Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of rock legend Elvis Presley and a singer-songwriter, has died. She was 54.
The news was announced within a few hours of her being rushed to hospital in Los Angeles after suffering a suspected heart attack at home.
Her death was confirmed by her mother, Priscilla who in a statement said: “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us. She was the most passionate, strong and loving woman I have ever known.”
Presley, the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, shared her father’s brooding charisma — the hooded eyes, the insolent smile, the low, sultry voice — and followed him professionally, releasing her own rock albums in the 2000s, and appearing on stage with Pat Benatar and Richard Hawley among others.
She even formed direct musical ties with her father, joining her voice to such Elvis recordings as “In the Ghetto» and “Don’t Cry Daddy,» a mournful ballad which had reminded him of the early death of his mother (and Lisa Marie’s grandmother), Gladys Presley.
