Laura Lynch, a founding member of The Dixie Chicks, who performed the upright bass within the band from 1990-93, has died. She was 65.
The musician was killed in a automobile crash close to El Paso, Texas, Friday night, her cousin, Michael Lynch, advised CBS Information.
Per a Texas Division of Security report obtained by HuffPost, a automobile was attempting to cross one other car on a two-way undivided portion of a freeway and crashed head-on into Lynch’s automobile. In line with the report, the artist was pronounced useless on the scene, and the opposite driver was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening accidents.
The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to the Texas DPS and police division.
Lynch based The Dixie Chicks, who now go by The Chicks, in 1989, alongside fellow members Robin Lynn Macy, Martie Erwin and Emily Erwin. She started as an upright bassist with the band and ultimately took over because the lead vocalist when Macy left in 1992.
Collectively, the bassist and her fellow bandmembers recorded three albums — Thank Heavens for Dale Evans, Little Ol’ Cowgirl and Shouldn’t a Informed You That — earlier than she left the nation music group in 1993 and was changed by Natalie Maines two years later.
The explanation for Lynch’s departure has diversified over time. On the time, the remaining members shared that she had been considering leaving for fairly a while as she had gotten bored with touring and needed to spend extra time at residence together with her household.
In a 2003 interview with Texas’ Plainview Herald, Lynch wouldn’t focus on why she left as a result of she advised the publication that she and the group agreed to not discuss it publicly. Nonetheless, she did observe that she was changed, and that at all times hurts, later including that she had no regrets about lacking out on the band’s fame.
The Chicks shared a video of Lynch acting on their official Instagram account following the information of her demise, saying they had been “shocked and saddened” to listen to about it.
“We maintain a particular place in our hearts for the time we spent taking part in music, laughing and touring collectively,” they wrote within the caption of a video of Lynch performing. “Laura was a vibrant gentle…her infectious power and humor gave a spark to the early days of our band. Laura had a present for design, a love of all issues Texas and was instrumental within the early success of the band. Her plain abilities helped propel us past busking on road corners to phases all throughout Texas and the mid-West.”
They concluded their publish noting, “Our ideas are together with her household and family members at this unhappy time.”
Lynch is survived by her husband, Mac Tull, and their daughter, Asia.
