2021年4月14日 · Dolly Parton and Carl Dean have been married for half a century, but the couple never had children. Here’s why Dolly “wasn't meant to be” a mother, in her own words.

2021年6月17日 · Parton has always been open about her poverty-stricken childhood, documenting it in autobiographical songs, like her breakout 1971 single "Coat of Many Colors," which also inspired a TV movie...

2024年2月1日 · Dolly Parton was born into a world on the cusp of seismic change. She was the fourth of Avie Lee and Robert Parton’s 12 children. And she came into the world in a manner familiar to many East Tennesseans of her generation.

2024年1月19日 · Parton began performing as a child, singing on local radio and television programs in the East Tennessee area. By ten, she was appearing on The Cas Walker Show on both WIVK Radio and WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee.

2023年11月13日 · Dolly Parton was the fourth child of Avie Lee and Robert Lee Parton. The musician has said that even though they grew up incredibly poor, they made it clear that they treasured and loved all of their children: Willadeene, David, Denver, Bobby, Stella, Cassie, Larry, Randy, Floyd and his twin, Freida, Rachel, and — of course — Dolly.

She was the fourth of twelve children born to Robert Lee Parton, a farmer and construction laborer and Avie Lee. She later described her family to be economically backward. Dolly Parton’s family was inclined towards music and she took up singing from her mother.

2021年5月30日 · She was one of 12 kids in a one-bedroom cabin without electricity or running water. In an interview the “ 9 to 5 ” singer did in 1978, she spoke about the relationship she had with her...

2022年9月5日 · Dolly, the fourth of 12 Parton children, was born on January 19, 1946 at her parents’ farm home in the Tennessee mountains. It was bitterly cold. Snow had fallen the night before, and the...

2024年7月10日 · Dolly Parton's parents had 12 children together, including a set of twins. A few of her siblings went on to forge successful entertainment careers of their own. Dolly's brother Randy is also a singer, songwriter, and actor.

2024年12月10日 · Dolly Parton may not have any children of her own, but she's always had a big heart for kids, and that maternal instinct dates back to when she was a child herself.