{"id":56363,"date":"2026-05-08T15:59:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ternalnews.info\/?p=56363"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:59:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:59:49","slug":"the-first-queen-of-country-music-dead-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ternalnews.info\/?p=56363","title":{"rendered":"The First Queen of Country Music, Dead at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pongsri Woranuch, Thai Country Music Pioneer, Passes Away at 85<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-9\">\n<div id=\"ternalnews.com_responsive_2\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23201474937\/ternalnews.com\/ternalnews.com_responsive_2_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pongsri Woranuch, a celebrated icon in Thai country music\u2014known as Luk Thung\u2014has passed away at the age of 85. She died early Sunday morning at her home, as confirmed by her son. Woranuch had been battling a serious lung-related illness, with reports varying between chronic lung disease and cancer. In the months leading up to her passing, she had reportedly been hospitalized several times.<br \/>\nHer son, Jujuk Boonnachoti, shared the emotional news on Facebook, saying, \u201cAnd then Mom got on the last express train and left us. No more cold nights alone, no more pain. Mom, if there\u2019s anything I\u2019ve done wrong in action or in words\u2014please forgive me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pongsri Woranuch, Thai Country Music Pioneer, Passes Away at 85 Pongsri Woranuch, a celebrated icon in Thai country music\u2014known as Luk Thung\u2014has passed away at the age&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The First Queen of Country Music, Dead at 85 - TernaNews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ternalnews.info\/?p=56363\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The First Queen of Country Music, Dead at 85 - 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