Loretta Lynn, country music star, dead at 90

Country music queen Loretta Lynn has died. The “Coal Miner’s Daughter” singer was 90 years old.

Lynn’s family said in a statement to The Associated Press she died peacefully on Tuesday at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

The family also asked for privacy as they grieve and said a memorial will be announced at a later date.

Lynn launched her career in the early 1960s with songs that reflected her pride in her rural Kentucky background. The Country Music Hall of Famer wrote fearlessly about sex and love, cheating husbands, divorce and birth control.

Other hits include “You Ain’t Woman Enough,” “The Pill,” “Don’t Come Home a Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind),” “Rated X” and “You’re Looking at Country.”

Lynn was the first woman to ever be named entertainer of the year at the Country Music Association in 1972 and by the Academy of Country Music in 1975.

She and her husband, O.V. “Mooney” Lynn, were married nearly 50 years before he died in 1996. They had six children: Betty, Jack, Ernest and Clara, and twins Patsy and Peggy.

She had 17 grandchildren and four step-grandchildren.