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Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is a Grammy Award-winning country music singer/songwriter, composer, author, actress and philanthropist. To date, she remains one of the most successful female country artists, with 25 number-one singles (a record for a female country artist) and 42 top-10 country albums (a record for any country artist).

She is known for her distinctive mountain soprano, sometimes bawdy humor, flamboyant dress sense, and her small waist and large chest.

Parton was born in Sevierville, Tennessee, the fourth of 12 children born to Robert Lee Parton and Adie Lee Owens. Her siblings are Willadeene Parton (a poet), David Parton, Denver Parton, Bobby Parton, Stella Parton (a singer), Cassie Parton, Larry Parton (who died shortly after birth), Randy Parton (a singer), twins Floyd Parton (a songwriter) and Freida Parton (a singer), and Rachel Dennison (an actress).

Her family was, as she described them, "dirt poor."[1] They lived in a rustic, dilapidated one-room cabin in Locust Ridge, a hamlet just north of Greenbrier in the Great Smoky Mountains of Sevier County, Tennessee. Parton's parents were parishioners in the Church Of God, of Cleveland, Tenn. Church, a Pentecostal denomination, and music was a very large part of her church experience. She once told an interviewer that her grandfather was a Pentecostal "holy roller" preacher [2]. Today, when appearing in live concerts, she frequently performs spiritual songs. (Parton, however, professes no denomination, claiming only to be "spiritual" while adding that she believes that all the Earth's people are God's children.)

Overview
Date of Birth:
19 January 1946, Sevierville, Tennessee, USA more
Mini Biography:
Dolly Rebecca Parton was born on January 19, 1946, one of 12 children... more
Trivia:
Wears size 5 1/2 shoes. more
Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 12 nominations more
Alternate Names:
Dolly / D. Parton

On May 30, 1966, at the age of 20, she married Carl Dean in Ringgold, Georgia. She met Dean on her first day in Nashville, at age 18, at the Washy-Washy Laundromat. His very first words to her were: "You're gonna get sunburn out there, little lady." [3] Dean, who runs an asphalt-paving business in Nashville, has always shunned publicity and rarely accompanies her to any events. The couple have raised several of Dolly's younger siblings at their home in Nashville, leading her nieces and nephews to refer to her as "Aunt Granny." Dean and Parton have no children together.

Dolly is the godmother of singer and actress Miley Cyrus

Parton began performing as a child, singing on local radio and television programs in East Tennessee. At age 9 she was appearing on The Cas Walker Show on WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee, and at 13, she was recording on a small record label, Gold band, and appearing at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. It was that night at the Opry that she first met Johnny Cash, who encouraged her to go where her heart took her, and not to care what others thought. [4] The day after she graduated from high school in 1964 she moved to Nashville, taking many traditional elements of folklore and popular music from East Tennessee with her.

Parton's initial success came as a songwriter, writing hit songs for Hank Williams, Jr. and Skeeter Davis. [5] She signed with Monument Records in late 1965, where she was initially pitched as a bubblegum pop singer, [6] earning only one national chart single, "Happy, Happy Birthday Baby," which did not crack the Billboard Hot 100. Additional pop singles also failed to chart.

The label agreed to have Parton sing country music after her composition, "Put It Off Until Tomorrow," as recorded by Bill Phillips (and with Parton, unaccredited, on harmony), went to No. 6 on the Country Charts in 1966. Her first country single, "Dumb Blonde" (one of the few songs during this era that she recorded but didn't write), reached No. 24 on the country charts in 1967, followed the same year with "Something Fishy," which went to Number 17. The two songs anchored her first full-length album, Hello I'm Dolly.

Neighbors silence Dolly Parton fan

Aug 2007

A British woman has had her stereo confiscated after neighbors complained about her blasting out Dolly Parton hits at top volume around the clock.

Diane Duff in reportedly made life a misery for people living near her in the Armey area of Leeds, northern England, by playing country and western hits like "9 to 5" and "Stand By Your Man" at all hours of the day and night.

Leeds City Council says it has slapped a noise abatement order on the mother of four. Police have confiscated her music system, televisions, DVD players, a computer and games consoles, as well as a number of compact discs and games.

Legal action has also begun against Ms Duff in for breaching the noise abatement order, to evict her from her municipally run property and to have her sanctioned with an anti-social behavior order.

