Dolly Rebecca Parton born January 19, 1946 is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, author, actress and philanthropist, known for her prolific work in country music.
In the four-and-a-half decades since her national-chart début, she remains the most-successful female artist in the history of the genre, with 25 number-one singles (a record for a female artist),and a record 42 top-10 country albums.She has the distinction of having performed on a top-five country hit in each of the last five decades and is the only artist to score a number-one country single in each of the past four decades.
She is known for her distinctive Tennessee-mountain soprano, sometimes bawdy humor, flamboyant dress sense and voluptuous figure.
In the four-and-a-half decades since her national-chart début, she remains the most-successful female artist in the history of the genre, with 25 number-one singles (a record for a female artist),and a record 42 top-10 country albums.She has the distinction of having performed on a top-five country hit in each of the last five decades and is the only artist to score a number-one country single in each of the past four decades.
She is known for her distinctive Tennessee-mountain soprano, sometimes bawdy humor, flamboyant dress sense and voluptuous figure.
