Dolly Parton, Queen of Country Music, Dies at 80 After Health Issues

• Nation music legend Dolly Parton has died at age 80, her household introduced on August 25.
• The singer-songwriter’s profession spanned a number of a long time and earned her many accolades.
• Her legacy included 11 Grammy wins (together with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award), roles in characteristic movies, and a musical impressed by her life.
• She was preceded in loss of life by Carl Thomas Dean, with whom she was married for almost 60 years, who died in March 2025.

Dolly Parton, the queen of nation music, has died on the age of 80.

The singer-songwriter’s illustrious profession spanned a number of a long time and included 11 Grammys (together with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award), in addition to roles in characteristic movies like “Metal Magnolias” and in “Dolly: A True Unique Musical,” which was reportedly set to open within the coming months.

Her well being had just lately been in decline following the loss of life of her husband of 60 years, Carl Thomas Dean, in March 2025.

Parton’s explanation for loss of life had not but been introduced, however the information of her passing was shared by her nephew Bryan Seaver in an Instagram video on August 25.

“My title is Bryan Seaver, son of Cassie Parton, and I’m representing the Parton and Owens household at the moment saying the passing of my aunt, Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean, Sister, Sis and Granny to at least one technology and Gigi to the subsequent,” he mentioned within the video.

“This video announcement is one thing Dolly requested of me years in the past, earlier than I totally absorbed it as a future actuality. As her head of safety for greater than 20 years, a task my father Larry held earlier than me, I’ve imagined the heaviness of this second however haven’t really felt it till now. It’s an honor, an honor that’s blended with absolute delight and nice disappointment. However disappointment lies with us, not with Dolly. Dolly has lived within the gentle and is within the arms of Jesus, absolutely met by Carl, her mother and father and numerous others who’ve watched her and longed to satisfy her within the heavens.”

Seaver mentioned within the put up that Parton had informed him she needed to “relaxation in a ravishing mattress of plush cotton as a result of after a lifetime of sporting heavy rhinestones, she lastly deserves to be snug and have some relaxation.”

“Relaxation in peace, Aunt Dolly — Aunt, Granny, Gigi. Might God bless Dolly Parton, and should God bless you all. She is going to all the time love you,” Seaver mentioned.

Parton had shared an replace with followers just some days prior, and acknowledged her well being had been declining after the loss of life of her husband.

“As I’ve shared in video messages all through the previous 12 months, I’m coping with some well being points that I simply didn’t take note of once I was watching over Carl. You already know, this isn’t the primary time I’ve needed to handle one thing like this. Again within the early ’80s, I used to be down for a number of months with feminine points, and I used to be scuffling with my weight on the time too, so it’s not like I haven’t been via onerous instances with my well being,” Parton informed PEOPLE.

Dolly Parton shared “some excellent news, and slightly dangerous information,” about her well being in an Instagram reel posted throughout her varied social media accounts on Might 4.

“The excellent news is, I’m responding rather well to meds and coverings, and I’m enhancing daily,” Parton mentioned.

Whereas Parton didn’t specify precisely what she was being handled for, she famous that she’s “all the time had issues with my kidney stones,” joking that “they dig extra stones out of me a 12 months than the rock quarry in Rockwood, Tennessee.”

She mentioned that her immune and digestive techniques “bought all out of whack over the previous three years,” and that her care staff is “working actual onerous on rebuilding and strengthening these.”

She had additionally apologized to followers for needing to cancel her beforehand postponed Las Vegas exhibits “as a result of a number of the meds and coverings make me slightly bit swimmy-headed … and naturally, I can’t be dizzy carrying round banjos, guitars and such on five-inch heels.”

The replace got here simply eight months after Parton initially announced on Instagram that she wanted to postpone her Las Vegas concert events as a result of “well being challenges” she was dealing with that might require “a couple of procedures.”

Parton mentioned that she was “working onerous on getting my museum and my lodge open in Nashville later this 12 months,” in addition to “spending lots of time writing and remodeling” her upcoming Broadway musical.

When she shared her well being replace with followers, Parton expressed her gratitude for the outpouring of affection and assist she obtained following the loss of life of her husband, Carl Dean.

Dean, who married Parton in 1966 and largely stayed out of the general public highlight all through their decades-long marriage, handed away on March 3, 2025, on the age of 82.

“A variety of you’ve been involved about me and Carl, and also you had been so nice about that,” she mentioned within the video. “I’ll all the time love him, and I’ll all the time miss him, however you’ll be shocked at how a lot your love and concern meant to me throughout that point.”

“From the underside of my coronary heart, I thanks,” she continued. “You’ve been an enormous a part of my therapeutic.”