Laura Lynch, a founding member of The Dixie Chicks, has been killed in a head-on automotive crash in Texas.
The 64-year-old musician died immediately after one other automotive slammed into her car because it was attempting to overhaul on a freeway exterior of El Paso Friday afternoon, TMZ studies.
The motive force of the opposite car was rushed to a hospital with non-life-threatening accidents, whereas Lynch was declared useless on the scene.
Lynch co-founded The Dixie Chicks alongside Robin Lynn Macy, Martie Erwin and Emily Erwin again in 1990.
The Texan-born songstress recorded three albums with the band earlier than leaving in 1993.
Lynch initially performed upright bass for the wildly in style nation group, earlier than offering lead vocals on their third album, “Shouldn’t a Advised You That.”
She was changed by Natalie Maines in 1995.
Little is understood about Lynch’s life and profession after her departure from the band.
In a 2003 information article, it was reported that Lynch was residing in Mineral Wells, Tx.
She had one daughter, Asia, and was married to Mac Wells, who had received $26.eight million in a lottery throughout the early 1990s.
Lynch purportedly spent her free time “studying to grease paint” and had no regrets about leaving the Dixie Chicks after affected by exhaustion.
She additionally spoke fondly of her 5 years with the group, declaring: “It was price. I’d get anemic yet again to do it.”
After Lynch’s departure from the band, the Dixie Chicks soared to worldwide success with the discharge of their album “Extensive Open Areas” in 1998.
The group launched two extra albums in fast succession, “Fly” in 1999″ and “Dwelling” in 2002, every of which bought tens of hundreds of thousands of information.
Nevertheless, the wildly profitable band had been blasted again in 2003 after Maines spoke out towards America’s invasion of Iraq and mentioned she was ashamed President George W. Bush was from her residence state of Texas.
The band finally recovered from the controversy, and rebranded as “The Chicks” in 2020.