Singer and songwriter Nanci Griffith has died at 68

(CNN)Folk and state vocalist and songwriter Nanci Griffith, whose medium "Other Voices, Other Rooms" won the 1994 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album, died connected Friday. She was 68.

Griffith passed distant successful Nashville, Tennessee, according to her absorption company. A typical for Gold Mountain Media did not springiness a origin for her death.

"It was Nanci's privation that nary further ceremonial connection oregon property merchandise hap for a week pursuing her passing," the typical said.

Griffith was a Texas-born vocalist whose fashionable recordings see "Love astatine the Five and Dime," "Once successful a Very Blue Moon" and "Outbound Plane."

She survived thyroid and bosom cancer, which she was diagnosed with successful the precocious 1990s.