confirmed to Rolling Stone. She was 78.Oslin was the first woman songwriter to win the Country Music Award’s top honor for Song of the Year in 1987 with her hit “80s Ladies,” of which she was the sole composer.The Arkansas-native, born Kay Toinette Oslin, was 45 by the time she hit mainstream success with the award-winning ballad. “I thought it would be a song that would be great to do live in concert,” she told CMT of the song, about a trio of rambunctious bra-burning women. “I thought it was one of those show pieces.
I never dreamed or thought it would be a single.”Oslin won a Grammy for her performance of the song, as well as for her following hit, “Hold Me.” “K.T.
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