Dolly Parton the Queen of Country Music, died at age 80
Dolly Parton passed away on *Tuesday, August 25, 2026* in Nashville at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, surrounded by loved ones. Her family said she had been battling cancer..
What we know
Career:: 60-year career, 49 studio albums, 25 No.1 hits on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart – the most for any female country artist
Hits: “Jolene,” “I Will Always Love You,” “9 to 5,” “Coat of Many Colors”
Awards 11 Grammy Awards including Lifetime Achievement
Beyond music: Starred in “9 to 5,” “Steel Magnolias,” created Dollywood, and donated hundreds of millions of books through her Imagination Library
Legacy: Called “a rhinestone life that shone bright enough for the world to see”. Tributes came in from Jane Fonda, Paul McCartney, and others e29f48b46aff38b4
Her nephew Bryan Seaver announced it in a video: _“She never saw a door she couldn’t open, and the doors she opened made and changed history”
A private memorial will be held for family. In lieu of flowers, the family asked for donations to her Imagination Library.
There have also been other country artists who passed in recent years like *Jeannie Seely* at 85 and *Helen Cornelius* at 83, but Dolly’s is the most recent and major headline.
