{{Dolly Parton is a living legend, not just in the field of country music, but throughout the industry.}}
Country music legend Dolly Parton wowed 100,000 revellers at Glastonbury, but all the talk following her set centred around whether she was miming.
The sassy blonde answered the question in her own inimitable style, telling The Sun: “My boobs are fake, my hair’s fake, but what is real is my voice and my heart.”
Dolly Rebecca Parton is the fourth of 12 children born January 19, 1946 in Tennessee to a “dirt poor” tobacco farmer. Like many of her peers, Dolly’s serious brush with music started in church.
She made her TV debut in 1959 at the age of 12; a year later she was recording and had an appearance at the Grand Ole Opry (a premier country music event) under her belt.
After graduating from high school, Dolly moved to Nashville and fell in love with Carl Dean.
They were married on 30 May, 1966 and are still together, but he shuns the limelight. As Dolly was unable to have her own children, she threw herself into her career, writing songs and performing while she waited for her big break.
Debut album Hello, I’m Dolly was released in 1967. Off the back of it, Dolly teamed up with country star Porter Wagoner on his weekly TV series.
Soon, her fame grew bigger than his and when her single Joshua hit the charts in 1970, Dolly headed out on her own and never looked back.
In 1973, Jolene put her on the map and a year later, she released I Will Always Love You, the song immortalised by Whitney Houston.
Going on to even bigger commercial success as a pop singer, TV star, award winner and actress, Dolly has put the cherry on the icing on the cake by being a star attraction at Glastonbury at the age of 68.
She’s lived a lifetime and has some great quotes and one-liners to prove it as fans of Ricky Gervais’ The Office will recall; even David Brent has quoted Dolly! Check out some of her sayings here.
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