Maria
Malta, a publicist for Sony Music, confirmed that the 85-year-old
singer and songwriter, Loretta Lynn has been hospitalized after having a
stroke.
Lynn’s
website says she is responsive and expected to make a full recovery. It
says Lynn has been advised by doctors to stay off the road while she
recuperates, and upcoming scheduled shows will be postponed.
Lynn
was born to a Kentucky coal miner, she had a string of hits starting in
the 1960s with the biographical “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” ”You Ain’t
Woman Enough,” ”The Pill,” and “One’s on the Way.” Her 1977
autobiography was made into a popular movie that brought an Oscar for
Sissy Spacek’s portrayal of the singer.
More
recently, Lynn won two Grammy Awards in 2005 for her album “Van Lear
Rose.” She continues to tour and record regularly, but had to postpone
shows last year after suffering injuries in a fall that required
surgery. She is set to release a new album this August, called “Wouldn’t
It Be Great,”
She had six children with her husband of 48 years, O.V. “Moonie” Lynn, who died in 1996.
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