Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist (philanthropy), best-known for her work in country music.

In the four-and-a-half decades since her national-chart (record chart) d�but, 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 single (single (music))s, and a record forty-one top-10 country albums. She has the distinction of having performed on a top-five country hit in each of the last five decades and is the only artist to score a number-one country single in each of the past four decades.

She is known for her distinctive soprano, sometimes bawdy humor, flamboyant dress sense and voluptuous figure.