- Younger sister of Loretta Lynn.
- When her 1980 song "If You Ever Change Your Mind" was Grammy-nominated in the Best Country Vocal Performance category, the singer found herself competing (same category) with Sissy Spacek who was nominated for title song from Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), the acclaimed biopic in which Spacek portrayed Gayle's real-life sister Loretta Lynn
- First country artist to tour China in 1979. First female country artist to hold her own television special.
- Voted one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world in 1983.
- Was awarded the Cherokee Medal of Honor in Tahlequah, by the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
- First female country artist to have an album reach Platinum Status: "We Must Believe In Magic" (1977).
- Owns a store in Brentwood, Tennessee called "Crystal's", which specializes in beautiful gifts.
- Was inducted into the Native American Hall of Fame in 2001. She is of Tsalagi (Cherokee) ancestry.
- CMA award winner for Top Female Vocalist in 1977 and 1978.
- Received a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 1515 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on October 2, 2009.
- Inducted into the Hair Fan's Hall of Fame in 2013.
- ACM award winner for Top Female Vocalist in 1976, 1978 and 1979.
- Contributed vocal solos and duets with singer/songwriter/actor Tom Waits for the 1982 Francis Ford Coppola film One from the Heart (1981).
- Inducted into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame on February 2008.
- She and her elder sister Loretta Lynn were the only siblings to each make guest appearances in The Muppet Show (1976).
- Country singer
- Has two children: Catherine Clare and Christos James.
- Her 1985 song, A Long and Lasting Love, can be heard playing at the end of the movie Big (1988), when Susan is watching Josh depart, from her car. The music is slowed down and somewhat distorted---so as not to be overtly recognized. The production never acknowledged it, nor gave soundtrack credit.
- Rolling Stone ranked her among the 100 greatest country artists of all time and CMT ranked her within their list of the 40 greatest women of country music.
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