Dolly-Parton

Dolly Parton escaped the struggles in her early life through her imaginative and creative imagination. Prior to learning how to read or write she wrote her own music. When she was 8years old, she purchased her first electric guitar and began to sing at a Knoxville Tenn Radio Station. In the same year, she recorded her first recording on Gold Band Records a tiny independent label. While in high school, she established herself in the community, but her ambition was bigger. In the exact day that she was able to graduate from high school, in 1964. Dumb Blonde was her first album to be charted for the first time on Monument Records. Around this time, Porter Wagoner was looking for a new girl singer for his television show that was syndicated. Parton was hired in the year 1966. She was signed to RCA Records in 1968, and then the Grand Ole Opry was founded in the year 1969. The band split in 1974, when her solo singles such as Joshua Coat of Many Colors & Jolene outsold the collaborations. The two split in 1974, Parton wrote the song I Will Always Love You for Wagoner and it climbed to Number. This was the first time a single was able to reach No.