Ms Duff in, 36, told the Yorkshire Evening Post newspaper that Parton's hits were often belted out from her home in Heights Drive, but that her 15-year-old son Josh was a bigger fan.

"I do like Dolly Parton and we do play it a lot, but not all day and night. We don't disturb anyone. A lot of the time it's Josh who plays it. He loves her music. It's got sentimental value to him," she said.

But neighbor Joanne Kempton said her life had been made a "living hell".

On one day alone she had noted down that the song "D.I.V.O.R.C.E" was played no fewer than 20 times.

Parton is a hugely successful songwriter, having begun by writing country music songs with strong elements of folk music in them, based upon her upbringing in humble mountain surroundings, and reflecting her family's evangelical Christian background. Her songs "Coat of Many Colors" and "Jolene" have become classics in the field, as have a number of others. As a composer, she is also regarded as one of country music's most gifted storytellers, with many of her narrative songs based on persons and events from her childhood. Parton has published almost 600 songs with BMI to date and has earned 37 BMI awards for her material. [7]

After a decade long absence from touring, Parton decided to hit the road in 2002 with the Halos & Horns Tour, an 18-city, intimate club tour to promote the CD of the same name. House of Blues Entertainment, Inc. produced the tour and it sold out all of its U.S. and European dates (her first in two decades).
 

During the mid-1970s, Parton had her eyes set on expanding her audience base. The first step towards meeting this goal was her attempt at a variety show, Dolly!. Even though it had high ratings, the show lasted merely one season, with Dolly Parton asking out of her contract due to the stress it was causing her vocal cords. (In 1987 she tried a second TV variety show, also titled Dolly, which lasted only one season.)

In 1980, Jane Fonda decided Parton was a perfect candidate for her upcoming film, 9 to 5. She was looking for a brassy Southern woman for a supporting role and felt the singer was perfect. Parton received acclaim for her performance, receiving Golden Globe nominations for Best Motion Picture Actress — Musical/Comedy and New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture — Female. She also scored the biggest solo hit of her career with the title song, which she wrote; it earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song. She received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song — Motion Picture. The song won two Grammy Awards, for Best Female Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song. It reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was also #78 on American Film Institute's 100 years, 100 songs. She was also named the Top Female Box Office Star title by Motion Picture Herald in both 1981 and 1982.

When she crossed over into pop and became a media superstar in the late 1970s, she was significantly overweight, although her small frame and costuming made her appear average in size everywhere except the breasts, which were very large and quickly became the target of late-night talk show host jokes. At the time, whenever asked if her breasts were real, she said they were real. In the mid-1980s, she lost a considerable amount of weight. In interviews afterward, she avoided answering whether her breasts had been augmented, referring to any procedure as only a "lift." In 2002, however, she admitted for the first time in separate interviews with The Irish Independent and The Daily Mirror that after the weight loss in the 1980s, she lost a great deal of breast size and subsequently obtained breast implants to bring them back to a similar size as she had prior to the weight loss. Since then, she has made ample jokes in media interviews about their not being natural. She even once joked by saying "Yep they are mine! Bought and paid for!".

Since the mid-1980s Parton has been praised for her many charitable efforts, particularly in the area of literacy. Her literacy program, Dolly Parton's "Imagination Library", which mails one book per month to children from the time of their birth until they enter kindergarten, began in Sevier County, Tennessee, but has now been replicated in 566 counties across thirty-six U.S. states (as well as Canada[11]). In December 2007 it crossed the Atlantic when she chose the Yorkshire town of Rotterdam to be the first British locality to receive the books, a gesture which did not meet with universal approval within the borough council, where one member objected to a one hour delay in the council meeting so the other members could meet Parton[12]. It has resulted in Parton's receiving the Association of American Publishers' AAP Honors in 2000, Good Housekeeping's Seal of Approval in 2001 (the first time the seal had been given to a person), the American Association of School Administrators' Galaxy Award in 2002, the Chasing Rainbows Award from the National State Teachers of the Year in 2002, and the Child and Family Advocacy Award from the Parents As Teachers National Center in 2003. She was honored as a "Living Legend" by the Library of Congress for her work.[13] The program distributes more than 2.5 million free books to children annually.

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