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Loretta Lynn Biography

Birth Name:Loretta Web

Birth Place:Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, United States

Profession Soundtrack, Actress, Writer

Fast Facts

  • In 1988, she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame
  • Started the charity event Ride for Mission 22 to help raise money to support military veterans
  • President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 for her cultural contributions to the United States
  • Is the sister of singers Peggy Sue and Crystal Gayle
  • Her first guitar, which she received for her sixth wedding anniversary, cost $17
  • When she was still only playing locally, Norm Burley saw her in a televised talent contest and formed Zero Records just so he could record her
  • Won 17 blue ribbons for her canned vegetables at a local fair when she was 19
  • Quote: "Me and my husband both worked․ I took care of a farmhouse, cleaned and cooked for 36 ranch hands before I started singing․ So singing was easy․ I thought 'Gee whiz, this is an easy job․'"
  • Her number-one hits include "Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)," "You Ain't Woman Enough," "Fist City" and "Coal Miner's Daughter․"
  • Her lyrics, which focused on the concerns of working-class women, often pushed the boundaries of country music
  • Wrote her first songs while leaning against a toilet in Washington State
  • Is named after actress Loretta Young
  • Wrote her song"You Ain't Woman Enough" in ten minutes in her dressing room, after a married woman at her concert told her about another woman trying to steal her husband away