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The 90-year-old country music icon Loretta Lynn has passed away. Her songs about grief and poverty are among the genre's most beloved.

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Her family confirmed that Lynn passed away on October 4 at home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

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She reached the top of the US country charts 16 times starting in 1966 and was nominated for 18 Grammys, winning three of them.

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The fact that Lynn was one of eight siblings and the coal miner's daughter inspired her hallmark song, Coal Miner's Daughter, in the 1970s.

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She Was married with Oliver Lynn at age of 15.Oliver struggled with alcoholism and committed repeated adultery, yet the couple remained married for 48 years, until Oliver's death in 1996.

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Three of their six children were born before Lynn was 20. Four of Lynn's six children—Clara, Ernest, Peggy, and Patsy—remain alive today.

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Her 1976 autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter, was a bestseller, and the same-named film was based on her life.

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Sissy Spacek played Lynn in the film, which received seven Oscar nominations and won best actress for Spacek's work.

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I’m a Honky-Tonk Girl, Fist City,Rated X,The Pill are the Famous Albums Of Her Career.

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I’m a Honky-Tonk Girl, Fist City,Rated X,The Pill are the Famous Albums Of Her Career.

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Between 1964 and 1976, she maintained a high release frequency, releasing two to four albums a year on average.

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She had a friendship with Patsy Cline and collaborated on recordings with kd lang. After Cline died in a plane crash in 1963, she recorded an album in her honour.

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After slowing down in the middle of the 1980s, Lynn experienced a high-profile comeback in 2004 with the publication of the Jack White-produced album Van Lear Rose.

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