Country Folk Singer John Prine Dies at 73 of CCP Virus Complications: Report

Country Folk Singer John Prine Dies at 73 of CCP Virus Complications: Report
John Prine performing at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn. on June 15, 2019. Amy Harris/Invision/AP
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Grammy-winning singer John Prine, who wrote his early songs in his head while delivering mail and later emerged from Chicago’s folk revival scene in the 1970s to become one of the most influential songwriters of his generation, died on Tuesday, the New York Times reported. He was 73.

Prine was hospitalized on March 26 suffering from symptoms of the CCP virus, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, according to his wife, Fiona Whelan Prine, who was also his manager.