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Keith Urban, Garth Brooks, George Strait And More To Honor Loretta Lynn Tonight

Country Music Hall of Famer Loretta Lynn celebrates her birthday on April 14. Although we can’t be sure on her exact age because the country Icon likes to keep it…

Garth Brooks, Keith Urban, George Strait And More To Honor Loretta Lynn Tonight
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Country Music Hall of Famer Loretta Lynn celebrates her birthday on April 14. Although we can't be sure on her exact age because the country Icon likes to keep it under wraps and has for years. But it's believed that she is close to 87.

Lynn is celebrating in a big way tonight (April 1) as many stars, including Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Brandy Clark, Darius Rucker, George Strait, Jack White, Kacey Musgraves, Keith Urban, Little Big Town, Margo Price and Miranda Lambert will be playing in a concert in Nashville dubbed "An All-Star Birthday celebration."

Garth said, “She’s a pistol and [I] just love being around her. I wish I was Loretta Lynn. I mean, everybody that comes to this town wants to be somebody like her.”

He added, “I got to be her date for the Lifetime [Achievement] Award The Grammys gave her. That’s a night I will never forget. I told Miss Yearwood…‘I’m so glad she wanted to go home after, because if we were gonna go out and party, I wouldn’t have been able to keep up with her! She is amazing to watch.”

-Nancy Brooks

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.