Dolly Rebecca Parton

Dolly Rebecca Parton was born on the 19th of January 1946 in Pittman Center, Tennessee and raised in Sevierville, Tennessee to Avie Lee Parton, a housewife & Robert Lee Parton, a tobacco farmer. When she was 12 she was already appearing on Knoxville TV. At 13 she was already recording on a label of a small size and performing on the Grand Ole Opry. She graduated high school in 1964 before moving to Nashville to begin her country singing journey. She became a fan of Carl Dean, who ran an asphalt-paving business; they were married on May 30th, 1966 and are still together. In 1967 , her vocals caught the interest of Porter Wagoner, who hired her to appear on his show, The Porter Wagoner Show (1961). She stayed with the show for 7 years, their duets gained fame and she was a part of his group on the Grand Ole Opry; she also toured and sold records. When her 1970 hit "Joshua" hit the top spot at the top spot, her popularity was too great to compete with the fame of his. In 1974, she set out by herself and recorded duets with his. She separated from him and became a solo artist in 1974. Dolly achieved immense fame as a songwriter/singer. Dolly received many Country Music Association awards (1968-1971, 1971, 1975-1976, 1975-1976). This diminutive (5'0") beauty was a natural for television at the time, and by the middle of the 1970s she began appearing regularly on television specials and talk shows before getting her own, Dolly (1976). Dolly received her first Grammy award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in 1977 for "Here You Come Again". Dolly's first film appearance was in 9 to 5 (1980) In the film, she got an Oscar nomination for writing the title tune. She also received Grammy awards 2 and 3: Best Country Song, and Best Female Country Vocal Performance for the song "Nine to Five." Further fame was earned through her appearances in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) and as in Rhinestone (1984) and Rhinestone (1984), with the track "Tennessee Homesick Blues". Dolly Parton Enterprises is her media empire that is worth $100 million. In 1986, she created Dollywood, a Tennessee theme park in Pigeon Forge. This was to commemorate her Smoky Mountain upbringing. In the TV show of 1987, Dolly, she starred as herself. In 1988, she won another Grammy: Best Country Performance Duo or Group with Vocals, for "Trio".






 

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