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Loretta Lynn (born Loretta Webb April 14, 1934) is an American Country music singer-songwriter and was one of the leading country female vocalists during the 1960s and 1970s and overall is revered as a country icon. Loretta Lynn is one of the classic country singers. During the '60s and '70s, she ruled the charts, racking up over 70 hits as a solo artist and a duet partner. Lynn helped forge the way for strong, independent women in country music. With a hardscrabble upbringing, a devoted yet troubled marriage, chronic illness and exhaustion due to her hectic pace, and several tragedies through the years, Lynn's own life often provided the grist for her popular tunes. Her best-selling 1976 autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter , was made into a hit Oscar-winning film starring Sissy Spacek and Tommy Lee Jones. Though she was out of the loop for a few years while taking care of her husband, who died in 1996, Lynn returned to touring in 1998. In 2000 she released her first album since 1988 to contain original solo material. Loretta Lynn has acquired 16 No. 1 Country hits over the course of her career, both as a solo artist and as a duet artist.
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