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American country music singer, songwriter and philanthropist Dolly Parton died on 25 August 2026 in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 80.
Her publicist said she died after a brief battle with cancer while receiving care at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
She won 11 Grammy Awards and sold over 100 million records across a career spanning nearly six decades.
She wrote 'I Will Always Love You', which Whitney Houston's 1992 recording took to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for 14 weeks.
Her Imagination Library, founded in 1995, has gifted more than 300 million books to young children worldwide.
Born into a poor farming family in Tennessee, one of twelve siblings.
Wrote and performed the theme song of the film '9 to 5', earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.
Founded the Dollywood theme park at Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
Whitney Houston's cover of her song 'I Will Always Love You' spent 14 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Launched the Imagination Library, a free book-gifting programme for children up to age five.
Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Received the Kennedy Center Honors.
Received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Died in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 80.
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A book-gifting literacy programme founded by Dolly Parton in 1995 that mails free books to children from birth to age five.
A special Grammy honour for artists with outstanding lifetime contributions to recorded music; Parton received it in 2011.
The theme park founded by Parton at Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, in 1986.