August 25, 2026
File: US country music singer Dolly Parton performs on the Pyramid Stage, on the final day of the Glastonbury Festival of Music and Performing Arts on Worthy Farm in Somerset, southwest England, on June 29, 2014. Photo by LEON NEAL / AFP.
US country music legend Dolly Parton, who grew up poor in Tennessee and became a household name with hits like “Jolene,” has died at the age of 80, her family said Tuesday.
“Dolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus,” her nephew said in a video on social media. He said the multiple award-winning artist had “opened doors for generations of singers, songwriters, musicians, and dreamers from every walk of life.”
Back in 2008 at age 62, Dolly Parton released a single proclaiming she was “just a backwoods Barbie, too much makeup, too much hair.”
