Lisa Marie Presley, the singer whose bluesy voice has spanned three albums, died Thursday at the age of 54.
“It is with a heavy heart that I share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” her mother, Priscilla Presley, said in a statement, according to The Associated Press. “She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known.”
The announcement came just hours after her mother confirmed she had been rushed to a local hospital early Thursday. Presley had gone into cardiac arrest at her home in Calabasas, the LA County Fire Department confirmed to Rolling Stone. Just days before the incident, Presley, along with her mother Priscilla, attended the Golden Globes, where Austin Butler, who portrayed Elvis in the biopic about the musician, received the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama. “Lisa Marie, Priscilla, I love you forever,” Butler said during his acceptance speech.
Born on February 1, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, nine months after Elvis and Priscilla’s wedding, Lisa Marie grew up in the area before moving to Los Angeles with her mother after her parents’ divorce in 1973. Considered the most famous artist in history Presley forged her own music career. She released three albums: 2003’s To Whom It May Concern, which went gold in the US for selling over 500,000 units, 2005’s So What and 2012’s Storm & Grace. Throughout her work, she paid tribute to a man whose style and tone forever echoed in the American soundscape.
Presley has been open about her health issues in the past, including her journey to sobriety after suffering from an opioid addiction.
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“You may be reading this and wondering how, after losing people close to me, I also fell victim to opioids,” she wrote in The United States of Opioids, referring to her father and ex-husband Michael Jackson, according to Yahoo . “I recovered afterwards [2008] My daughters Vivienne and Finley were born when a doctor prescribed opioids for pain. It only took a short-term hospital prescription of opioids before I felt the need to continue taking them.”
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