Nanci Griffith, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, has died at age 68, a rep for her management company says.
died Friday morning in Nashville, a rep for her management company has confirmed to Variety. No caused of death was announced; she was 68.
While a powerful singer in her own right, Griffith was arguably better known for her songs like “Love at the Five and Dime” and “Outbound Plane” and as a collaborator: She recorded duets with Emmylou Harris, John Prine, Willie Nelson, the Chieftains, Darius Rucker, and many others over the course of her four-decade career. Her Grammy was for an album consisting of classic country covers, “Other Voices, Other Rooms.
In fact, Griffith’s genre-spanning style led to challenges from the beginning of her career. Born in Seguin, Texas in 1953, she began playing clubs in nearby Austin as a teenager and worked as a schoolteacher before her musical career took off. Initially primarily a folk singer — a style that was hardly at the peak of its popularity in the late 1970s — she was eventually deeply embraced by the Nashville community and made the city her home for many years.
She continued to tour widely and release albums up until “Intersections,” recorded with her longtime band members Pete and Maura Kennedy, which was recorded in her Nashville home and released in 2012 on the indie Proper Records.
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