Dolly Parton Biography

Birth Date: January 19, 1946

Dolly Parton Age: 73 Years

Dolly Parton Born In: Sevierville

Famous for: Singer

Height: 1.52 M

Dolly Parton husband: Carl Thomas Dean

Father: Robert Lee Parton

Mother: Avie Lee Owens

Net Worth: $500 Million As Of Jan 17, 2017

Dolly Parton Biography

Dolly Parton is a lady with various gifts; she is a prominent vocalist, lyricist, creator, performer and representative. She is additionally known for her altruistic work. Dolly Parton started her career at the youthful age of 13. Despite the fact that she at first picked up acclaim as a lyricist, she later accomplished achievement in other fields too. Dolly Parton is best known for country music and is a star in this kind in the United States of America. She has composed and assembled in excess of 3000 melodies over the span of her career that has surpassed six decades, and has won numerous honours, for example, the Grammy Awards, Country Music Association Awards, and American Music Awards alongside being named for the Oscar Awards twice. Dolly Parton held the record of having gotten the greatest number of Grammy Award selections of 46 till 2013. Other than singing, she has been prepared to play the musical instruments piano, banjo and guitar. Dolly Parton freely underpins LGBT equity and is recognized as a gay symbol by the LGBT people group. Dolly Parton is known to have English, Irish, German and Scottish family line.

Childhood & Early Life

Dolly Parton was born on 19 January 1946 at Sevier County in Tennessee, USA. She was the fourth of twelve kids born to Robert Lee Parton, a rancher and development worker and Avie Lee. She later depicted her family to be financially in reverse. Dolly Parton's family was slanted towards music and she took up singing from her mom. She credits her uncle Bill Owens for supporting her for making music as a career at a youthful age. After moving on from secondary school in 1964 she moved to Nashville, Tennessee to seek after her career in music.

Career

Dolly Parton started her expert exhibitions at 10 years old through TV and radio shows in Knoxville, Tennessee. Later her vocation started thriving in the year 1967 when she banded together with performer Porter Wagoner for the Porter Wagoner Show. This association likewise helped her in accepting a musical contract from RCA Records. RCA Records released her first single as a two-part harmony banded together with Porter Wagoner, a front of Tom Paxton's song 'The Last Thing on My Mind' which was released in 1967 and achieved the country top ten in mid-1968. The accompanying six years saw an unbreakable best ten singles from this association. In 1971, Dolly Parton earned her first No.1 Country singles hit with the song 'Joshua'. She had a lot more hit singles and two-part harmonies in the next years which included songs like 'Layer of Many Colors', 'Consuming the Midnight Oil', 'Contact Your Woman' and 'The Right Combination'. In 1973, Dolly Parton had the greatest hit up to that point with the single 'Jolene'. The next year she released 'I Will Always Love You' – a country outline topper song that proceeded to be one of her mark songs. In 1974, she had three country graph toppers surprisingly – 'Jolene', 'I Will Always Love You' and 'Love is Like a Butterfly'. Willing to seek after her fantasy of a performance profession, Dolly Parton settled on the choice to end the association with Porter Wagoner around this time. Be that as it may, they stayed in great terms and he kept on helping Dolly Parton with her records. They proceeded with work on two-part harmony collections and their last work was in 1975 with 'State Forever You'll Be Mine'. In 1977, she released her first hybrid number 'Here You Come Again' which topped both Pop and Country Music graphs. She got her first Grammy Award for this execution in 1978. Amid the two years that pursued, Dolly Parton kept on giving hit numbers that topped country music graphs too. She showed up amid this time through a meeting and facilitating appears. In 1980, her prominence expanded once more with numerous hit execution that included 'Beginning Once Again', 'Past love interests Can't Hold a Candle To You' and '9 to 5'. Dolly Parton had likewise acted in the satire include film '9 to 5' in 1980. The signature song of this film turned into the No.1 in grown-up contemporary, popular and country music outlines in the meantime in 1981. Dolly Parton was the main musician to have such a record. In 1986, Dolly Parton opened an amusement park by the name 'Dollywood' in Tennessee. The entertainment mecca is a prevalent travel goal even today. The mid-eighties were a period when Dolly Parton was all the while doing moderately well in music with great record deals. Nonetheless, her agreement with RCA Records finished amid a similar time after which she marked an agreement with Columbia Records in 1987. Around the same time, she released the collection 'Trio' alongside songwriter and artist Emmylou Harris and artist Linda Ronstadt which turned into a hit and earned much basic recognition. 

Dolly Parton kept on endeavouring towards accomplishment in popular music with the collection 'Rainbow'. Later she focused on country music and created No. 1 hits 'Yellow Roses' and 'Why'd You Come in Here Lookin' Like That'. Dolly Parton got much business accomplishment after prestigious artist Whitney Houston recorded her song 'I Will Always Love You' for the component film 'The Bodyguard', in 1992. The song, just as the collection, was a gigantic hit. In 1993, her collection 'Moderate Dancing With The Moon' won much basic recognition. Around the same time the songwriters of her song 'The Day I Fall in Love', which was highlighted in the motion picture 'Beethoven's second' won an Academy Award selection for Best Original Song. Until the late 1990s, her songs were valued and kept up their uniqueness.

Major Works

Her song "I Will Always Love You", which was written, composed, and originally recorded by her and was the second single from her 1974 accumulation 'Jolene' is her best-known song. Whitney Houston recorded a spread type of the song for the 1992 film 'The Bodyguard' and starting now and into the foreseeable future the song has ended up being a champion among the best-moving singles ever.

Humanitarian Works

Dolly Parton formed the Dollywood Foundation in 1996. The foundation focuses on literacy and has been instrumental in encouraging perusing among the offspring of more than 1600 networks over the USA, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. 

Dolly Parton has additionally moved in the direction of different causes like the American Red Cross and HIV-AIDS. Her music has been utilized in PETA's advertisement crusades.

Awards

Best Country Duo/Group Performance 2017
Lifetime Achievement Award 2011
Best Country Vocal Performance - Female 2002
Best Bluegrass Album 2001
Best Country Collaboration with Vocals 2000
Best Country Song Nine to Five (1980) 1982
Best Country Vocal Performance – Female 1979
Favourite All-Around Female Entertainer 1988