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Updated Tuesday, February 6, 2024-13:24
Country music artist
Toby Keith
, author of several best-selling albums of this genre in
the US
, died this Monday at the age of 62 due to stomach cancer, as confirmed by his official website.
"Toby Keith passed away last night peacefully and surrounded by his family," says the statement published nearly two years after this musician awarded the
National Medal of Arts
in his country announced the news of his illness.
Keith sold around 40 million records, thanks mainly to his 19 published studio albums (the last 'Drinks After Work' in 2013), five of which reached number 1 in the US generic chart of this style.
Keith (Clinton, 1961) achieved success in 1993 with the release of his first single, 'Should've Been a Cowboy', one of the biggest hits of his career and the most-radiod country song of the decade. .
It was not his only song of great commercial reach, as 'As Good As I Once Was', 'Beer For My Horses', 'He Ain't Worth Missing' and 'A Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action', among others, prove. many others.
That list also includes 'Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue', a diatribe on patriotism published after the 9/11 attacks and the death of his father in a car accident, which was the subject of confrontation with the group.
Dixie Chicks
for "identifying country with ignorance."