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Loretta Lynn, the country music legend and \
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, who died Oct. 4, grew up in poverty in eastern Kentucky and went on to have 16 No. 1 hits. Her life story was portrayed in the 1980 film Coal Miner's Daughter. Originally broadcast in 2010.
Loretta Lynn, the country music legend and "Coal Miner's Daughter" whose frank songs reflected life and love as a woman in Appalachia, has died at 90.