Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian. She made her album debut in 1967 with Hello, I’m Dolly. Parton’s music includes Recording Industry Association of America -certified gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards. In 1999, Parton was inducted into theCountry Music Hall of Fame.
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Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian. She made her album debut in 1967 with Hello, I’m Dolly. Parton’s music includes Recording Industry Association of America -certified gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards. She has had 25 songs reach No. 1 on the Billboard country music charts, a record for a female artist. As an actress, she has starred in films such as 9 to 5 and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, for which she earned Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress. She is one of only seven female artists to win the Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year Award; five Academy of Country Music Awards; four People’s Choice Awards; and three American Music Awards. In 1999, Parton was inducted into theCountry Music Hall of Fame. She was born January 19, 1946, in a one-room cabin on the banks of the Little Pigeon River in Pittman Center, Tennessee. Her middle name comes from her maternal great-grandmother, Dolly Rebecca Whitted, who helped rehabilitate her family as Dolly’s father paid the doctor who delivered her cornmeal. Her father, known as \”Lee\”, worked in the mountains of East Tennessee, first as a sharecropper and later tending his own small tobacco farm and acreage. He was illiterate but Dolly Parton often says despite that fact, he was one of the smartest people she’s known in regards to business and making a profit.
Her mother, Avie Lee, cared for their large family. Her 11 pregnancies in 20 years made her a mother of 12 by age 35, and she still managed to keep house and entertain her children with Smoky Mountain folklore and ancient ballads. The songs were initially sung by immigrants moving from the British Isles to southern Appalachia over a century earlier. She is also in a select group to have received at least one nomination from the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, Tony Awards, and Emmy Awards. This was predominately a Pentecostal congregation, so Parton and her siblings all attended church regularly. For approximately 6 to 7 years, she and her family lived in a rustic, one-bedroom cabin on a small subsistence farm on Locust Ridge in the Greatbrier Valley of the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. In the late 1980s, she repurchased the property and returned it to her family. She wrote the song \”My Tennessee Mountain Home\” in the 1970s, which inspired her to write the song ‘My Tennessee Mountains’ in the 1990s. Parton has garnered ten Grammy Awards and 50 nominations, including the Lifetime Achievement Award and a 2020 Grammy Award with for KING & COUNTRY for their collaboration on ‘God Only Knows’ She has composed over 3,000 songs, including ‘Jolene’ and ‘Coat of Many Colors’
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