Six weeks after Toby Keith died, the Country Music Hall of Fame announced that the Oklahoma entertainment icon would be posthumously added to its storied ranks.
But the Norman-based superstar actually was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame before he died.
“It makes a huge difference to us that the voting concluded, and it was already set before he passed away,” Krystal Keith , his younger daughter and fellow singer-songwriter told The Oklahoman.
“That makes a huge difference to our family and the way that we look at it.”
Already a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Oklahoma Hall of Fame and Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame , Keith died Feb. 5 at age 62 after a multiyear battle with stomach cancer .
On Sunday, Oct. 20, the country hitmaker will be ushered into the genre’s most hallowed hall during the annual Medallion Ceremony at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. The event will include the unveiling of Keith’s hall of fame plaque before its placement in the rotunda, officially placing him among the ranks of country music greats like Hank Williams, Mother Maybelle Carter, Merle Haggard and many more.