About Dolly Parton 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 achieved her the title of 'The Queen of Country Music', with 25 number-one singles, and a record 41 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 mountain soprano, sometimes bawdy humor, flamboyant dress sense and voluptuous figure.