Parton died at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville.Her death brings to an end the life of an artist whose influence stretched far beyond country music.

Dolly Parton's cause of death has been revealed as a brief battle with cancer, where she was hospitalized at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

The artist was a star performer in country music, and went on to become one of the genre's most recognizable and universally adored ambassadors to broader popular culture.