Biography

Dolly Parton is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best-known for her work in country music. She remains one of the most-successful female artists in the history of the country genre which granted her the title of 'The Queen of Country Music', with twenty-five number-one singles, and a record forty-one 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 tied with Reba McEntire as the only country artists with No. 1 singles in four consecutive decades. She is known for her distinctive soprano, sometimes bawdy humor, flamboyant dress sense and voluptuous figure. ("Jolene", "I Will Always Love You", "Here You Come Again", "9 to 5")