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Country singer Holly Dunn dies after battling cancer

Holly Dunn, shown on Sept. 27, 1995, in Nashville. (AP Photo / Mark Humphrey)

NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) -

Country singer Holly Dunn has died at age 59 after battling cancer.

A close family friend told Channel 4 that Dunn passed away at a hospice facility in Albuquerque, NM, surrounded by friends and family members.

Back in March, the singer revealed she was fighting ovarian cancer.

Dunn rose to fame in the 80s with hits like "Daddy's Hands" and "You Really Had Me Going."

Dunn eventually left the music business to pursue a career as a painter.

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Leon Russell, who emerged in the '70s as one of rock'n'roll's most dynamic performers and songwriters after playing anonymously on dozens of pop hits as a much-in-demand studio pianist in the 1960s, died on Sunday at the age of 74.

Russell, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, died in his sleep in Nashville, Tennessee.

Russell had endured health problems in his later years, undergoing surgery to stop leaking brain fluid in 2010 and suffering a heart attack in July 2016.

Russell's period of stardom as a performer was relatively brief but Elton John, who had once been Russell's opening act, engineered a comeback for him in 2010 when they collaborated on an album titled "The Union."

"He was my biggest influence as a piano player, a singer and a songwriter," John told ABC News.

Russell recorded more than 35 albums and also excelled as a songwriter for other performers. His "A Song for You" was recorded by Joe Cocker, the Carpenters, the Temptations, Neil Diamond, Lou Rawls, Dusty Springfield, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and his good friend Willie Nelson. The Carpenters, Reddy, Shirley Bassey, Robert Goulet and George Benson all covered Russell's "This Masquerade," with Benson's version winning the 1976 Grammy as record of the year. He had solo hits "Tightrope" and "Lady Blue".

Russell was known as "the master of space and time" in his '70s heyday. He wore a cocked top hat and, with salt-and-pepper hair past his shoulders and a beard that reached his chest, created an inscrutable image that was equal parts shaman, tent revival preacher and cosmic ringmaster.

He ruled the stage with piano-banging abandon and, backed by a multi-piece band and a backup chorus, put on a show that was a roiling stew of rock, soul, gospel and country.