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Set on a career in music, she then moved to Nashville the day after finishing high school in 1964.
Early Songs: “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You”
Country singers Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner perform onstage, circa 1967.
Parton’s singing career really started to take off in 1967. The couple met at a Nashville laundromat, the Wishy Washy, in 1964 and married in a private ceremony on May 30, 1966.
Throughout her illustrious career, Parton has produced numerous hits, including timeless classics like "Jolene," "I Will Always Love You," and "9 to 5." Her contributions to music have earned her multiple accolades, including 10 Grammy Awards and induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999. After the vaccine was available, Parton filmed herself receiving the shot and publicly urged her fans to get vaccinated as well, adapting her famous song “Jolene” with the words “Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine.”
Awards
Katy Perry, Dolly Parton, and Kacey Musgraves perform at the 2019 Grammy Awards.
Parton affectionately refers to herself as the "Book Lady," a title that underscores her connection to the children who benefit from her generosity. “He just loved going to the bank because she paid him so much attention,” Parton said, adding that it became a “running joke” between the two of them.
They never had children, and Parton, 79, has said it wasn’t meant to be, telling The Guardian in 2014 that the couple were actually “glad” it turned out that way as they got older.
For “9 to 5,” Parton also took home two Grammy Awards for Best Country Song and Best Female Country Vocal Performance and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.
Dolly’s Cup of Ambition
Parton next starred with Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise in the musical movie The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas in 1982, which helped to introduce a new generation to her song “I Will Always Love You.” In 1984, Parton starred in the musical comedy Rhinestone as a country singer who tries to turn an obnoxious New York City cab driver, played by Sylvester Stallone, into a successful country singer.
Over the years, Parton has continued to work as an actor in an array of movies that include Steel Magnolias (1989), Straight Talk (1992), Unlikely Angel (1996), Frank McKlusky, C.I. (2002), and Joyful Noise (2012).
The record also reached No. 3 the Billboard 200. In 1965, she and her uncle were signed by Fred Foster to Combine Publishing House and Monument Records.
The following year, Bill Phillips charted in the Top 10 twice thanks to two songs written by Parton and Owens: "Put It Off Until Tomorrow" and "The Company You Keep."
In May 1966, Parton married her husband, Carl Dean.
Parton was 18 when she met 21-year-old Dean outside the Wishy Washy Laundromat in Nashville in 1964.
They were married in Georgia against the wishes of her record label, which thought that marriage would hamper the singer's career.
"It was just my mother, and Carl, and me," Parton told CMT in 2016.
Located near her hometown, Parton said she invested in the park because, “I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.” Today, about 3 million people visit Dollywood annually.
Parton is the co-owner of The Dollywood Company, which owns and operates a number of properties and entertainment venues in addition to the Dollywood theme park.
Words can’t do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years,” Parton wrote in a statement. “When Whitney did it, I got all the money for the publishing and for the writing, and I bought a lot of cheap wigs,” Parton told Anderson Cooper when he asked her how she spent her royalties from the song.
The next year, Parton teamed up with Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette for the album Honky Tonk Angels.
She is a graduate of Syracuse University, where she studied English literature.
In addition to her literacy efforts, Parton has been actively involved in various charitable initiatives. Parton initially declined her Rock & Roll Hall nomination because her music wasn’t part of the rock genre and she didn’t “feel I have earned that right,” but she later accepted after learning other non-rock musicians had been inducted and that fans help vote for inductees.
In 2006, Parton received special recognition for her lifetime contributions to the arts as one of five artists feted at the annual Kennedy Center Honors.
“I guess my mama knew I was going to want to be a star,” Dolly later said about her mother’s choice for her first name.
Dolly grew up in rural Appalachia and was the fourth of 12 children, all of whom her mother delivered before turning 35. I just write what I feel and hope that it might turn out to be a “Jolene” or an “I Will Always Love You.” You can’t really purposefully try to do that.
She earned $20 million in royalties from Whitney Houston’s cover of “I Will Always Love You” alone.