(Reuters) -Laura Lynch, a founding member of the U.S. nation band “Dixie Chicks,” died in a head-on automotive crash on a Texas freeway, legislation enforcement stated on Saturday.
“We are shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Laura Lynch,” the band, which renamed itself “The Chicks” in 2020, wrote on social media.
“Laura was a bright light … her infectious energy and humor gave a spark to the early days of our band,” the band stated within the assertion.
Lynch, who co-founded the favored group in 1989 in Dallas together with musicians Robin Lynn Macy and sisters Martie and Emily Erwin, died in a head-on collision on a freeway outdoors of El Paso on Friday, the Texas Division of Public Security stated in an announcement.
Lynch, 65, was on the wheel of her automobile driving eastbound on US 62 outdoors of the town of El Paso when one other automotive touring in the wrong way tried to cross a automobile on a two-way undivided portion of the freeway.
It crashed into Lynch’s Ford (NYSE:) truck, and he or she was pronounced useless on the scene. The motive force of the opposite automobile was transported to an area hospital with non-life-threatening accidents, officers stated.
The Chicks praised Lynch’s “infectious energy and humor” and stated in an announcement she was “instrumental” to the band’s early success.
Lynch was the Dixie Chick’s bassist and at one level the principle vocalist. She left the group in 1995.
Initially based as a bluegrass band, Dixie Chicks launched their main label debut “Wide Open Spaces” in 1998, promoting “more CDs than all other country music groups combined,” and incomes their first Grammy Award, in response to the awards’ web site.
