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\n\tIt\u2019s a testament to the wide and deep impact that Dolly Parton had on the hearts and minds of her musical peers that just hours after news broke about the country legend\u2019s death at 80 on Tuesday night (Aug. 25), artists ranging from Katy Perry to Pitbull, Jack White and Kesha and Jon Batiste took time out to tip their hats to the \u201cJolene\u201d hitmaker from the stage and studio.<\/p>\n
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\n\tAt Perry\u2019s show in\u00a0San Luis Potos\u00ed,\u00a0Mexico, the singer acknowledged Parton\u2019s passing on stage, telling her fans, \u201cDolly Parton was an icon \u2026 who defied the odds, \u2018cause she had both big boobs, big brains and a big voice in one body. And on top of that, the biggest thing that she did was that she was constantly kind. She was kind to everyone. And it\u2019s not always easy after you\u2019re in the spotlight for decades, and decades, and decades. So I just wanna send a little love to Miss Dolly Parton.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tPerry then went on to encourage her fans to discover, or rediscover, Parton\u2019s impressive catalog of hits, emphasizing that she was, at heart, one of the most accomplished songwriters of all time. \u201cIt\u2019s where all songwriters \u2014 we learn how to write music is through a songwriter like her,\u201d Perry said before cueing one of the first song she ever wrote herself in her 20s, the 2008 One of the Boys<\/em> song \u201cThinking of You.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tPianist Jon Batiste posted an emotional tribute to one of Parton\u2019s most iconic hits, \u201cI Will Always Love You,\u201d performing the classic ballad on piano while wearing a black cowboy hat and blue jean overalls. Pitbull took time out from his show at Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, N.Y. on Tuesday night, telling the crowd that while they were having fun he wanted to shout out someone that was, \u201cvery special to me and showed me love and believed in me when a lot of folks didn\u2019t and gave me an opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tWhen he mentioned Parton, the audience went wild as Pit added, \u201cShe lived an amazing life, a hard-working woman \u2026 intelligent, sophisticated, funny, powerful, intimidating, but more than anything a good human being with a good heart.\u201d After taking a swig from a Champagne bottle and toasting Parton, Mr. Worldwide shimmied along with his dancers to her iconic hit \u201c9 to 5\u201d as the screen behind him filled with a giant image of the unlikely musical duo smiling for a picture.<\/p>\n \n\tParton teamed up with Pitbull in 2024 to record new vocals and a rap verse on his song \u201cPowerful Women,\u201d which sampled \u201c9 to 5.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tKesha had a personal connection to Parton through her mom, Pebe Sebert, also a songwriter. During her show at Pavilion Star Lake in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, Kesha performed Parton\u2019s 1980 hit \u201cOld Flames (Can\u2019t Hold a Candle To You),\u201d a country tune co-written by Sebert and Hugh Moffat. The song was a country chart hit for Joe Sun in 1978 and then again in 1980 on Parton\u2019s Dolly, Dolly, Dolly<\/em> album, with that version hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI just want to say thank you for bringing me so much joy today, because earlier today, I\u2019m sure many of y\u2019all know that we lost Ms. Dolly Parton,\u201d Kesha told the crowd as seen in a fan video. \u201cWe literally lost an angel. But through her art and through her kindness and through her love, she will live forever. And I want to talk about her a little bit. For those of you who don\u2019t know, I come from a long lineage of songwriters and before I was born, my mom actually wrote a song for Dolly Parton. And that song bought us a house, like a roof. That song put me through school.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe connection came full circle in 2017, when Kesha recorded a duet with Parton on \u201cOld Flames\u201d for her Rainbow<\/em> album in the midst of the singer\u2019s long-running court battle with former producer\/label boss Dr. Luke. She reminded the crowd that she recorded that album \u201cin the middle of a very scary litigation, and I was in the #MeToo movement, and having such a legendary woman do this song with me and stand beside me, it made me really feel like God was on my side,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s how it feels working with Dolly Parton. So in honor of her incredible legacy and her beautiful life, I\u2019d like to sing the song that my mom wrote for her.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn addition, Jack White played a ferocious version of the oft-covered \u201cJolene\u201d at London\u2019s Eventim Apollo just hours after the news of her death broke. The Detroit rocker now based in Nashville posted a snippet of the performance on his Instagram after the show, beginning with the apt lyric: \u201cYour beauty is beyond compare.\u201d Earlier in the day, White shared a tribute to Parton via a 1965 photo of the legend with her classic towering beehive hairstyle and the two-word caption: \u201cInstant Sainthood.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tParton had mostly been out of the public eye for more than a year due to a series of unspecified health issues and died on Tuesday in Nashville at 80 following a \u201cbrief battle with cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/katy-perry-kesha-pitbull-batiste-pay-tribute-dolly-parton-stage-1236324867\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/P10U159-e1787754919962.jpg?w=1024″] Trending on Billboard It\u2019s a testament to the wide and deep impact that Dolly Parton had on the hearts and minds of her musical peers that just hours after news broke about the country legend\u2019s death at 80 on Tuesday night (Aug. 25), artists ranging from Katy Perry to Pitbull, Jack White […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-2113001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2113001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2113001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2113001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2113001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Billboard](\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/2HpFicp.png\")
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