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| Name : | Dolly Parton |
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| Birth Name : | Dolly Rebecca Parton |
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| Profession : | actress, musician, producer, writer |
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| Date of Birth : | January 19, 1946 |
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| Place of Birth : | Sevierville, Tennessee, USA |
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| Height : | 5' |
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| Claim to fame : | Grammy-winning single Here You Come Again crossed over into the US Hot 100 pop charts (1977) |
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Born in a one-room cabin on the banks of the Little Pigeon River in East Tennessee, Dolly Parton grew up to become the queen of country music and transformed her humble origins into the stuff of myth at Dollywood, her wildly popular Smoky Mountains theme park. Performing on Knoxville radio as a singing guitarist by the time she was 11, she made her TV debut on the syndicated "The Porter Wagoner Show" in 1960 and moved to Nashville following her graduation from high school in 1964. She cultivated a "trashy" look early in her career, favoring bright red nails ("I needed to be colorful to look at"), bleach-blonde hair (replaced later by platinum wigs) and five-inch heals ("Because I can't find six-inch heels"), but her abiding trademark is her chest, two Tennessee mountains that have inspired a multitude of jokes, many told on herself by Parton (i....
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