Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author,
multi-instrumentalist, actress and
philanthropist, best-known for her work in
country music.
In the four-and-a-half decades since her
national-chart début, she remains one of the most-successful female artists in the history of the country
genre which garnered her the title of 'The Queen of Country Music',
with twenty-five number-one
singles,
and a record forty-one top-10 country
albums.