Singer Loretta Lynn, an icon of country music for almost six decades, passed away this Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, at 90 years.
“Our precious mom, Loretta Lynn, passed away peacefully this morning, October 4, in her sleep at her home on her beloved ranch in Hurricane Mills”, reads a statement from the artist’s family picked up by US media.
Lynn’s style as a singer-songwriter, with very intimate lyrics about her life, about of poverty or the struggle of women, made her one of the greatest references in the history of country music with a career that lasted from 1200 until practically his last years of life.
A native of a town located in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, the country star always showed a predilection for crudely portraying the reality he had lived through.
In fact, its l Many personal reasons were reflected in “Coal Miner’s Daughter” (daughter of a coal miner, in Spanish), a song that raised him to glory since its release in 1968.
This song was released two years after his autobiography homonymous, which was so well received that it would be brought to the big screen in 1980 by the actress Sissy Spacek, who she won an Oscar for her portrayal of Lynn herself.
Themes such as sex, love, infidelity, divorce or birth rates also inspired her groundbreaking songs in the sixties and seventies, when not even not even other more open genres dared to talk about it.
Some of their greatest hits in the time were “You Ain’t Woman Enough” (1966), “Don’t Come Home a Drinkin” (1967), “Fist City” (1971), or “One’s On The Way” (1972), among many others, produced by her former personal assistant and designer Tim Cobb.
Furthermore, Lynn was the first woman named artist of the year in the two main awards galas of her favorite genre; first by the Country Music Association in 1972 and then by the Academy of Country Music in 1975.
In 1998, “Coal Miner’s Daughter” became his first recording inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Lynn’s legacy is made up of 50 studio albums and 36 compilation albums over six decades of career crowned by three Grammy awards.
Two of these awards would come in 1998, long after his moment of greatest splendor, for his album “Van Lear Rose” and in 2005 he received the award for trajectory of the Recording Academy.
During her last years, the artist continued writing and in 2014 she signed a contract to produce several albums with Legacy Records (Sony Music).
Just three years later, a stroke forced him to cancel all his concerts that season and his figure gradually moved away from the public sphere until now.
Lynn was married almost years to Oliver” Doolittle” Lynn, a country music talent manager who passed away in 1996 and with whom he had six children.
They reported Tuesday that they will give more details about the funeral soon and asked fans that any donations go to the Loretta Lynn Foundation, dedicated to promoting the history of country music for cultural purposes.