{"id":3663,"date":"2026-08-31T20:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T20:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2026-08-31T20:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T20:50:18","slug":"country-music-legend-dolly-parton-dies-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=3663","title":{"rendered":"Country Music Legend Dolly Parton dies at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dolly Parton, the American country music singer who rose from poverty in Tennessee to become a US cultural giant with hits like \u201cJolene\u201d and \u201cCoat of Many Colours\u201d, has died at 80, her family said Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus,\u201d her nephew Bryan Seaver said in a video on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Burna Boy - Higher [Official Music Video]\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eKzmRnetw-c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the multiple award-winning artist had \u201copened doors for generations of singers, songwriters, musicians, and dreamers from every walk of life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The family did not give a cause of death, but the singer-songwriter \u2014 who was also an actress, philanthropist, and extraordinarily successful businesswoman \u2014 had spoken about her recent ill health. Her husband Carl Dean died last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump ordered the lowering of American flags to half-staff across the United States for a week for Parton, calling her passing a \u201ctrue loss for millions of people\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere has never been anyone like her, and never will,\u201d Trump posted on his Truth Social network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In May, Parton had announced the cancellation of a series of Las Vegas concerts, citing ongoing health concerns. In videos posted to her social media accounts, she said that while treatment for an unspecified illness was going well, she was not ready to be performing on stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parton lived her entire adult life in the heart of Americana, folk and country music. The day after graduating from high school, she struck out for the country music capital Nashville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By 1967, at age 21, she was among the most recognised figures in American music, having joined Porter Wagoner\u2019s syndicated country music television show that broadcast her voice and face into millions of US homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parton was prolific in a career spanning six decades, during which she penned some 3,000 tunes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They included the soundtrack smash hit \u201c9 to 5\u201d, \u201cIslands In the Stream\u201d, and the iconic ballad \u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d, which became an international success for Whitney Houston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Releasing 49 studio albums and more than 100 compilation and collaboration albums, she earned the title of \u201cqueen of country music\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBy her example, we believed that anything was possible. She never saw a door she couldn\u2019t open, and the doors she opened made and changed history,\u201d her nephew said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parton \u2014 never one to downplay her striking looks \u2014 essentially wrote the book on how a woman can rule the airwaves in a male-dominated industry, ultimately becoming an American treasure whose songs were covered by the likes of Shania Twain, Sinead O\u2019Connor and the White Stripes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/2026\/08\/25\/country-music-legend-dolly-parton-dies-at-80\/\">(Channels)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolly Parton, the American country music singer who rose from poverty in Tennessee to become a US cultural giant with hits like \u201cJolene\u201d and \u201cCoat of Many Colours\u201d, has died at 80, her family said Tuesday. \u201cDolly has lived in the light and is in the arms of Jesus,\u201d her nephew Bryan Seaver said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3714,3713,2203,55,3715,57,3564],"class_list":["post-3663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-carl-dean","tag-country-music","tag-dolly-parton","tag-donald-trump","tag-porter-wagoner","tag-united-states","tag-whitney-houston"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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