“I still close my eyes and go home–I can always draw from that.”
-Dolly Parton (Dolly’s Childhood Home)
Dolly Rebecca Parton was born January 19, 1946, in Sevierville, Tennessee (Bio for Dolly Parton). She is best known for her signature looks and she is very proud of her looks. At a mere four feet eleven inches, this petite woman has a unique voice that is one-in-a-million. She is always seen in her platinum blonde wigs and her voluptuous figure. And, don’t forget her sparkling blue eyes along with her breathless voice. (Bio of Dolly Parton). Dolly Parton is best known for accomplishments as a country singer in the 20th Century.
She is the fourth child of twelve children to Robert Lee Parton, a tobacco sharecropper, and Avie Lee Parton. Dolly’s family had very little money. Her childhood home was a tiny, one-room cabin in the Smoky Mountains. There was only one bed in the entire house of which a total of the 14 people occupied. The dining table only seated six at a time. Dolly has always described her family as “dirt poor,” and she was not ever exaggerating (Dolly’s Childhood Home).
As a young girl, Dolly was introduced first to the sounds of gospel music. Her mother played a guitar and her grandfather, Rev. Jake Owens, was a fiddler and a song writer. The sounds of the precious music would …show more content…
As we were discussing the final paper as an option in class, Dolly Parton was the first and only the person to enter my mind. She has been in many different areas of my life as I have grown up. I remember being a little child playing on my grandfather’s farm and the sounds of classic country coming from the workshop. Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers were always a favorite. Or we watch the Grand Ole Opry specials on the television. At the time, I thought that was the worst thing in the world that I could be getting tortured with at the moment. Now I look back and I miss those