Dolly-Parton

Born on Jan. 19 1946 on the 19th of January 1946 in Locust Ridge Tenn into a low-income family which would later have 12 children. Dolly Parton learned early to escape the hardships of life through her vivid and far-ranging imagination. She was writing songs before she learned to read or write. In 8 years, she got her first guitar. In the age of 11 when she was 11, she began singing on the local radio station in Knoxville, Tennessee. At the same time, she recorded her first album with Gold Band Records an independent small label. The singer established a name for herself in the local scene while still at the high school system, but she wanted to be on of having a larger stage. She moved to Nashville following her graduation in 1964. Her first charting hits with Monument Records included Dumb Blonde and Something Fishy both in 1967. Around this time, Porter Wagoner was looking for someone new to sing on his syndicated television show. Parton was hired in the year 1966. She joined RCA Records in 1968, and then the Grand Ole Opry was founded in 1969. Her departure from the show came, but in 1974, because her albums on her own like Joshua Coat Of Many Colors and Jolene beat out their collaborative albums. Parton, after the split of their relationship with Wagoner She wrote her hit song"I Will Never Love You and made it to the top spot at No. 1. for the first time in 1974.