Breaking! Country music icon, Dolly Parton is dead
By PAMELA EBOH
Iconic country music singer Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80.
Parton died just a year after the passing of her husband, Carl Dean.
A statement by issued by her team thus Tuesday evening, August 25, 2026 described Dolly Parton's legacy as one of love, compassion, and resilience."
The country legend sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and wrote over 3,000 songs in a career that spanned six decades.
The late country music singer was famously private about her personal life, but last year she announced that her husband Carl Dean, who was rarely seen with her in public, had died aged 82.
Describing her long marriage, she said they spent "many wonderful years together", adding: "Words can't do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years."
The Coat of Many Colours singer met Dean outside a laundromat on the first day she arrived in Nashville as an 18-year-old aspiring singer, and two years later they were married, in 1966.
Though the martiage did not produce any child, they shared a large and close-knit extended family. (Courtesy BBC reports)