Joe Diffie who was a popular figure in the world of contemporary country music lost his life to the Coronavirus recently. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma back in the year 1958 the artist grew up in a musical family.
The artist was renowned for his chain of hits in the 1990s with several chart-topping ballads and honky-tonk singles like ‘Home’ and ‘Pickup Man’ under his name.
On Friday, Joe Diffie announced that he had been infected with the deadly coronavirus, becoming the first country star who went public with such a diagnosis.
According to Scott Adkins, who is Diffie’s publicist, the singer had his last breath on Sunday in Nashville, Tennessee due to serious complications from the virus.
Diffie who was a member of the Grand Ole Opry for above 25 years went on to become the number one on the country charts post the release of his first single ‘Home’. During his lifetime he had garnered several acclaims from his fellow country musicians.
Few of his hits included tracks like ‘Honky Tonk Attitude’, ‘Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)’, ‘Bigger Than the Beatles’, and ‘If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets)’.
Moreover, two of his mid- 90s albums named ‘Honkey Tonk Attitude’ and ‘Third Rock From the Sun’ went on to become platinum. Added to this eighteen of Diffie’s singles gifted him a position in the top 10 on the country charts along with five going to the rank of number one in his 2013 single ‘1994’, as per the name-checked by Jason Aldean in the 90s country mainstay music.
It seems things just got started for Joe Diffie when he shared a Grammy award for the best country collaboration for the hit song ‘Same Old Train’ along with Merle Haggard, Marty Stuart, and others.
The singer’s last solo album was released in the year 2010 titled ‘The Bluegrass’, which belonged to the album: Homecoming.
Apart from all his achievements, the talented country singer survived by his wife Tara Terpening Diffoe and also seven children which he had from four marriages.
The news that Joe Diffie dies of coronavirus, has brought immense grief to the country music lovers with the loss of one of the most celebrated singers to the COVID-19.
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