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‘Living legend’ Dolly Parton will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, after all

Dolly Parton speaks to reporters during a press conference in 2016.
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Dolly Parton will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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After a bit of back and forth, Dolly Parton will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The inductees were announced Wednesday.

When she first found out about her nomination, Parton said she felt she had not earned a place in the genre and wanted to remove herself from the voting.

But Rock & Roll Hall of Fame officials declined her request to be removed and said that rock ‘n’ roll has its roots in country music, and her nomination is not defined by genre.

In her biography on the site, the Hall of Fame describes Parton as “a living legend and a paragon of female empowerment,” and credits her crossover success for broadening the country music audience.

“With her prodigious songwriting talent, vocal and instrumental prowess, charisma, and trademark style, Dolly Parton has achieved immense global success as a musician and blazed a trail for generations of artists to come,” the Hall of Fame wrote.

Now she’ll be inducted along with stars like Pat Benatar, Carly Simon and Lionel Richie at a ceremony in Los Angeles in November.

Paige Pfleger, Criminal Justice Reporter

Paige Pfleger covers criminal justice for WPLN News. She has investigated guns and juvenile justice as a fellow with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network, and her investigation into domestic violence and firearms dispossession won a regional Edward R. Murrow award and was a finalist for an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and a Livingston Award. She previously covered criminal justice and addiction in Ohio and was named the state's reporter of the year by the Associated Press. Her work has appeared nationally on NPR, The Washington Post, Marketplace, and PRI's The World, and she has worked in the newsrooms of The Tennessean, Michigan Radio, WHYY, Vox and NPR headquarters in DC.

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