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Loretta Lynn, who rose from a hardscrabble upbringing to become the most culturally significant female artist in country music history, died Tuesday at 90.

The country star's fearless songs about the Pill, motherhood and the Vietnam war got her banned from radio – but she wasn't easily silenced

Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and…

Country music icon Loretta Lynn passed away Tuesday morning. The "Coal Miners Daughter" singer had a prolific career. What you need to know.

In a statement shared on Twitter, Lynn's family said she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

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Loretta Lynn, who rose from a hardscrabble upbringing to become the most culturally significant female artist in country music history, died Tuesday at 90.

Lynn already had four children before launching her career in the early 1960s, and her songs reflected her pride in her rural Kentucky background.

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She was 90 years old.