Country Icon, Porter Wagoner dies aged 80

• 30th Oct 2007

Report has it that country music icon; Porter Wagoner has recently died aged eighty years old, this 28th of October after a hard battle with lung cancer aged eighty years old.

The singer helped to launch the career of Dolly Parton during the late sixties and early seventies while performing along side her before her musical career as a solo artist took off. He was well known for his television show which he hosted for twenty one years up until 1981. Wagoner was also inducted into the country music hall of fame to mark his fifty years at the Grand Ole Opre.

Dolly Parton who took time out to visit Porter in hospital earlier this year quoted him one of her “Very best friends”

Pete Fisher, the owner of the legendary venue hall in Nashville mentioned “His Passion for the Opry and all the country music was truly immeasurable”

Fellow country singer Dierks Bentley said “The loss of Porter is a great loss for the Grand Ole Opry and for country music, and personally it is a great loss of a friend I was really just getting to know.”