“But it also gave me something: a hard-won strength.” “Having to grow up as fast as I did when I got married took something away from me,” she noted in her second memoir, Still Woman Enough (2002). Her career was propelled by an indisputable musical talent, a strikingly photogenic presence and a formidable grit. Betty Davis: Free-spirited queen of funk who inspired music greats.Writing about women as they really lived – that was a breakthrough.” “Her songs were delivered from a distinctly female point of view, and that had not been done before, not the way she did it. “She was the groundbreaking female singer-songwriter in country music,” Robert Oermann, co-author of Finding Her Voice, a study of women in country music, told The Washington Post in 2003. She also helped redefine and broaden the appeal of country music.

A trailblazer for other female country performers, she was the first woman to win the Country Music Association’s entertainer of the year award, in 1972.

She was a teenage bride and mother, a country star and a grandmother by her early thirties. Lynn’s career was remarkable for its storybook ascent from hardscrabble origins. Loretta Lynn, a singer and songwriter whose rise from dire poverty in Kentucky coal country to the pinnacle of country music was chronicled in the best-selling memoir and movie Coal Miner's Daughter, and whose candid songs gave voice to the daily struggles of working-class women, has died aged 90.

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