Loretta Lynn, America’s Giant with candid lyrics that delve into a woman’s experience of infidelity and traumatic pregnancy in a country. has passed away. She is 90 years old.
her family It said in a statement sent to AFP that she “died peacefully in her sleep” at a ranch in Tennessee on Tuesday morning.Country music star Loretta Lynn dies at 90.
Lynn saw a number of her groundbreaking songs banned by country music stations. But over six decades in this business She has become the standard bearer of the most acclaimed genre and female artist ever.
Lynn was born on April 14, 1932 in a small town in Kentucky. Lynn was the eldest daughter in a poor family of eight children. It was a childhood that she immortalized in her famous path. ‘Daughter of a Coal Miner’ – List of the best songs of all time
“We’re poor but we have love / That’s the only thing I’m sure of,” Lynn sings a hit recorded in the 1970s – later in the soundtrack to a 1980 film about her life, starring Sissy Spacee. A, who won an Oscar for the role.
The 15-year-old artist was married to Oliver Vanetta Lynn, with whom she remained married for nearly 50 years until his death in 1996.
They moved to a logging community in Washington state. And Lynn gave birth to four children before the age of 20, adding twins to the family shortly after.
his wife’s voice lover Her husband bought a guitar for Lynn in the early 1950s.
Self-taught musicians write lyrics with pen inspired by early experiences. of her as a married woman and her tumultuous relationship. This marks the start of a prolific career that will see artists release dozens of albums.
She started her own band, Loretta and the Trailblazers, and started playing the bar before cutting her first record- ‘I’m a brothel girl’ in 1960.