{"id":18615,"date":"2024-02-06T06:14:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T11:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/toby-keith-popular-country-music-singer-songwriter-dies-at-62\/06\/02\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-02-06T06:14:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T11:14:29","slug":"toby-keith-popular-country-music-singer-songwriter-dies-at-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/toby-keith-popular-country-music-singer-songwriter-dies-at-62\/06\/02\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Toby Keith, Popular Country Music Singer-Songwriter, Dies at 62"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Toby Keith, the larger-than-life singer-songwriter of No. 1 country hits like \u201cWho\u2019s Your Daddy?\u201d and \u201cMade in America\u201d and one of the biggest stars to come out of Nashville in three decades, died on Monday. He was 62.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His death was announced on <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tobykeith.com\/news\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his official website<\/a>, which said that he passed \u201cpeacefully\u201d surrounded by his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The singer announced in the summer of 2022 that he had been diagnosed with <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/13\/arts\/music\/toby-keith-stomach-cancer.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">stomach cancer<\/a> and was being treated with chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a recent interview with<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Uiey8FX6oFM&amp;ab_channel=News9YouTube\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> KWTV News 9<\/a>, an Oklahoma-based TV station, Mr. Keith, who played a run of shows in Las Vegas in December, said he was still in treatment. \u201cCancer is a rollercoaster,\u201d he said. \u201cYou just sit here and wait on it to go away \u2014 it may not ever go away.\u201d Keith said that his Christian faith was helping him get through the treatment and the potential dark outcome. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Singing in an alternately declamatory and crooning baritone, Mr. Keith cultivated a boisterous, in-your-face persona with recordings like \u201cI Wanna Talk About Me\u201d and \u201cBeer for My Horses.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Built around clever wordplay and droll humor \u2014 and more than a little macho bluster \u2014 both topped the country chart, with \u201cBeer for My Horses,\u201d a twangy, Rolling Stones-style rocker featuring Willie Nelson on vocals, crossing over to the pop Top 40.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Keith wrote or co-wrote most of his material, which ranged stylistically from traditional honky-tonk to pop-country balladry and Southern rock. More than 60 of his singles reached the country chart, including 20 No. 1 hits, and he sold more than 40 million albums worldwide. In 2015 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in a class with Cyndi Lauper, the blues pioneer Willie Dixon, and Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Keith was already in his 30s, having scuffled for years to make it in the music business, when he signed his first record deal in 1993. He had previously worked as a rodeo hand, a roughneck in the Oklahoma oil fields and as a semiprofessional football player to support his young family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI didn\u2019t take many vacations the first 20 years of my adult life,\u201d Mr. Keith said in a 2018 episode of The Big Interview with Dan Rather.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhen I came out and my song hit,\u201d he added, referring to \u201cShould Have Been a Cowboy,\u201d his first No. 1 country single, in 1993, \u201cI was doing 28, 29 shows a month because I didn\u2019t know I was going to get a second hit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAt the time I was just trying to outwork everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/06\/arts\/music\/toby-keith-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toby Keith, the larger-than-life singer-songwriter of No. 1 country hits like &ldquo;Who&rsquo;s Your Daddy?&rdquo; and &ldquo;Made in America&rdquo; and one of the<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/entertainment\/toby-keith-popular-country-music-singer-songwriter-dies-at-62\/06\/02\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"fifu_video_url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Uiey8FX6oFM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}