Laura Lynch, a founding member of the US nation band “Dixie Chicks” has died in a head-on automobile crash on a Texas freeway, regulation 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 humour 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 collision on a freeway outdoors of El Paso on Friday, the Texas Department of Public Safety stated in a press release.
Lynch, 65, was on the wheel of her car driving eastbound on US 62 outdoors of the town of El Paso when one other automobile touring in the wrong way tried to cross a car on a two-way undivided portion of the freeway.
It crashed into Lynch’s Ford truck, and he or she was pronounced lifeless on the scene. The driver of the opposite car was transported to a neighborhood hospital with non-life-threatening accidents, officers stated.
Lynch was the Dixie Chick’s bassist and at one level the primary vocalist. She left the group in 1995.
Originally 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.
