From Rags to Riches (Loretta Lynn)
No conversation about country music is complete without Loretta Lynn. Her story reads like some fiction novel from the ’20s. She started off as a poorly educated girl from Kentucky and was married off at the age of 13, only to become one of the most prominent musicians of her genre, with a career spanning over 60 years.
Country singer Loretta Lynn receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a ceremony at The White House on November 20, 2013 in Washington, DC. Photo by Rena Schild / Shutterstock.com
She is not only the most awarded female country recording artist but also the only female ACM Artist of the Decade (in the 1970s). Having sold more than 45 million albums worldwide, she has won awards from the Country Music Association as well as the Academy of Country Music.