Some stars have gone through a long way and bumpy road to escape extreme poverty or broken family and achieve success and financial security that they are entitled now.
- March 28, 2021
AceShowbiz - With her approximately $600 million net worth, Dolly Parton may now be able to buy any house she wants now, but back when she was a child, her family of 14 had to crumple in a one-room cabin in Tennessee. Her father worked various jobs to make ends meet and paid the doctor who helped deliver her with a bag of cornmeal. The country music legend has described her family as being "dirt poor" and she outlined her family's poverty in her early songs "Coat of Many Colors" and "In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)".
Dolly started performing at church before singing on local radio and television programs as a child. By the age of 9, she was appearing on "The Cas Walker Show" and later was signed to a small Louisiana label, Goldband Records. However, it wasn't until she switched genre from pop to country that she found her big break in the industry, with her duet with Porter Wagoner, "The Last Thing on My Mind", which reached the country Top 10 in January 1968.
