Country Music Star Loretta Lynn Dies at Age 90

🎸Country music icon Loretta Lynn died at the age of 90 at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

According to a statement provided to The Associated Press (AP) by Lynn’s family, the singer, known as the “coal miner’s daughter and country queen,” passed in her sleep.

“Our precious mom, Loretta Lynn, passed away peacefully this morning, October 4th, in her sleep at home in her beloved ranch in Hurricane Mills,” the family said in a statement.

Representatives for the family also asked for privacy as those close to the late singer grieve her loss, and they promised that an announcement about her memorial will be forthcoming.

The singer-songwriter, who wrote about poverty in Appalachia, began her career in the early 1960s when she already had four children. In contrast to other female country singers, she had a reputation and professional appearance of being tough and defiant.

During her career she wrote about rural life, divorce, cheating husbands, and birth control, broaching topics that even rock performers of her time avoided.

In 2016 Lynn said in an interview, per the AP, “It was what I wanted to hear and what I knew other women wanted to hear, too. I didn’t write for the men; I wrote for us women. And the men loved it, too.”

As AP writes, “She was the first woman ever named entertainer of the year at the genre’s two major awards shows, first by the