Loretta Lynn, country music's iconic 'Coal Miner's Daughter,' dead at 90
Loretta Lynn, who rose from a hardscrabble upbringing to become the most culturally significant female artist in country music history, died Tuesday at 90.
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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.
She was 90 years old.
Loretta Lynn, who rose from a hardscrabble upbringing to become the most culturally significant female artist in country music history, died Tuesday at 90.
In a statement shared on Twitter, Lynn's family said she died Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.