BREAKING: Loretta Lynn, who was born a coal miner’s daughter before becoming one of the crown jewels of country music, has died at age 90.
Loretta Lynn, who was born a coal miner’s daughter before becoming one of the crown jewels of country music, has died.Lynn’s family said in a statement that she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.
There was plenty of talent in that family: Her younger sister went on to have an enormously successful country career of her own under the name Crystal Gayle. “Women found the champion with Loretta Lynn,” country music historian Bill Malone told NBC News. “They could identify with her success but they also independence of mind.
Lynn also proved unfazed by controversy, releasing songs glorifying sex , divorce , questioning the Vietnam War and most famously, “The Pill,” about birth control.
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