Dol­ly Par­ton, the coun­try mu­sic icon whose soar­ing vi­bra­to vo­cals, poignant song­writ­ing and sparkling cos­tumes de­fined her rise from a log cab­in in the Ten­nessee moun­tains to the height of star­dom and ac­claim, has died. She was 80 years old.

Known for her curvy physique, mas­sive blonde wigs and skin-tight out­fits that served her self-dep­re­cat­ing wit, she was among the most beloved per­son­al­i­ties in mu­sic and be­yond — the rare celebri­ty whose ap­peal tran­scend­ed gen­er­a­tions, ge­og­ra­phy and pol­i­tics.

She wrote hun­dreds of songs, in­clud­ing clas­sics like “Jo­lene,” “Coat of Many Col­ors” and “I Will Al­ways Love You,” that to­taled more than 100 mil­lion world­wide sales and more than 1 bil­lion on­line streams. Par­ton, who plucked be­jew­eled ban­jos, gui­tar and dul­cimers with her long fin­ger­nails dur­ing per­for­mances, was a gen­er­ous phil­an­thropist and suc­cess­ful busi­ness­woman whose projects in­clud­ed a theme park in the Smoky Moun­tain foothills near her birth­place.