Dolly Parton is an American singer, songwriter, actress, author, businesswoman, and philanthropist, who is worth $650 million. Dolly Parton has been writing and performing popular country songs for more than 50 years. She has released 41 top-ten country albums and 25 number-one singles.
Dolly is best known for her songs “9 to 5” and “I Will Always Love You,” which Whitney Houston performed for the feature film The Bodyguard. Throughout her career, she has sold over 100 million CDs as a solo artist. That does not include the hundreds of millions of records sold by other artists featuring her music.
Who is Dolly Parton?
Dolly Parton was born in 1946 in Sevier County, Tennessee, the fourth of twelve children. Her dad was a tobacco grower. She later described her family as impoverished, and she recalls hearing that her father gave a bag of oatmeal to the doctor who assisted her in birth. Music has always been an essential part of her life, and she gave many of her early concerts in churches.
Parton began appearing on The Cas Walker Show at the age of nine and later signed with Goldband Records, a modest Louisiana company. Dolly went to Nashville the day following her high school graduation in 1964. Her career as a songwriter came swiftly. She collaborated with an uncle, Bill Owens, in writing several charting singles.
Dolly has spent a considerable percentage of her income on philanthropic and entrepreneurial endeavors in her home state of Tennessee. Her theme park, Dollywood, is the 24th most visited theme park in the United States, with 3 million people each year. She had given and/or raised hundreds of millions of dollars for a variety of causes.
How old is Dolly Parton?
She is currently 77 years old.
What is Dolly Parton’s net worth?
She is estimated to be worth $650 Million.
What is Dolly Parton’s career?
Dolly signed with Monument Records in 1965, when she was 19 years old. She was originally advertised as a bubble gum pop vocalist. Her early pop tunes were unsuccessful. After one of her country songs reached #6 on the country charts being sung by another artist (Bill Phillips – with Dolly on harmony), Monument Records saw the light and abandoned their pop dreams for Dolly.
Dolly’s first single as a country artist, “Dumb Blonde,” peaked at number 24 on the country chart. Ironically, she did not author the song. It’s one of the few non-self-composed songs Dolly recorded at this period. Her second song “Something Fishy” peaked at number 17.
These two songs appeared on Dolly’s debut studio album, 1967’s “Hello, I’m Dolly”. The album also included her own versions of some songs she had composed that had become popular among other performers. The album reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot Country Albums chart.
That same year, Dolly was requested to make frequent appearances on Porter Wagoner’s weekly syndicated broadcast, “The Porter Wagoner Show”. Seeing her brilliance and unrealized potential, Wagoner quickly persuaded his label, RCA Victor, to sign Dolly. Porter also became her producer and purchased a 50% stake in Owe-Par, the publishing company she co-founded with her uncle Bill Owen. As a result, Porter was deeply invested in Dolly’s success.
Her second studio album’s first song, “Just Because I’m a Woman” in 1968, was a duet with Porter. Porter and Dolly would go on to release 13 studio albums together between 1968 and 1980. Their albums yielded 21 country chart singles, including the number-one hit “Please Don’t Stop Loving Me”.
Unfortunately, Dolly’s solo career struggled to take off for several years. Finally, in 1973, she scored a huge hit with the song “Jolene”. In February 1974, the song peaked at number one on the country chart and performed well on non-country charts around the world. Rolling Stone later ranked the song 217th out of 500 on its list of the Greatest Songs of All Time.
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