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Dolly Parton has been a musician her entire life, and nothing seems to stop her from continuing to do what she loves.
was born on January 19, 1946, in Lokust Ridge, Tennessee, near the Smoky Mountains. She grew up poor: As one of twelve children, money was an issue.
But music was something that brought his family together. Her mother sang and played guitar, and Parton began learning more about music when she sang at a young age.
Dolly Parton inherited her guitar from her uncle. It wasn’t long before he started writing his own songs. By age 10, she had worked at various local television and radio stations in Knoxville, Tennessee, and at age 13, she made her national radio debut on the Grand Ole Opry. At that time, she was earning $20 a week.
Family and music went hand in hand for the Partons, and it was her uncle who helped her take the next step.
“I had two uncles who played: Uncle Bill, who helped me get a job, and Uncle Lewis, who was also a great guitar player,” he said. “He had a little Martin guitar that I loved, and when he saw how much I cared about my music, he gave me the Martin guitar. This was my treasure. Parton went to high school and graduated and placed first in Ama. In 1964, at the age of 18, Dolly Parton decided to focus on her music career and left home for Nashville, the mecca of country music.
“I had a dream,” he said. “And I had the talent. And I really believed it was going to happen,” I thought.
Dolly Parton at Spago in West Hollywood, California on March 10, 1983 (Photo: Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection) (via Getty Images)
Dolly becomes an instant star in Nashville came. He worked with Porter Wagoner on She the Porter Wagoner Show and the two became very popular. Parton and Wagoner released several country songs together and soon signed with RCA Records. 1971 had Parton’s first country hit, Joshua, and many more hits followed. One of them was, of course, ‘Jolene’.
The song contains only 200 words. But it became one of the best songs of the 20th century. Dolly Parton reached number one on the charts and the song was nominated for two Grammy Awards for Best Country Girl (studio and live version). Not only that, “Jolene” was ranked #217 on Rolling Stone magazine’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list published in 2004.