Loretta Lynn (Webb; born April 14, 1932) multiple gold album American country music singer-songwriter whose work spans more than 50 years. She has received numerous awards and other accolades for her groundbreaking role in country music. In January 1948, shortly before she turned 16, Loretta married Oliver Doolittle Lynn (1926–1996). Their life together helped inspire the music she wrote. In 1953, Doolittle bought her a 17-dollar Harmony guitar. She taught herself to play. Over the following three years she worked to improve her guitar playing and with Doolittles encouragement started her own band, Loretta and the Trailblazers, with her brother, Jay Lee, playing lead guitar. She eventually cut her first record, Honky Tonk Girl, in February 1960. She became a part of the country music scene in Nashville in the 1960s, and in 1967 charted her first of 16 number-one hits (out of 70 charted songs as a solo artist and a duet partner) that include Dont Come Home A Drinkin (With Lovin on Your Mind), You Aint Woman Enough, Fist City, and Coal Miners Daughter. Lynn focused on blue-collar womens issues with themes about philandering husbands and persistent mistresses, inspired by issues she faced in her marriage. She pushed boundaries in the conservative genre of country music by singing about birth control (The Pill), repeated childbirth (Ones on the Way). Country music radio stations often refused to play her music, banning nine of her songs, but Lynn pushed on to become The First Lady of Country Music. In 1980, her best-selling 1976 autobiography Coal Miners Daughter was made into an Academy Award-winning film, Coal Miners Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones. Loretta Lynn has received numerous awards in country and American music; including being inducted into the Country Music Hall Of Fame in 1988, and the Song Writers Hall Of Fame in 2008. She was honored in 2010 at the Country Music Awards for her stellar career. Her most recent honor is the 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. Lynn has been a member of The Grand Ole Opry for 51 years, since joining on September 25, 1962. Her first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry was on October 15, 1960. In a press conference she said, Ive played in a million places, but the Grand Ole Opry is different. Lynn has recorded 70 albums, this includes 54 studio albums, 15 compilation albums, and 1 tribute album; and has sold over 48 million albums worldwide in her career. The quiver in her voice is one of a kind, her control is impeccable. The First lady of Country music, aint to shabby. Agree? youtu.be/maR95dCRF1k
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