Loretta Lynn’s Country Music Dream
Introduction
You may think that every singer has a perfect life, well that’s not true. Loretta Lynn has had many bad experiences throughout her life.
Musical Career
Musical start. Lynn has had many struggles throughout her life that turned into accomplishments as she moved from Washington to Kentucky to Nashville to pursue her dream in music. Loretta Lynn’s childhood led her to her music career. Loretta Lynn started her career by singing at church while she was young (Lynn, 2004). At age eleven, Lynn’s family finally got a radio after she fostered them and that’s when Loretta became interested in country music (Carlin, 2006). Loretta Lynn became best friends with Patsy Cline in
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In recent years, Loretta Lynn works as often as she likes and some problems have come up in her life. Loretta Lynn’s husband began to have complications from his diabetes, became wan, and had heart problems that led for him to become deaf and blind. Loretta says that it’s impossible to speak a couple minutes without saying her husbands name and listening to the songs that remind her of Mooney make her heart broken (Cusic, 1983). Besides that, she was lurid as she was being pushed off the charts so younger, pop artists can be admired as fans (Freeland, 1990). Also, Lynn is still dealing with her daughter’s death because of emphysema in 2013. Loretta still works as much as she wants, but she has begun to wane in country music. Her last album that she produced was in 2002 (George-Warren, 2006). Right when Lynn became ill, she got elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame, but only performed when she wanted to. A year before she won the Kennedy Center Honor award, her new album and song, Still Woman Enough, came out in 2002. Loretta won Vocal Duo Of The Year Award with Twitty and became the first female singer to win the Country Music Association Of The Year Award in 1972. In Loretta Lynn’s music life, she has had fifteen number one albums, sixteen number one singles, sixty other hits, and won numerous awards (Carlin,
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