K.T. Oslin, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer, dies at 78
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FILE - K.T. Oslin appears at the 31st Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 23, 1989. Oslin, who hit it big with the 1987 hit â80â²s Ladiesâ and won three Grammy awards, has died. She was 78. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â Singer-songwriter K.T. Oslin has died at the age of 78.
The Country Music Association called Oslin, who died Monday, one of the most iconic and defining voices in Country Music.
Music Row Magazine reported that Oslin, who had been living in an assisted living facility since 2016, was diagnosed with COVID-19 last week, but it s unclear at this time if that was a contributing factor in her death. She was diagnosed with Parkinsonâs disease in 2015.
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K.T. Oslin, known for country hits like Do Ya and 80 s Ladies, has died. She was 78.
Oslin s friend Robert K. Oermann reported her death on Music Row. Oermann said she died in suburban Nashville, Tenn., on Monday morning. She is survived by her aunt, Reba, who told Oerman about her niece s death.
The singer was suffering from Parkinson s disease and had been residing in an assisted-living facility since 2016, according to Oermann.
Oermann said that last week, Oslin, who had triple bypass surgery in 1995, tested positive for coronavirus.
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2020 couldn’t leave well enough alone…K.T. Oslin has passed, she topped the country charts in the late ’80s with her unique approach to country music and won several Grammys, CMA and ACM Awards along the way. The song that put her on the map was “80’s Ladies,” it won her the Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal performance and was named the CMA’s Song of the Year. Two number-one hits followed: in 2015, the same year she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. KT Oslin was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018. K.T. Oslin was 78.
K.T. Oslin, a witty and sophisticated country star who found both critical and commercial success in the late 1980s, died Monday in suburban Nashville. She was 78.
Her death was confirmed by the Country Music Association, which didn’t state a cause, though the Nashville trade publication Music Row said Oslin had Parkinson’s disease and had been living in an assisted-living facility since 2016. Last week, Music Row added, Oslin tested positive for COVID-19.
The first female songwriter to win the CMA’s coveted song of the year award which she took in 1988 with her hit “80’s Ladies” Oslin made polished, lightly twangy music about women’s lives with a keen eye on the complexities of work, family and romance. In “80’s Ladies,” which helped drive her album of the same name to No. 1 on Billboard’s country chart, she tracked the intersecting paths of “three little girls from school” as they approach middle age: