Dolly Parton: Life of the music legend whose songs touched millions
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Dolly Parton: The life of a legendary country singer Dolly Parton, the country singer from the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, will be remembered for her songs that told beautiful stories so honestly, such as Coat of Many Colors, Jolene and I Will Always Love You.
多莉*帕顿：传奇乡村歌手的生活 来自田纳西州烟雾缭绕的乡村歌手多莉*帕顿（Dolly Parton）将因她的歌曲而被人们铭记，这些歌曲如此诚实地讲述了美丽的故事，例如许多颜色的外套，Jolene和我将永
In a seven-decade career, Parton won 10 Grammy awards, sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and wrote in excess of 3,000 songs.
在70年的职业生涯中，Parton赢得了10项格莱美奖，在全球销售了超过1亿张唱片，并创作了超过3,000首歌曲。
Parton took her writing seriously, and considered herself a songwriter over everything else.
帕顿认真对待她的写作，并认为自己是其他一切的作曲家。
"It's my way of expressing myself," she said. "It's my therapy.” She was also a savvy businesswoman who wasn't afraid to make tough decisions. Armed with a quick wit and southern charm, she took control of her showbusiness career that spanned more than 60 years.
"这是我表达自己的方式，"她说。 "这是我的治疗。” 她也是一位精明的女商人，不怕做出艰难的决定。 凭借敏捷的机智和南方的魅力，她控制了她跨越60多年的演艺事业。
Dolly Rebecca Parton was born in 1946, the fourth of 12 children, into a poor farming family who lived in a one-bedroom cabin in Tennessee. Her father, Robert Lee Parton, was a tobacco farmer and paid a missionary a sack of cornmeal for delivering her.
多莉*丽贝卡*帕顿（Dolly Rebecca Parton）出生于1946年，是12个孩子中的第四个，进入一个贫穷的农业家庭，住在田纳西州的一间卧室小屋里。 她的父亲罗伯特*李*帕顿（Robert Lee Parton）是一名烟草农民，并付给一位传教士一袋玉米面送她。
There was already music in the family - her mother, Avie Lee, sang folk songs all the time and her aunt played the guitar and wrote songs.
家里已经有了音乐-她的母亲Avie Lee一直唱民谣，她的阿姨弹吉他并写歌。
During some of Parton's earliest performances, her uncle, Bill Owens, accompanied her on the guitar - formative years for the future music legend.
在帕顿最早的一些演出中，她的叔叔比尔*欧文斯（Bill Owens）陪伴她度过了未来音乐传奇的吉他形成岁月。
From the age of six, she sang in the local church where her grandfather was the pastor, and was performing on her local TV station by the time she was a teenager.
从六岁起，她在当地的教堂唱歌，她的祖父是牧师，并在她十几岁的时候在当地的电视台表演。
In 1959, when she was 13 years old, Parton performed with Uncle Bill at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville - a live broadcast that is regarded as country music's biggest stage.
1959年，当她13岁的时候，Parton在纳什维尔的Grand Ole Opry与Bill叔叔一起演出-这是一个被认为是乡村音乐最大舞台的现场直播。
She was introduced by Johnny Cash and received three encores.
她被约翰尼*卡什介绍，并获得了三个安可。
Nineteen-year-old Dolly Parton in Nashville, 1965 During her teenage years, Parton began to model herself on a local character who was known as the “town tramp”.
十九岁的多莉*帕顿在纳什维尔，1965年 在她十几岁的时候，帕顿开始在一个被称为"小镇流浪汉"的当地人物身上做模特。
The lady wore bright red nail polish, low-cut tops and high heels - young Dolly thought she was beautiful.
这位女士穿着鲜红色的指甲油，低胸上衣和高跟鞋-年轻的多莉认为她很漂亮。
When people said to her: “She ain’t nothing but trash”, Parton would reply: "Well, that’s what I’m gonna be when I grow up”.
当人们对她说："她只不过是垃圾"时，帕顿会回答："好吧，这就是我长大后的样子"。
Parton sang “I’m just a backwards Barbie / too much make-up, too much hair”, but her image was both a coat of armour and an astute disguise that helped get her noticed in showbusiness.
帕顿演唱了"我只是一个倒退的芭比娃娃/化妆太多，头发太多"，但她的形象既是一件盔甲，也是一个精明的伪装，帮助她在演艺界引起注意。
She would get ahead of the jokes by making them first, and had a quick and simple response for anyone who suggested she should tone it down: "Go to hell."
她会先开玩笑，然后对任何建议她应该淡化的人做出快速而简单的回应： “去死吧。”
Parton said she felt better in bright colours and shiny clothes on stage: "You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap" After graduating from high school in 1964, she moved to Nashville to launch her singing career and met her future husband, Carl Dean, on her very first day.
帕顿说，她在舞台上穿着鲜艳的颜色和闪亮的衣服感觉更好："你会惊讶于看起来这么便宜的成本" 1964年高中毕业后，她搬到纳什维尔开始她的歌唱事业，并在她的第一天遇到了她未来的丈夫卡尔迪恩。
They married two years later and remained together until his death in 2025.
他们两年后结婚，一直在一起，直到他在2025去世。
In Nashville, Parton's singing caught the eye of country performer Porter Wagoner, who hired her to perform on his television programme.
在纳什维尔，Parton的歌声引起了乡村表演者Porter Wagoner的注意，后者聘请她在他的电视节目中表演。
Over the next seven years, the pair became one of country music's most popular duos, releasing so many duets that many fans assumed they were a couple.
在接下来的七年里，这对组合成为乡村音乐最受欢迎的二重奏之一，发行了如此多的二重唱，以至于许多粉丝认为他们是一对夫妇。
But their relationship was a complicated one, and as Parton's solo career started to rise, so did tensions behind the scenes.
但他们的关系是一个复杂的关系，随着帕顿的独唱生涯开始上升，幕后的紧张局势也开始上升。
Writing in her book Star of the Show: My Life on Stage, Parton said Wagoner saw her success away from his show as a "threat".
在她的书中写道明星秀：我在舞台上的生活，帕顿说瓦格纳看到她的成功远离他的节目作为一个"威胁"。
Dolly Parton with Porter Wagoner on the set of his TV show in 1967 While travelling with Wagoner on a tour bus in 1969, Parton wrote Coat of Many Colors, a beautifully emotive tale of how she grew up poor, but rich with love.
多莉*帕顿与波特*瓦格纳在1967年的电视节目集 在1969年与瓦格纳一起乘坐旅游巴士旅行时，帕顿写了许多颜色的外套，这是一个美丽的情感故事，讲述了她如何贫穷，但充满爱。
Scrawled on the back of one of Wagoner's dry cleaning receipts, it was rated by Rolling Stone magazine, external as her second best-ever song.
在Wagoner的干洗收据之一的背面潦草，它被Rolling Stone杂志评为她的第二首有史以来最好的歌曲。
Years later, Parton named her own children's book Coat of Many Colors, and it was the name of a 2015 TV movie based on her life.
多年后，Parton为她自己的儿童书命名了多种颜色的外套，这是一部基于她生活的2015年电视电影的名字。
"It's a song that's just stood by me... it's created a life of many colours for me," she said.
"这是一首刚刚站在我身边的歌。.. 它为我创造了多种颜色的生活，"她说。
Dolly Parton won several awards for her made-for-TV movie Coat of Many Colors Despite being unable to read sheet music, Parton played several instruments including the banjo, harp, piano and saxophone.
多莉·帕顿凭借她的电视电影《多彩外套》获得了多个奖项 尽管无法看谱，帕顿仍演奏了多种乐器，包括班卓琴、竖琴、钢琴和萨克斯。
She had her first number one hit - and first Grammy nomination - with the song Joshua in 1971 and finally left The Porter Wagoner Show in 1974 to concentrate on her solo career.
1971年，她凭借歌曲《Joshua》获得了首支冠军单曲——并首次获得格莱美提名，1974年离开《波特·瓦格纳秀》，专注于个人事业。
To say goodbye to him, she wrote I Will Always Love You, a song that many think is about two lovers parting ways. "That's the prettiest song I ever heard," Wagoner cried when he first heard it, her website says.
为了向他告别，她写了《I Will Always Love You》，这首歌许多人认为是关于两位恋人分别的故事。 "这是我听过最美的歌，"瓦格纳第一次听到时感慨道，她的网站写道。
The same year, Elvis Presley was set to record a cover of the song, but Parton pulled the deal when his manager demanded half of the songwriting rights.
同年，埃尔维斯·普雷斯利原计划录制这首歌的翻唱版本，但当帕顿的经纪人要求获得一半的词曲创作权时，他取消了合作。
She cried all night at the difficult decision, and Priscilla Presley later told her that Elvis sang the song to her during their divorce.
她为这个艰难的决定哭了整晚，普里西拉·普雷斯利后来告诉她，猫王在离婚时唱了这首歌给她听。
In 1992, Whitney Houston transformed it into a now-iconic power ballad.
1992年，惠特尼·休斯顿将其改编成如今标志性的抒情曲。
Parton said she was driving when she first heard the cover and had to pull over: “When I heard her go from the a cappella into the music part, I honestly thought I was going to have a heart attack, it was one of the most overwhelming things.” Houston's cover of Parton's “sad little country song” was one of the proudest moments of her life, she said.
帕顿说她第一次听到翻唱时正在开车，不得不靠边停车："当我听到她从无伴奏合唱进入音乐部分时，我真的以为自己要心脏病发作了，那是最压倒性的感觉之一。" 休斯顿翻唱帕顿的"悲伤小乡村歌曲"是她一生中最自豪的时刻之一，她说。
Parton re-recorded the song for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, a 1982 film in which she starred and was nominated for a Golden Globe for best actress.
帕顿为1982年电影《德州最佳妓院》重新录制了这首歌，该片她主演并获得金球奖最佳女主角提名。
Another of her most famous songs was released in 1974 - Jolene.
她的另一首最著名的歌曲于1974年发行——《Jolene》。
Showing her aching vulnerability, it's about a bank clerk with flaming locks of auburn hair who flirted with her husband.
影片展现了她痛苦的脆弱，讲述了一位拥有火红红发的银行职员与丈夫调情的故事。
"Jolene, I'm begging of you, please don't take my man," she pleads.
"乔琳，我求你了，请不要带走我的男人，"她恳求道。
Parton said her husband, who was notoriously private, was a bit embarrassed by the song.
帕顿说，她的丈夫以低调著称，对这首歌感到有些尴尬。
But it was nothing serious - just a running joke between them: "I was saying, 'Hell, you're spending a lot of time at the bank.
但没什么大不了的——只是他们之间的一个玩笑："我说，'见鬼，你最近在银行待了很久。
I don't believe we've got that kind of money.'" The song has been covered by many artists including The White Stripes, Miley Cyrus and Beyoncé, who changed up to the lyrics to the more ominous: "I'm warning you, don't come for my man."
我不相信我们有那么多钱。'" 这首歌被许多艺术家翻唱，包括The White Stripes、麦莉·赛勒斯和碧昂丝，碧昂丝改唱了更阴郁的歌词："我警告你，别来找我的男人。"
In the years to come, Dolly Parton's success only grew, with more hits, nominations and awards - she won her first Grammy in 1978 for Here You Come Again.
随后几年，多莉·帕顿的成功不断扩大，获得了更多热门歌曲、提名和奖项——她于1978年凭借《Here You Come Again》赢得了她的第一个格莱美奖。
"If you see someone without a smile, give 'em one of yours": Parton performing in California in 1978 It was the theme song that Dolly Parton wrote for the 1980 movie 9 to 5 that fully propelled her to stardom.
"如果你看到有人没有笑容，就给他们一个你的笑容"：1978年帕顿在加州的表演 正是多莉·帕顿为1980年电影《朝九晚五》创作的主题曲，彻底让她一举成名。
Actress Jane Fonda, who produced and starred in the film about women being discriminated against in the workplace, made a deal with Parton - she'd star in the film if she could also write the theme song.
女演员简·方达曾制作并主演这部关于职场女性受歧视的电影，她与帕顿达成协议——如果她能写主题曲，她愿意出演电影。
Realising her nails clicking together sounded like a typewriter, she wrote 9 to 5 while waiting around on set.
意识到指甲咔嗒作响像打字机一样，她在片场等待时朝九晚五写作。
Fonda said she realised straight away that it wasn't just a theme song - it was an anthem. The film was a big success at the box office and the song won several awards, including a Golden Globe. Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton in a scene from 9 to 5 Parton was a successful and shrewd businesswoman, and in 2022 was listed by Forbes as one of America's richest self-made women, external.
方达说她立刻意识到这不仅仅是一首主题曲——它是一首国歌。 该片在票房上取得了巨大成功，歌曲获得了包括金球奖在内的多个奖项。 简·方达、莉莉·汤姆林和多莉·帕顿在《朝九晚五》中的一幕 帕顿是一位成功且精明的女商人，2022年被《福布斯》列为美国最富有的白手起家女性之一，外在女性。
"I look like a woman but I think like a man.
"我看起来像女人，但我思考得像男人。
I've done business with men who think I'm as silly as I look.
我和那些觉得我和外表一样傻的男人做过生意。
By the time they realise I'm not, I've got the money and gone," she once said.
等他们发现我不是，我已经拿了钱就走了，"她曾这样说。
Her physical appearance - the costumes, wigs, long painted nails and high heels - were merely a facade of a stereotypical “dumb blonde”.
她的外貌——服装、假发、长指甲油和高跟鞋——只是典型"笨金发女郎"的假象。
But she always said she knew she wasn't dumb "and I also know that I'm not blonde".
但她总说她知道自己不傻，"我也知道我不是金发"。
She had her own record label, Dolly Records, and co-owned The Dollywood Company, which manages entertainment venues, a theme park, a water park and a resort. In 1986, she opened her Dollywood amusement park in the foothills of her beloved Smoky Mountains.
她拥有自己的唱片公司Dolly Records，并共同拥有The Dollywood Company，该公司管理娱乐场所、主题公园、水上乐园和度假村。 1986年，她在心爱的烟雾山脚下开设了多莉乐园。
As well as rollercoasters, it is home to the largest sanctuary for non-releasable bald eagles in the world.
除了过山车，它是世界上最大的不可释放秃鹰的避难所。
Its rehabilitation and breeding work has won awards and in 2007, the bald eagle was removed from the endangered species list.
它的康复和繁殖工作赢得了奖项，2007年，秃鹰被从濒危物种名单中删除。
Parton, pictured at Dollywood in 1993, said she wanted to build a place where the culture of the Smoky Mountains could be celebrated Despite her wealth and success, Parton remained humble and supported the communities where she grew up.
1993年在多莱坞拍摄的帕顿说，她想建立一个可以庆祝烟雾山文化的地方 尽管她的财富和成功，帕顿仍然谦虚，并支持她成长的社区。
Inspired by her father who couldn’t read or write, she launched the Imagination Library in 1999, which gave free books to children in Tennessee. It has since expanded to Australia, the UK, Ireland and Canada, sending out millions of free books every year. Her non-profit organisation, The Dollywood Foundation, has funded scholarships, hospitals and donated to flood and wildfire victims.
受到无法阅读或写作的父亲的启发，她于1999年推出了Imagination Library，该图书馆为田纳西州的孩子们提供免费书籍。 此后，它已扩展到澳大利亚，英国，爱尔兰和加拿大，每年发送数百万本免费书籍。 她的非营利组织多莱坞基金会（Dollywood Foundation）资助了奖学金，医院，并向洪水和野火受害者捐款。
In 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic griped the world, Parton donated $1m (£716,000) to the Vanderbilt University Medical Centre which helped to fund the Moderna vaccine. How Dolly Parton became the world’s best-loved celebrity In later years, Parton had to postpone or cancel several shows for health treatment.
2020年，随着Covid-19大流行席卷全球，Parton向范德比尔特大学医疗中心捐赠了100万美元（716,000英镑），该中心帮助资助了Moderna疫苗。 多莉·帕顿如何成为世界上最受喜爱的名人 晚年，帕顿因健康问题不得不推迟或取消多场演出。
In May 2026, she postponed an upcoming Las Vegas residency because of treatment for kidney stones, saying it would take some time to heal and be "stage-performance ready".
2026年5月，她因肾结石治疗推迟了即将到来的拉斯维加斯驻场演出，表示需要时间恢复并"准备好舞台表演"。
"I can't be dizzy carrying around banjos, guitars and such on five-inch heels - and you know that I'm going to be wearing them," she said in a video message. "Not to mention all those heavy rhinestone outfits, the big hair, my big... uh, personality," she joked. Parton amazed fans when she performed at the NFL Thanksgiving half-time show in 2023, aged 77 Parton spoke graciously throughout her career with humour and intelligence.
"我不能因为穿着五英寸高跟鞋背着班卓琴、吉他什么的而感到头晕——你也知道我会穿它们，"她在视频中说。 "更别提那些厚重的水钻服装，大发型，还有我那个......呃，个性，"她开玩笑道。 2023年，77岁的帕顿在NFL感恩节中场秀上表演，令粉丝们惊叹不已 帕顿在整个职业生涯中都以幽默和智慧的优雅表达。
She steered clear of politics, saying she didn't want to alienate half her audience.
她避开政治，表示不想疏远半数听众。
She was a courageous and talented trailblazer for country music at a time when women were not taken seriously in the industry, especially as solo artists.
她是一个勇敢和有才华的乡村音乐开拓者，当时女性在这个行业没有被认真对待，特别是作为独唱艺术家。
Parton said she hoped to be remembered for her songwriting and as somebody who took her work seriously, but not herself. She once offered this advice: “Never ignore your roots, your home, or your hair."
帕顿说，她希望人们记住她的歌曲创作，并作为一个认真对待她的工作的人，而不是她自己。 她曾经提出过这样的建议："永远不要忽视你的根，你的家或你的头发。"
It's guidance that she stayed true to throughout her life.
这是她一生忠实的指导。
Tributes and reaction: Dolly Parton dies aged 80
致敬与反应：多莉·帕顿逝世，享年80岁
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