The city of Nashville is located in Tennessee. The daughter of a coal miner who overcame poverty to become a pillar of country music has died. Her age was 90.
Lynn died at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, her family said in a statement.
The family said that their mother died peacefully this morning in her sleep at home in Hurricane Mills. As they grieve, they asked for privacy and a memorial will be announced later.
Lynn had four children before starting her career, and her songs reflected her pride in her Kentucky background.
A contrast to the stereotypical image of most female country singers was created by her as a writer. Sex and love, cheating husbands, divorce and birth control were just some of the topics written about by the Country Music Hall of Fame member.
Her biggest hits were in the 1960s and '70s. She appeared in floor-length, wide gowns that were created by her personal assistant and designer.
She was rewarded for being honest and unique in country music. She was the first woman to win entertainer of the year at the Country Music Association and the Academy of Country Music.
Lynn said that she wanted to hear what other women wanted to hear. I wrote for the women. The men liked it as well.
She was able to reach her widest audience with the release of her autobiographical "Coal Miner's Daughter" in 1969.
She sang, "We were poor but we had love, that's the one thing Daddy made sure of."
The title of her 1976 book was turned into a movie in 1980. Sissy Spacek won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Lynn in the movie.
Lynn won two Grammys in 2005 for her album, which featured 13 songs she wrote, including "Portland, Oregon" about a drunken one-night stand. Jack White produced the album and played guitar on the song.
She said she was born near the coal mining company town of Van Lear in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. There wasn't a butcher hollow. She told a reporter that she used the names of the families that lived there to make the name.
Her father played the banjo, her mother played the guitar and she was a fan of the Carter Family songs.
She told the AP that she was singing when she was a baby. Daddy used to come out on the porch and sing and play with the babies. He would tell Lorretta to shut her mouth. There are people all over this holler. I asked my father what difference it made. All of them are my cousins.
She wrote in her book that she was 13 when she married Oliver Lynn, but state records show she was 15. Tommy Lee Jones was in the movie.
She was encouraged to sing by her husband, who she called "doolittle". She was able to get a recording contract with Decca Records and perform on the Grand Ole Opry stage. Lynn wrote her first hit song in 1960.
One of the most popular duos in country music with hits such as "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man" and "After the Fire is Gone" were formed with her. Her duets were always mainstream country and not pop-tinged.
She was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988 after being chosen as the artist of the decade for the 1970s.
Lynn threatens a hair-pulling fistfight if another woman won't stay away from her man in "Fist City." There is a strong- willed but traditional country woman in Lynn songs. Lynn wrote about how she was tired of being trapped at home to take care of babies in her song "The Pill."
She moved to Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, in the 1990s, where she set up a ranch complete with a replica of her childhood home and a museum that is popular with tourists. There are also the dresses she wore.
Lynn knew that her songs were trailblazing, but she was just writing the truth that so many rural women like her experienced.
I knew that other women were going through the same thing. She told The AP in 1995 that she wasn't the only one who lived that life.
Lynn scored a multi-album deal with Legacy Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, in the summer of 2014). She was forced to delay her shows due to a stroke.
She and her husband were married before he died. There were six children, Betty, Jack, Ernest, Clara, and twins. She had 18 children and four step-children.
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