Country Music Legend Kenny Rogers Dies At 81
Sumaira FH Published March 21, 2020 | 05:31 PM
Country music legend Kenny Rogers, whose career spanned six decades, has died at the age of 81, his family said late Friday
Los Angeles, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st Mar, 2020 ) :Country music legend Kenny Rogers, whose career spanned six decades, has died at the age of 81, his family said late Friday.
"Rogers passed away peacefully at home from natural causes under the care of hospice and surrounded by his family," they said in a statement.
The family said they were planning a small private service "out of concern for the national COVID-19 emergency." Kenny Rogers left an indelible mark on the history of American music.
"His songs have endeared music lovers and touched the lives of millions around the world," said the statement posted by his representative Keith Hagan.
A three-time Grammy winner who sold tens of millions of records, Rogers was known for a string of huge hits including "The Gambler," "Lucille" and "Islands in the Stream." "I've never considered myself a great singer, but I do have a certain way as a storyteller," he told the Irish Examiner in 2013.
"I've been very lucky in finding many great songs that have had a staying power, and have lingered longer in the heart.
" Released in 1978, his album "The Gambler" was a huge international hit, going multi-platinum and the title track became his signature song.
"I do two kinds of songs," he told NPR in 2015.
"There's story songs that have social significance, or they're ballads that say what every man would like to say and every woman would like to hear." - 'I don't gamble' - Rogers also starred the film "The Gambler," which was based on the song, but he liked to joke that he wasn't much of a gambler himself.
"I learned a long time ago, I can't win enough money to excite me, but I can lose enough to depress me," he told NPR. "So I don't gamble."He played his final concert at Nashville in October 2017, where he was joined by his long-time friend and collaborator Dolly Parton for a last performance of "Islands in the Stream."In April 2018 Rogers scrapped the final dates of his farewell tour due to health concerns.
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