Country music pioneer Loretta Lynn dies aged 90 - GulfToday

Country music pioneer Loretta Lynn dies aged 90

  • 04 Oct 2022
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Singer, songwriter Loretta Lynn performs onstage in Dover, Delaware. File/AFP

Loretta Lynn, America's groundbreaking country titan, infidelity and pregnancy touched the nerve of a nation, has died, US media reported on Tuesday. She was 90 years old.

A family statement obtained by the Los Angeles Times said the beloved songwriter died of natural causes.

Lynn saw a number of her edgy tracks banned by country music stations, but over the course of more than six decades in the business, she became a standard-bearer of the genre and its most decorated female artist ever.

Agence France-Presse

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