(Reuters) – U.S. country music star Toby Keith died on Monday night aged 62, a post on his X social media account said.
The singer best known for his 1993 hit “Should’ve Been a Cowboy” announced in 2022 he had been diagnosed with stomach cancer, saying he needed time to “breathe, recover and relax”.
Keith “passed peacefully … surrounded by his family. He fought his fight with grace and courage,” the post read.
(Reporting by Harshita Meenaktshi and Maria Ponnezhath in Bengaluru; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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