What are 3 interesting facts about Dolly Parton? In 2021 Dolly Parton celebrates her 75th birthday! In honor of the Smoky Mountain She’s a one of the most-honored music artists of all time Dolly Parton has had 26 songs reach Number 1 on the Billboard country charts – the most of any female artist. She’s had 42 career Top 10 country albums, a record for ANY artist. She’s also had 110 charted singles over the past 40 years in her career. With 25 of her albums certified as Gold, Platinum, or Multiplatinum, she’s had an impressive career in country music. Parton is the Guinness Book of World Records holder for not one, but two achievements: Most Decades with a Top 20 Hit and Most Hits on US Country Songs Charts by a Female Artist (107 total). She’s also been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Song. First, for “9 to 5” (1980) and then for “Travelin Thru” (2005). In 2020, she was the recipient of a Grammy award for her duet with For King & Country on the song God Only Knows. She’s known as a local philanthropist Through her Dollywood Foundation, Dolly created Dolly Parton’s Imagination library in 1995. Once a month, every month, Imagination Library mails a book to children from birth until they enter kindergarten. The foundation has grown substantially since that time, even expanding into Canada in 2006. In February 2018, Dolly was honored by the Library of Congress on account of the foundation mailing their 100 millionth book – which was her own children’s book “Coat of Many Colors” (2006). It was donated to the Library of Congress. Her work in literacy has earned her numerous awards. Dolly was even awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Tennessee. She started her foundation as a way to honor her father. Her father could not read, nor could he write. Before he passed away, he told Dolly he was more proud of her for Imagination Library than anything else she had ever done. She’s not the only singer in the family Music played a large part in Dolly Parton’s upbringing. The family lived in a fairly religious part of the county, the Greenbrier Valley, and singing in church was her earliest public appearance. Dolly began performing at the age of six. She was playing a homemade guitar at age 7 and played her first real guitar at the age of 8. Her mother, Avie Lee Parton, encouraged her children to sing. Dolly’s sisters Stella, Cassie, and Frieda also singers, as is her brother Randy. Her brother Floyd was a singer as well before he passed away in 2018.