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Country Music Star Toby Keith Dead At 62 After Stomach Cancer Battle


Iconic country music singer Toby Keith has died. The Oklahoma-born star was only 62 years old, but he'd been battling stomach cancer for the last year and

He released a whopping 61 tracks that appeared on the Billboard Hot Country charts — 20 of which hit number one along with 22 more that spent time in the top ten. He was no stranger to controversy, either, having feuded for a long time with Natalie Maines and the Chicks following the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. And in 2002, controversy reached a fever pitch after he released Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (The Angry American) as an aggressive response to 9/11 as well as in reaction to the death of his father — a disabled war veteran — in a car accident earlier that year.

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