Dolly-Parton

Dolly Parton, who was born in Locust Ridge Tenn. on January. 19. 1946 to a low-income family, with twelve kids later on, realized early that she could escape the hardships of her life by using a imaginative mind. Before she learned to read and write Dolly Parton was composing her own music. Her first guitar was given by her mother when she was eighteen. The singer began her singing career at the Knoxville Tenn station by the age of eleven. The same year she released her first recording on Gold Band Records a tiny independent label. At the age of 16, she established herself in the community, but her dream was greater. After she finished her high school, in 1964, she moved to Nashville. Dumb Blonde was her first record to chart at the top of Monument Records. Porter Wagoner began looking for female singers to join his television show that was syndicated approximately the exact at the same time. Parton took the job in 1966, she joined RCA Records in 1968, and the Grand Ole Opry was founded in 1969. The show ended in 1974 when her solo albums like Joshua Coat of Many Colors and Jolene were out-charting their collaborations. Parton, after the split of their collaboration with Wagoner, wrote I Will Always Love You and made it to Number. The first time a song reached No.