Background
She was natural Dolly Rebecca Parton inside Sevierville, Tennessee, the fourth of 12 babies born to Robert Lee Parton & Avie Lee Owens, & grew higher "dirt poor" within the 1-room cabin, besides described as a "run-down farm" touching Locust Ridge. Her sib come Willadeene Parton, David Parton, Denver Parton, Bobby Parton, Stella Parton (a singer), Cassie Parton, Larry Parton, Randy Parton, twins Floyd Parton & Freida Parton, & Rachel Dennison (an actress).

Dolly was raised Assembly of God, a Pentecostal denomination, and music was the super big a portion of her church case. She when told an interviewer that her grandpthe was a Pentecostal "Holy Roller" preacher and now, whenever appearing within survive concerts in the South, she frequently performs a "Holy Roller" song "Go To Hell." Parton, still, professes there are no denomination, claiming to become just Christian while adding that she believes that all Globe's peoples come God's kids.

She began her amusement career as a child, singing in local radio and television in East Tennessee. At age Twelve she was appearing in Knoxville TV, and at Baker's dozen she was recording in the little label and appearing at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Once she graduated from either high inside 1964 she moved to Nashville, taking numerous traditional folkloric elements & popular music from either East Tennessee by owning her.

In May 30, 1966, at the age of Xx, she married Carl Dean, world health organization ran an asphalt-paving business, inside Ringgold, Georgia. She has remained by owning Dean, world health organization has universally shunned publicity & stayed in the background to an extraordinary degree, refusing to accompany his married woman to about each public appearance she has processed since their marriage.

Early Career
Parton's initial profits come as a ballad maker, using her songs existence covered by Kitty Wells, Hank Williams, Jr., Skeeter Davis, and a number of others. Within 1966 country star Bill Phillips recorded her song "Put it Off Until Tomorrow" (in which Parton provided uncredited harmony vocals); it reached total Captain hicks on the united states stock & index charts, and earned Parton much of notice. She signed by using Monument Records in late 1964, where she recorded the series of singles that failed to chart, prior to eventually sustaining the hit with "Dumb Blonde" (one of a pack songs she recorded in the time period of this period that she herself did non write), which reached a united states top Xx within 1967.

Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton: "Just Between You and Me," RCA, 1967

That equivalent month, Parton was asked to join a weekly syndicated united states music TV program hosted by Porter Wagoner, with whom she became half of the extremely successful duet team. She besides signed sustaining RCA Records, Wagoner's label, when you took this period of time, in which she would remain for the next 2 decades. Their 1st lone together, the handle of Tom Paxton's "The Last Thing on My Mind," reached the top 10 on the U.S. country charts in late 1967, and was the first of over a dozen duet singles to chart for them during the next several years.

Parton occurs as staggeringly successful ballad maker, by using begun by writing united states songs with hard elements of folk music inside them depending upon her upbringing in humble mountain surroundings. Her songs "Coat of Many Colors" and "Jolene" have become classics in the field, when have a total of others.

She stayed by using the Waggoner indicate & continued to record duets by using him for 7 years, so processed the break to be a solo creative person. Inside 1974, her song "I Will Always Love You" was released & attend #1 on a united states stock and index charts, though the only did does'nt "crossover" to the popular stock and index charts (when "Jolene" experienced done). In a area of the equivalent instance, Elvis Presley indicated that he wanted to cover a song. Parton was interested until Presley's manager, Colonel Tom Parker, told her that she would have to sign away half of a publication rights whenever Elvis recorded a song (when was the standard operating procedure for songs Elvis recorded). Parton refused & that guide is credited by owning helping produce her several hundreds to thousands of dollars inside royalties from either a song all over a years.

When you took a mid-1970s, Dolly experienced her eyes assail expanding her audience base. the number one step towards meeting this goal was her attempt a variety, Dolly. A indicate lasted but of these year, by using Dolly request away from her contract due to the stress it was stimulating her vocal chords. Love is Like a Butterfly, RCA, 1974

Breakout
Despite originally existence typecast within numerous circles as a "Country and Western" singer, Parton late experienced potentially greater commercial profits as a pop singer and actress. Her 1977 album "Here You Come Again" was her number one milliin-seller, & a title track became her first top-ten individual on the popular stock & index stock and index charts; numerous of her subsequent singles following on each pop and united states charts at the same time. Her albums in the time period of this period were further tightly produced & were designed specifically for pop/crossover profits.

Polly Darton, a character appearing on Sesame Street in the 1980s

Inside 1980, Jane Fonda decided Parton was a hone candidate for her forthcoming film, 9 to 5. She was wanting to find the brasslike Southern woman for a supporting role & felt a singer was hone. Partin was signed, & went on to steal a notices & score a major hit by owning the title song.

She wrote & performed "9 to 5" which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song. She received the Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song - Motion Picture. & she won 2 Grammy Awards, for Right Female United states Vocal Performance & Best United states Song. It reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was also #78 in American Film Institute's Century years, 100 songs.

