The singer reportedly suffered a heart attack and died at a Nashville hospital.
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For two years during the late 1960s, Ms. Anderson was a regular on the popular Lawrence Welk Show, an outlet which exposed her to a nationwide audience.
Her popularity began to fade during the second half of the 1970s, and in 1980, she released her final recording for Columbia. It spent five weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart, and was also a hit in adult contemporary and mainstream pop. She won a Grammy for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for the recording, and she also took home CMA Female Vocalist of the Year honors in 1971.
She made television appearances with such stars as Lucille Ball, Bing Crosby, John Wayne and Tom Jones and she performed for presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan.
It has been announced today, July 31, 2015 by Music Row Magazine and The Tennessean that the iconic and lovely Lynn Anderson has passed away.
Anderson was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, in 1947, and grew up in Sacramento, California. “Her parents were songwriters Casey and Liz Anderson, and Liz wrote the Merle Haggard hits “(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers” and “I’m a Lonesome Fugitive“. And she once appeared on Starsky and Hutch, as well as the 1982 TV movie Country Gold.
With the release of her first #1 country hit, “Rose Garden”, Anderson became a crossover star as the song hit #3 on the pop chart. “Rose Garden” was a song I sang in high school in our Kiowa Cowboys High School band. “By the grace of God, I am very grateful that no one was injured as a result”, she said. She did so much for the females in country music. “Always continuing to pave the road for those to follow”, Reba McEntire says in a press release. “We will miss her and remember her fondly”, Parton said in a statement.
In her later years she lived in Taos, New Mexico, where she faced a number of legal problems.
Her success in the equestrian community was equally as monumental as her music career, winning 16 National Championships and four world championships across the American Quarter Horse Association and National Cutting Horse Association. Since then, she’s recorded a handful of albums, including the Grammy-nominated Bluegrass Sessions, in 2004.
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She is survived by her father, her partner Mentor Williams and her children, Lisa Sutton, Melissa Hempel and Gray Stream.
