BusinessDay
Anthony Udugba
August 25, 2026
Dolly Parton, who turned rags into a coat of many colours and wore it to the stars, has died in Nashville aged 80.
She was the girl from the one-room cabin in Locust Ridge who never forgot the feel of scrap cloth under her mother’s needle. In “Coat of Many Colors,” the song that reached farthest and sank deepest, especially in places like Nigeria, where its tale of patched pride still travels from radio to radio, she told of a winter coat stitched from the odds and ends no one else wanted.
