Country music legend Loretta Lynn dies at age 90

Loretta Lynn, a country music icon for six decades, died Tuesday at the age of 90.

Lynn’s family confirmed her death in a post on social media.

A statement from the family of Loretta Lynn.

"Our precious mom, Loretta Lynn, passed away peacefully this morning, October 4th, in her sleep at home at her beloved ranch in Hurricane Mills.” The family of Loretta Lynn.

— Loretta Lynn (@LorettaLynn) October 4, 2022

The daughter of a Kentucky coal miner, Lynn launched her country music career in the early 1960s. She wrote songs about sex and love, cheating husbands, divorce and birth control and sometimes got in trouble with radio programmers for material from which even rock performers once shied away.

She had hits such as “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)”, “Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)”, “One’s on the Way”, “Fist City”, and “Coal Miner’s Daughter.”

In 1980, the film Coal Miner’s Daughter was made based on her life.

Lynn was the first woman ever named entertainer of the year at country music’s two major awards shows, first by the Country Music Association in 1972 and then by the Academy of Country Music three years later.

The Academy of Country Music chose her as the artist of the decade for the 1970s, and she was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988.

Long after her commercial peak, Lynn won two Grammys in 2005 for her album “Van Lear Rose.”

— With files from The Associated Press