She too received Golden Earth nominations for Right Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy & Future Star of the Season inside the Motion Picture - Female.

Parton was super selective just about her first film lesson, & experienced successes paired Burt Reynolds in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), for which she received another Golden World nomination for Better Actress withwithin the Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical, & in the supporting role when Truvy in Steel Magnolias (1989) co-starring Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, and Julia Roberts.

Within 1982, she recorded a second version of "I Will Always Love You" for The Right Little Whorehouse inside Texas; a 2nd version proved to become an additional #1 united states hit & too managed to email a popular stock and index charts, attend #53 in the United States.

Around 1986, she was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

A charted season, along by owning Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt, she released a decade-inside-a-making Trio album to critical acclaim. Too around 1987, Parton switched record labels, moving from RCA to Columbia Records, and took another stab at her have TV variety show, also highborn Dolly, which lasted only a single year.

Parton has likewise done voice act for animation, such as swimming herself in the TV series Alvin & the Chipmunks (episode: Urban Chipmunk) (1987) and her voice role as Katrina Eloise "Murph" Murphy in The Magic School Bus (episode: The Family Holiday Special) (1996).

Standing at an potentially Cinque feet tall (152 cm), Parton's physical trademark is her large bust; her petite dimensions elsewhere accentuate her Forty inch, DD ventral suction cup bosom. She has typically mocked this reputation by using quips like "I would have burned my bra in the 60s, but it would have taken the fire department three days to put it out," or even "The reason I have a small waist and small feet is that nothing grows well in the shade."

Within 1992, "I Will Always Love You" was performed by Whitney Houston on The Bodyguard soundtrack. Houston's version became the right-selling hit ever written & performed by a female singer, sustaining worldwide sales of $12,000,000. When Parton owned a song, she raked within brobdingnagian gains from either Houston's handle. A song was besides covered by music legend Kenny Rogers on his 1997 album "Always and Forever," which sold assibilate Four million copies worldwide.

Parton's previous starring role around the film was inside 1992's Straight Talk, opposite James Woods. She played the plainspoken carrier of a radio program that has population phoning-within by having problems. She late played an overprotective mother within Frank McKlusky, C.I. with Dave Sheridan, Cameron Richardson, and Randy Quaid.

Fallowing Parton (around commons by having numbers of more performing artist of her generation) was dropped from either united states radio stations' playlists in the mid-1990s, she rediscovered her roots by recording a series of critically acclaimed bluegrass albums, beginning with "The Grass is Blue" (1999) & including Grammy-winning "Little Sparrow" (2001), which was the theme tune of the super popular motion picture of the equivalent title. Her 2002 album "Halos and Horns" included a bluegrass version of the Led Zeppelin classic Stairway to Heaven.

Business
Parton occurs as shrewd businesswoman. She invested lot of her earnings into business ventures around her native East Tennessee, notably Pigeon Forge, which includes a theme park known as Dollywood and a dinner indicate known as ''Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede, resulting in a thriving tourism industry that draws visitors from large parts of the Southeastern and Midwestern United States, notably Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio. This area of the U.S., prefer virtually all areas of Appalachia, traditionally has been characterized by economic poverty. So, Parton put something back into a community in which she was born & raised. Dollywood presently occurs as large draw than Graceland, a Elvis Presley mansion.

She besides owns Sanddollar Productions, the film & television production company, which produces Buffy the Vampire Slayer amongst other shows.

She has reportedly turned down many offers to pose for Playboy'' magazine and similar publications. Russ Meyer wanted to make pic just about her breasts. Although she has admitted to getting a bit of numbers of cosmetic surgery (notably a breast lift), rumors that she got breast augmentation surgery remain uncorroborated.

Parton, alongside Johnny Cash, is one of the couple united states stars to exist as admired & acclaimed by fans from all walks of life. She said that she has hanker admired a look of a few pariah from either society (like woman of the street, whose hanker fingernails & large blond wigs inspired her), which has continued into her adult years.

Her function of the late 1990s & beyond has moved towards bluegrass and extra traditional folk styles.

Honors
She has the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6712 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood; the star on the Nashville Star Hike for Grammy winners; & a bronze sculpture on the courthouse lawn inside Sevierville, Tennessee.

Parton was honored around 2003 by having the benefit album known as "Just Because I'm a Woman." A creative person world health organization recorded versions of Dolly's songs include Melissa Etheridge ("I Will Always Love You"), Alison Krauss ("9 to 5"), Shania Twain ("Coat of Many Colors"), Me'Shell NdegéOcello ("Two Doors Down"), Norah Jones ("The Grass is Blue"), and Sinéad O'Connor ("Dagger Through the Heart").

Dolly Parton was awarded a Living Legend medal by the U.S. Library of Congress on April 14, 2004, for her contributions to the cultural heritage of the United States.

