Country music icon Kenny Rogers dies at 81

Variety

Rogers “passed away peacefully at home from natural causes under the care of hospice and surrounded by his family,” his family said in a statement. Rogers died less than a month before A&E's premiere of Biography: Kenny Rogers on April 13. As Variety notes, Rogers was a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, six-time CMA Awards winner, three-time Grammy Awards winner, recipient of the CMA Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award, CMT Artist of a Lifetime Award honoree and has been voted the “Favorite Singer of All Time” in a joint poll by readers of both USA Today and People. Rogers was also an actor in a number of TV movies and shows, including Touched by an Angel and Reno 911! One of his final roles was voicing "Kindly Book Narrator" on How I Met Your Mother.