LORETTA LYNN SUFFERS A STROKE AND IS HOSPITALIZED

A post on her official website on Thursday confirmed that Country music star Loretta Lynn has suffered a stroke at her home in Tennessee and is hospitalized.

"She is currently under medical care and is responsive and expected to make a full recovery," the statement says.

A schedule on the website also revealed that Loretta Lyn has put forward two of her four upcoming shows, one on Saturday night in South Carolina and the other on May 12 in Pennsylvania.

On Friday, Lynn’s publicist Maria Malta disclosed that the music star was admitted into a Nashville hospital.

The 85-year-old star has been doing professional music since the 1950s.  Loretta Lynn has four Grammy awards to her name and she has been nominated for the prestigious music prize on seventeen occasions.

She was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988 and she has released multiple gold albums throughout a career that has spanned almost 6 decades.  Loretta also holds the enviable record of being the most awarded female country recording artist.

The octogenarian started her musical career at a very tender age by teaching herself to play the guitar.  She also sang in local clubs in the late 1950s and she received huge support from her husband for her musical career.  She was the second of eight children and she was born and raised in a mining community near Paintsville.

On January 10, 1948, the then 15-year-old Loretta married Oliver Vanetta Lynn who she had only met a month earlier. In total, the couple had six children together.

Some of her most famous tracks include "Coal Miner's Daughter," "Fist City" and "You're Lookin' at Country."

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