Dolly Rebecca Parton

Dolly Rebecca Parton was created on the 19th of January 1946 in Pittman Center (Tennessee). She was the daughter of Avie Lee Parton and Robert Lee Parton in Sevierville. Parton is a domestic worker and Parton is a tobacco farmer. She appeared featured on Knoxville TV at 12 years old. When she was 13, she had a recording contract with a small label, and performing at the Grand Ole Opry. She relocated to Nashville in 1964 to begin her singing career after she had graduated from high school. She began to fall in love with Carl Dean, who ran an asphalt-paving business. They married on May 30 in 1966, and remain together. Porter Wagoner saw her singing and hired her to appear on The Porter Wagoner Show (1961). She was a part of The Porter Wagoner Show for seven years. Their duets were well-known and she was asked to join him on the Grand Ole Opry. In 1970, when her hit song "Joshua", reached the top spot, her popularity was so great that she was unable to be able to compete with his. In 1974, she set out alone and recorded duets with him. The singer had left and was a solo performer in 1974. Dolly was a massive success as a singer/songwriter. Dolly has won numerous Country Music Association awards (1968, 1970, 1971, 1975, 1976). The diminutive (5'0") beauty was a perfect fit for television. By the mid-1970s, she was appearing regularly in TV specials and talk shows, and before getting her own Dolly (1976). In 1977, Dolly got her first Grammy award: Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her song "Here You Come Again." Dolly's first appearance in a film was in 9-to-5 (1980) and she earned an Oscar nomination for her song title and Grammy awards 2 and 3. Also, she won Grammy awards 2, 3, Best Country Song and Best Female Country Vocal Performance, for the track "Nine To Five." Further fame was earned through her appearances in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) and as well as Rhinestone (1984), with the hit song "Tennessee Homesick Blues". Dolly Parton Enterprises, worth $100 million, is her biggest. Dollywood was established in Pigeon Forge in Tennessee in 1986 in celebration of her Smoky Mountain roots. She was a part of the show Dolly (1987 TV series) as her character. In 1988 she was awarded another Grammy: Best Country Performance Duo or Group with Vocals for "Trio".