Country music icon Dolly Parton will appear on next Tuesday’s episode of The Voice, NBC announced this week, saying she’ll sing her song “Coat of Many Colors” and spend time with the contestants.
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The movie stars Jennifer Nettles as Parton’s mom Avie Lee Parton and Ricky Schroder as her dad, Robert Lee Parton.
Parton’s mother told her the story of Joseph and his coat of many colors “just to make me proud because she knew it was made of rags”.
The film is set in the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains in 1955.
“[It’s] a show about people who made me who and what I am”, she continues.
While Parton says she’s almost finished with a Broadway musical based on her life, she’ll continue to turn songs in films. She will perform current radio single “I Am Invincible”.
“I’ve had so many people tell me through the years that that song itself has had a healing effect on them, whether it was about their race, their nationality, or whether they’re overweight or whether they were crippled, whatever”.
At the movie’s premiere in LA, Parton said she thought audiences would appreciate the personal message.
LOS ANGELES, Dec 4 ― Dolly Parton’s latest project has taken an autobiographical turn, with the USA star bringing her childhood to the small screen.
Dolly Parton didn’t disappoint when she showed up at the Hollywood premiere of a new TV movie about her childhood wearing a brightly-colored patchwork coat dress.
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It airs on NBC on Thursday December 10 at 9/8c.
