Dolly Parton (born January 19, 1946) is a country music singer-songwriter, musician, actress, philanthropist, and businesswoman best recognized for her decades-long career.

Parton made her album debut in 1967 with Hello, I’m Dolly, which led to success throughout the rest of the 1960s (both as a solo artist and with a series of duet albums with Porter Wagoner), before her sales and chart peak came during the 1970s and continued into the 1980s.

Parton’s records did not sell as well in the 1990s, but she found commercial success again in the new century, releasing albums on different indie labels, including her label, Dolly Records

Who are Dolly Parton’s parents?

Dolly Parton was the daughter of Lee and Avie Lee, both of whom died in 2000 and 2003, respectively.

Dolly told the Christmas when all the kids agreed to forego their gifts so that Lee could get Avie Lee a wedding ring on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1990. “I must have been 8 or 10 years old, and my mother had never had a wedding ring,” said Dolly. “At the time, there were a lot of kids in the house, and Daddy decided he was finally going to get Momma a wedding ring.” Of course, this meant that no one else would receive any gifts. That is an expense.”

Even though they didn’t get anything for themselves that year, Dolly said, it was one of their finest Christmases because they were able to make their mother so happy.

Willadeene, David, Dolly, Robert Jr., Stella, Cassie, Randy, Larry, twins Floyd and Freida, and Rachel were among Lee and Avie Lee’s 12 children.
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Larry Lee, Lee and Avie Lee’s ninth child, died four days after birth in 1955. According to Fox News, Dolly told TV critics in 2015 that she had a particular link with her late brother since he was going to be “her baby.”

“Because there were so many of us, my mother used to say when we were born, ‘This one is gonna be you baby.'” That simply meant you had to take extra care of it. “You have to get up with it at night and rock it back and forth,” Dolly explained, adding that his death left her with “a lot of heartache.”

“Everything is difficult, but that is what makes your memories,” she added. That is what gives you your identity.”

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