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">Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946[1])
is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist,
actress and philanthropist,
best-known for
her work in country
music.
In the four-and-a-half decades since her national-chart début, she remains one of the
most-successful female artists in the history of the country genre which
garnered her the title of 'The Queen of
Country Music',[2] with
twenty-five
number-one singles,[3] and a
record
forty-one top-10 country albums.[4] She
has the
distinction of having performed on a top-five country hit in each of the
last
five decades[5] and is
tied with Reba McEntire as
the only
country artists with No. 1 singles in four consecutive decades.[6]
She is known for her distinctive soprano,[7] sometimes bawdy humor, flamboyant dress sense and voluptuous figure.
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Dolly Rebecca Parton |
| Born | January 19, 1946 Sevierville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Genres | Country, country pop, bluegrass |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, actress, author, philanthropist, musician, businesswoman, advocate for children's education (Imagination Library) |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, banjo, autoharp, piano, drums, appalachian dulcimer, fiddle, harmonica, pennywhistle |
| Years active | 1959–present |
| Labels | Goldband (1959–1965) Monument (1965–1967) RCA (1967–1986) CBS (1987–1995) Rising Tide (1995–1998) Decca (1997–1998) Blue Eye (1998–1999) Sugar Hill (1998–2005) Dolly (2006–present) |
| Associated acts | Porter Wagoner, Kenny Rogers, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Shania Twain, Stella Parton, The Larkins, Altan, Billy Ray Cyrus, Willie Nelson, Alison Krauss |
| Website | dollypartonmusic.net dollyparton.com |
