| | Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, author, actress and philanthropist, known for her prolific work in country music.
In the four-and-a-half decades since her national-chart début, she remains the most-successful female artist in the history of country music, with 25 number-one singles (a record for a female artist), and a record 42 top-10 country albums. She also has the distinction of having performed on a top-five country hit in each of the last five decades and is the only artist to score a number-one country single in each of the past four decades.
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