Dolly Parton

Born in January 1946, Dolly Parton is a well-known American singer. She started singing since her childhood. She started with singing on local radio and TV programmes aired in East Tennessee. She appeared on "The Cas Walker Show" on WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee at the age of 9 and at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee at the age of 13.

Dolly Parton is not only a singer but also a songwriter, composer, author, actress and a philanthropist. She had been touring extensively from the late 1960s until the early 1990s. Since the early 1990s, her concert appearances were restricted to one weekend a year at her Dollywood theme park benefiting her Dollywood Foundation. After a break spanning an entire decade, she decided to hit the road in 2002 and performed in 18 cities to promote the "Halos & Horns" CD. In 2004, Dolly Parton performed at mid-sized stadium venues in 36 cities spread across the US and Canada with her "Hello I'm Dolly" tour, with a sold out nearly 140,000 tickets. It was the tenth-biggest country tour of the year and grossed more than $6 million. She decided on organising her first world tour after many years, which hit 17 cities in 21 dates and ran from March 6 through April 3, 2007.

Dolly Parton has come up with many compilations and the latest one is the very best of dolly parton, which was released in 2007. Dolly Parton has also scheduled many concerts in 2007, the tickets of which are easily available online.