Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton (born January 19, 1946 in Sevierville, Tennessee) is an American country music singer, songwriter and actress.
Born the fourth of twelve children, she started her entertainment career singing on local radio and television in eastern Tennessee. She moved to Nashville in the mid-1960s, and was invited to joined and cohost the Grand Ole Opry with Porter Wagoner. She brought into the Nashville Sound many traditional, folkloric elements present both in East Tennessee and popular music. Despite being typecast in many circles as a "Country and Western" singer, Parton has had commercial success as a pop singer and actress. Her work of the late 1990s and beyond has moved towards bluegrass and more traditional folk styles.
Parton is also a shrewd business woman. She has invested much of her earnings into business ventures in eastern Tennessee, notably Pigeon Forge which includes a theme park named Dollywood, resulting in a thriving tourism industry drawing people from large parts of the southeastern and midwestern US, notably, Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio. This region of the US, as most other areas of Appalachia, have traditionally been characterized by economic poverty.
In addition to her entertainment resumÃÂé, Parton is also noted for her large breasts. She has been quoted as saying, "I would have burned my bra in the 60s, but it would have taken the fire department three days to put it out."
Parton is a hugely successful songwriter, having penned the single "I Will Always Love You" which - as performed by Whitney Houston on The Bodyguard (1992) soundtrack - became the best-selling hit written and performed by a female vocalist, with worldwide sales of 12 million. Parton also earned an Academy Award nomination in 1981 for Best Original Song for the title track to the film Nine to Five.
After being dropped by country radio stations' playlists in the mid-1990s she re-discovered her roots by recording a series of critically acclaimed bluegrass albums including Grammy Award-winning Little Sparrow (2001).
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The first cloned mammal was a sheep named "Dolly" in honor of Dolly Parton, because it was cloned from a mammary cell.Selected filmography
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