Dolly Parton ~ Similar Artists
2 April 1947, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Harris was raised in North Carolina, later attending the University Of North Carolina on a drama scholarship. Starting as a folk singer, Harris tried her luck in the late 60s in New York's Greenwich Village folk clubs, making an album for...
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Dixie Chicks
- 68% match to Dolly Parton
This female trio's beguiling mixture of bluegrass, straight country and pop shook up the contemporary country scene in the late 90s. Raised in Texas, USA, sisters Martie Maguire (Martie Erwin, 12 October 1969; mandolin/fiddle) and Emily Robison (b. Emily Erwin, 16 August 1972;...
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Reba McEntire
- 55% match to Dolly Parton
28 March 1955, Chockie, Oklahoma, USA. One of four children, McEntire's family owned a 7,000-acre ranch and participated in rodeos, a background which later inspired the song "Daddy". She sang with her sister Susie and brother Pake McEntire as the Singing McEntires, and in 1972,...
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Loretta Lynn
- 53% match to Dolly Parton
Loretta Webb, 14 April 1935, Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, USA. Lynn is a coalminer's daughter, being the second of the eight children of Ted and Clara Webb. She is one-quarter Cherokee and her name came from her mother's fondness for movie star Loretta Young. She was raised in a...
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Patsy Cline
- 53% match to Dolly Parton
Virginia Patterson Hensley, 8 September 1932, Gore, near Winchester, Virginia, USA, d. 5 March 1963, Camden, Tennessee, USA. Her father, Sam Hensley, already had two children from a previous marriage when he married Hilda, Patsy's mother - a woman many years his junior. Hilda...
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