Hit singles
1967 "The Last Thing on My Mind" (with Porter Waggoner) (#7 United states) 1968 "We'll Get Ahead Someday" (sustaining Porter Wagoner) (#5 United states) 1969 "Just Someone I Used to Know" (by owning Porter Waggoner) (#7 United states) 1970 "Mule Skinner Blues" (#3 COUNTRY) 1970 "Joshua (song)" #108 U.S. (#1 United states) 1971 "Better Move it On Home" (by using Porter Wagoner) (#7 United states) 1971 "Coat of Many Colors" (#4 COUNTRY) 1972 "Touch Your Woman" (#6 United states) 1973 "If Teardrops Were Pennies (and Heartaches were Gold" (sustaining Porter Wagoner) (#3 United states) 1973 "Jolene" #44 U.S. (#1 United states) 1974 "I Will Always Love You" (#1 COUNTRY) 1974 "Please Don't Stop Loving Me" (#1 United states) 1975 "The Bargain Store" (#1 COUNTRY) 1975 "The Seeker" (#2 COUNTRY) 1976 "It's All I Can Do" (#3 United states) 1977 "Here You Come Again" #3 U.S. (#1 United states) 1978 "Two Doors Down" #19 U.S. (#1 United states) 1978 "Heartbreaker" #12 U.S. (#1 United states) 1979 "Baby I'm Burning" #25 U.S. 1979 "You're the Only One" (#1 United states) 1980 "Starting Over Again" #35 U.S. (#1 United states) 1980 "Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You (#1 COUNTRY) 1981 "9 to 5" #1 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY) 1981 "But You Know I Love You" #41 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY) 1982 "Single Women" (#8 COUNTRY) 1983 "Everything's Beautiful" (with Willie Nelson) (#7 COUNTRY) 1982 "I Will Always Love You" (1982 recording) #53 U.S. (#1 COUNTRY) 1983 "Islands in the Stream" (with Kenny Rogers) #1 U.S., #7 UK (#1 COUNTRY) 1984 "Save the Go Dance for Pine tree state" (#3 COUNTRY) 1984 "Tennessee Homesick Blues" (#1 COUNTRY) 1985 "Don't Call it Love" (#3 COUNTRY) 1985 "Real Love" (#1 COUNTRY) 1986 "Think About Love" (#1 COUNTRY) 1987 "To Know Him is to Love Him" (with Emmylou Harris) and Linda Ronstadt) (#1 COUNTRY) 1987 "Telling Me Lies" (with Emmylou Harris) and Linda Ronstadt) (#3 COUNTRY) 1988 "Wildflowers" (with Emmylou Harris) and Linda Ronstadt) (#1 COUNTRY) 1989 "Why'd Ya' Came Within On this text Lookin' Prefer That?" (#1 COUNTRY) 1989 "Yellow Roses" (#1 COUNTRY) 1991 "Rockin' Years" (#1 COUNTRY)

Charting albums
1978 "Heartbreaker" #27 U.S. 1978 "Here You Come Again" #20 U.S. 1978 "Dolly Parton/Both Sides" #24 UK 1979 "Great Balls of Fire" #40 U.S. 1981 "9 to 5 & Odd Jobs" #11 U.S. 1987 "Trio" (with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt #6 U.S. 1991 "Eagle When She Flies" #24 U.S. 1993 "Honky Tonk Angels" #42 U.S. 1993 "Slow Dancing sustaining a Moon" #16 U.S. 1997 "A Life in Music - Ultimate Collection" #38 UK 2001 "Little Sparrow" #30 UK 2001 "Gold - The Hits Collection" #23 UK 2002 "Halos & Horns" #37 UK 2003 "Ultimate" #17 UK 2005 "Those Were The Days"

Filmography
9 to 5 (1980) ... Doralee Rhodes The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) ... Mona Stangley Rhinestone (1984) ... Jake Steel Magnolias (1989) ... Truvy Jones Straight Talk (1992) ... Shirlee Kenyon The Beverly Hillbillies (1993) ... cameo as herself Frank McKlusky, C.I. (2002) ... Edith McKlusky Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005) .. cameo as herself

TV filmography
A Smoky Mountain Christmas (1986) ... Lorna Davis Wild Texas Wind (1991) ... Thiola "Large T" Rayfield Unlikely Angel (1996) ... Ruby Diamond Blue Valley Songbird (1999) ... Leanna Taylor

TV series
Heavens to Betsy (1994) (comedy) ... regular ''Mindin' My Own Business (1996) (comedy) ... regular

TV music & variety
The Porter Wagoner Show (1967-1974) (country music) ... regular singer Dolly (1976) (variety) ... host Dolly (1987-1988) (variety) ... host Reba (2004 TV series) Dolly Majors

Documentaries
The Nashville Sound (1970) Heartsong (1994) Our Country (2002) Uncut: The True Story of Hair (2002)

Trivia
The first cloned mammal was a sheep named "Dolly" in honor of Dolly Parton, because it was cloned from a mammary cell. She is believed to be a cousin of porn star Julia Parton. She reportedly told Sandra Bullock while they were rehearsing her scene in Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous'', "I obviously produce that Britney-Madonna kiss look tame."