Country music legend Loretta Lynn died Tuesday, October 4, at her home in Tennessee, her family said in a statement to CNN. She was 90.
Born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, Lynn was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988. She is perhaps best known for the song "Coal Miner's Daughter." Other hits include "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl" and "You Ain't Woman Enough."
Performing professionally since the 1950s, Lynn has been nominated for 17 Grammy Awards and won four: three competitive and one honorary.
Lynn lived in poverty for much of her early life, began having kids by age 17 and spent years married to a man prone to drinking and philandering — all of which became material for her plainspoken songs. Lynn's life was rich with experiences most country stars of the time hadn't had for themselves, but her female fans knew them intimately.
"I wasn't the first woman in country music," she told Esquire in 2007. "I was just the first one to stand up there and say what I thought, what life was about."
