Softly and Tenderly" with Reba.
The artist completed the Reba in Concert tour last weekend with a show in Rosemont, IL on March 19. Before that concert, McEntire told the Chicago Sun-Times of Tour: "For all this joy and fun and applause and thanks, it's just overpowering. It's, sometimes, more than I can understand.
"Therefore, I always pray, 'Holy Spirit, walk for me, speak for me, speak for me, sing for me. And if there's anyone in the audience who needs you, let me be that medium.' I take that job very seriously."