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A "Coal Miners Daughter" born in Kentucky, Loretta Lynn became the most culturally significant female singer-songwriter in country music history.

Inducted into more music Halls of Fame than any female recording artist to date, Loretta Lynn (b. April 14, 1932) has earned four Grammy Awards, Kennedy Center Honors and a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and sold more than 45 million records worldwide. Still going strong after more than 50 years, “The Queen of Country Music” is now the subject of the new documentary AMERICAN MASTERS “Loretta Lynn: Still A Mountain Girl.” The world premiere broadcast was the same day as the release of Lyn...

Tributes are being paid to Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out o..

Loretta Lynn, America's groundbreaking country titan whose frank lyricism delving into women's experiences with sex, infidelity and touched the nerve of a nation, has died.

She died at her home.

Loretta Lynn died Tuesday at age 90. See how the country music industry and other stars are remembering the iconic singer.

Jack White has shared a tribute to Loretta Lynn, who died Tuesday at age 90. The White Stripes rocker collaborated with the country legend on her 2004 album Van

While Lynn claimed not to be a ‘big fan of women’s liberation’, her songs told a different story, documenting female pleasure, pain and physicality

Loretta Lynn and Jack White collaborated on Lynns 2004 album Van Lear Rose, and the pair brought their duet Portland, Oregon to David Letterman that year.

Loretta Lynn, the "Coal Miners Daughter" whose gutsy lyrics and twangy, down-home vocals made her a queen of country music for seven decades, has died. She was 90.