The 24-year-old singer reflected on an eating disorder and growing up on the tour bus in her show debut.
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"She's one of the biggest country music singers of all time but to me she's just my grandma," Emmy said of the"Coal Miner's Daughter" singer."Growing up on the bus and all that was very normal to me." After singing her own heartwrenching song at the piano for the judges, she scored a ticket to Hollywood. She continued,"I don't think you need to compare yourself to what grandma was. You're totally different.
Lynn, who scored over a dozen No. 1 hit singles and sold more than 45 million albums worldwide during a career that spanned six decades, , 2022, at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. She was 90. Her family said in a statement to ET that she was"surrounded by her loving family" at the time of her death.
Lynn left an indelible mark in the music world, with hits like"I'm a Honky Tonk Girl" in 1960 and the iconic 1969 track"Coal Miner's Daughter." She was born in 1932 in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, and was the daughter of Ted Webb, a coal miner. Her story served as the inspiration to the track and the 1976 autobiography of the same name.
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