The “Coal Miner’s Daughter” Loretta Lynn died today at age 90.
The Queen of country music died peacefully a home said the family in a statement.
“Our precious mom, Loretta Lynn, passed away peacefully this morning, October 4th, in her sleep at home in her beloved ranch in Hurricane Mills,” the statement read.
Famously, the singer was known for writing songs about what she knew since she grew up in poverty, and married a hard-drinking man who cheated on her. Other women could identify with her.
“So when I sing those country songs about women struggling to keep things going, you could say I’ve been there,” she wrote in her first memoir, “Coal Miner’s Daughter.” “Like I say, I know what it’s like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.”