Loretta Lynn:
born Loretta Webb in Johnson County, Kentucky on April 14, 1934
---was married a few months before she turned 14. wow. Lynn moved to Washington, Kentucky with her husband at the age of 14. Shortly thereafter, in an effort to break free of the coal mining industry, the couple moved across the country to Custer, Washington. The Lynns had four children by the time Loretta was 17 and she was a grandmother at age 29. whoa. Lynn recounts how her husband cheated on her regularly and left her once while she was giving birth. Lynn and her husband also fought frequently, but "he never hit me one time that I didn’t hit him back twice," she said. ..He died in 1996. ---
is an American country singer and was one of the leading country female vocalists during the 1960s and 1970s.
Although Kitty Wells had become the first major female country vocalist during the 1950s, by the time Lynn recorded her first record, only three other women - Patsy Cline, Skeeter Davis, and Jean Shepard - had become top stars. Lynn credits Cline as her mentor and best friend during those early years, and as fate would have it, Lynn would follow her as the most popular country vocalist of the early 60s and, eventually, the 1970s.

Tammy Wynette:
born Virginia Wynette Pugh near Tremont, Mississippi on May 5, 1942
died April 6, 1998 in Nashville
---over the course of her life, had five husbands---
was a country singer and songwriter. She was known as the 'First Lady of Country Music' and one of her best-known songs, "Stand by Your Man", was one of the biggest selling hit singles by a woman in the history of the country music genre. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Wynette dominated the country charts. She had seventeen number one hits. Along with Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Dottie West, and Lynn Anderson, she helped redefine the role and place of female country singers.

Dolly Parton:
born Dolly Rebecca Parton in Sevierville, Tennessee on January 19, 1946
---at the age of 20 married Carl Dean (whom she met on her first day in Nashville, aged 18, at the Wishy-Washy Laundromat). His very first words to her were: "You're gonna get sunburnt out there, little lady."[citation needed] Dean, who runs an asphalt-paving business in Nashville, has always shunned publicity and rarely accompanies her to any events. The couple have raised several of Dolly's younger siblings at their home in Nashville. huh so she has been married only once, and to a working man who dislikes publicity.---
is an American Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated country singer, songwriter, composer, author, actress and philanthropist.
In 1974, her song "I Will Always Love You" (written by her about her break from Wagoner) was released and went to #1 on the country charts. Around the same time, Elvis Presley indicated that he wanted to cover the song. Parton was interested until Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, told her that she would have to sign over half of the publishing rights if Elvis recorded the song (as was the standard procedure for songs Elvis recorded). Parton refused and that decision is credited with helping make her many millions of dollars in royalties from the song over the years. It was decisions like these, in fact, that caused her to be called "The Iron Butterfly" in showbiz circles. She also claims to have made over $6 million from Whitney Houston's cover version of this song.
also well-known for her large breasts and hair, all three of which were voted the most sexually stimulating celebrity body parts in a 1985 People magazine poll[citation needed] and are frequently a target of caricature and parody. ..When she crossed over into pop and became a media superstar in the late 1970s, she was significantly overweight, although her small frame and costuming made her appear average in size everywhere except the breasts, which were very large and quickly became the target of late-night talk show host jokes. At the time, whenever asked if her breasts were real, she said they were real. In the mid-1980s, she lost a considerable amount of weight. In 2002, she admitted for the first time that after the weight loss in the 1980s, she lost a great deal of breast size and subsequently obtained breast implants to bring them back to a similar size as she had prior to the weight loss. ..On a 2003 taping of Oprah, the talk show host asked what kind of cosmetic surgery Parton had ever undergone. Parton stated that she felt that cosmetic surgery was imperative in keeping with her famous image. Parton has joked about her physical image and surgeries, saying "It takes a lot of money to look this cheap."

Tanya Tucker:
born Tanya Denise Tucker in Seminole, Texas in 1958.
is an American Country Music Singer, who had her first hit, 'Delta Dawn' at the age of 13 in 1972.