American country music star Lynn Anderson, best known for her 1971 worldwide hit (I Never Promised You A) Rose Garden, has died, aged 67.
The Grammy-winning singer died on Thursday night after suffering a heart attack at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
Anderson had recently been admitted to hospital for pneumonia following a trip to Italy.
Born in North Dakota and raised in Sacramento, California, Anderson was the daughter of two country songwriters and started performing at the age of six.
She first came to prominence on US variety show, The Lawrence Welk Show, between 1967 and 1969. Her popularity on the show helped her secure a deal with Columbia Records.
Her most famous hit, Rose Garden, earned her a Grammy and Country Music Association's female vocalist of the year award in 1971.
Anderson appeared on TV with several music legends including Lucille Ball, Bing Crosby, John Wayne and Sir Tom Jones, and she performed for US Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan.
Some of her other well-known hits include You're My Man, How Can I Unlove You? and Top of the World, which was also recorded by the Carpenters.
Anderson also appeared in episodes of the cop show Starsky and Hutch and in the 1990 BBC drama The Wreck on the Highway.
Singer Dolly Parton said: "Lynn is blooming in God's Rose Garden now. We will miss her and remember her fondly."
