Three-time GRAMMY award winner and member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, K.T. Oslin, has passed away at the age of 78 years old, on December 21, 2020.
A music history maker, Oslin rose to fame in Nashville at 45 years old with her hit, “80’s Ladies” in 1987. That year she was poised to become the first female songwriter to ever win the CMA for Song of the Year. In 1988 at she took the CMA for Female Vocalist of the Year.
Throughout the span of her career, Oslin took home three GRAMMY awards and received four Academy of Country Music honors over the course of her career. She entered the Texas Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2015, and three years later she was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2018.
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In recent years Oslin had been living in an assisted living facility. She had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease. Last week the Hall of Famer was diagnosed with COVID-19, but that diagnosis has not been confirmed as to contributing to her death.
In 2013 and 2015, K.T. gave her last performances - first at a sold-out Franklin Theater where she celebrated the 25th anniversary of “80’s Ladies,” and then in 2015 when she performed a sold out show at The City Winery to honor the release of her last record, Simply.
After these two shows, K.T. retired from performing and recording. The Country legend will be long remembered. Funeral arrangements have not yet been announced.
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