Loretta Lynn Stroke: Legend Hospitalized in Nashville

Kacey Musgraves and Loretta Lynn (Getty)

Country singing legend Loretta Lynn has suffered a stroke and been rushed to the hospital, according to a statement on her website.

The statement says that Lynn, who is 85-years-old, is expected to make a “full recovery.” However, the country icon was admitted to a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee on May 4, the statement posted to the LorettaLynn.com website reads.

The statement says in full:

American country music legend Loretta Lynn was admitted into a hospital in Nashville last night after she suffered a stroke at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee.

She is currently under medical care and is responsive and expected to make a full recovery.

Loretta, who just celebrated her 85th birthday, has been advised by her doctors to stay off the road while she is recuperating. Regrettably, upcoming scheduled shows will be postponed.

Lynn’s career and bio need no introduction; she’s one of country’s greats. However, her website biography says she first arrived in Nashville 55 years ago, “signing her first recording contract on February 1, 1960, and within a matter of weeks, she was at her first recording session.”

The bio continues, “A self-taught guitarist and songwriter, Lynn became one of the most distinctive performers in Nashville in the 1960s and 1970s, shaking things up by writing her own songs, many of which tackled boundary-pushing topics drawn from her own life experiences as a wife and mother.”

Loretta Lynn has continued performing despite her advanced age.

Singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn performs on stage during the CMA 2016 Country Christmas on November 8, 2016 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Getty)

Lynn’s life arc from poverty to stardom were immortalized in and she will ever be known as A Coal Miner’s Daughter.

“As millions who read her 1976 autobiography or saw its Oscar winning 1980 film treatment are aware, Loretta is a Coal Miner’s Daughter who was raised in dire poverty in a remote Appalachian Kentucky hamlet. Living in a mountain cabin with seven brothers and sisters, she was surrounded by music as a child,” the website bio says.

This article will be updated as more information is learned.

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May 5, 2017 8:25 pm