Dolly-Parton

Dolly Parton, born Jan. 19, 1946, in Locust Ridge Tenn. to 12 children from a poor family children who would grow up together eventually, learned very early on how to conquer of her difficulties with her incredibly vivid imagination. Before she was able to write and read, she had already composed her own music. In 8 years, she was playing her first guitar. At age 11 when she was 11, she began singing on Knoxville Tenn's radio station. In the following year, Gold Band Records was a tiny independent record label. In high school she established herself in the community, but her ambition was bigger. When she was graduating in 1964, she relocated to Nashville. Dumb Blonde was her first album to be charted for the first time on Monument Records. Porter Wagoner had been looking for a female vocalist to perform on his show syndicated by him from the beginning. Parton got her first gig in 1967 and signed by RCA Records by 1968, she joined the Grand Ole Opry. She quit Wagoner's act in 1974 after her own hits such as Joshua Coat of Many Colors & Jolene oversold her collaborations. Parton, after the split of their partnership with Wagoner, wrote I Will Always Love You and made it to No. 1 for the first time in 1974.