NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Loretta Lynn, who rose from a hardscrabble upbringing to become the most culturally significant female singer-songwriter in country music history, has died. She was 90.
Loretta Lynn broke one of country music's highest glass ceilings on Oct. 16, 1972, when she became the first female artist to win Entertainer of the Year at the CMA Awards. The country icon was up ...
Loretta Lynn is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to fame in the early 1960s, when songs like "Success," "Before I'm Over You" and "Blue Kentucky Girl" landed her on the country music ...
Lynn married at 15 had her first child shortly after, but she took up playing music and saw enormous success. She eventually had six children. "I don't think I realized when I was a kid what she ...
Theirs is one of the longest marriages in country music — since 1971 — right behind Brenda Lee’s and Dolly Parton’s. Decca envisioned Gayle as a Loretta Lynn clone. It didn’t work.