Party Favorz has honored virtually every major diva who dominated Billboard’s Dance Club charts over the past several decades. Many of these legendary women appear on Billboard’s Greatest of All Time Top Dance Club Artists chart, where Madonna rightfully reigns supreme.
But membership in the Diva Hall of Fame has never been limited to artists whose careers were built on the dancefloor. Some women became dance divas almost by accident. Their songs were embraced and transformed by DJs and devoted fans because the artists themselves had become cultural icons—particularly within the LGBTQ community.
Dolly Parton Finds Her Way to the Dancefloor
One such artist is the incomparable Dolly Parton.
Dolly certainly didn’t build her career around dance music. Nevertheless, when you’re a beloved gay icon with a catalog spanning generations, remixers will inevitably find a way to get you onto the dancefloor. Over the years, her music has been reworked into House, Disco, Circuit, Country Dance and other electronic styles, proving that a great song can travel far beyond the genre in which it was created.
Then again, Dolly Parton has spent her entire career defying expectations.
She’s a country singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman and philanthropist who has earned numerous ACM Awards, Grammys, Emmys, American Music Awards and Academy Award nominations, among countless other honors.
Her songwriting alone would have secured her place in music history. Add her unmistakable voice, larger-than-life image, sharp sense of humor and extraordinary business instincts, and you have something far more enduring than a country music star.
You have Dolly.
More Than a Music Legend
What makes Dolly especially deserving of a place in the Diva Hall of Fame extends well beyond her music.
Throughout her career, she has given generously to education, literacy, healthcare and communities in need. Just as importantly to her LGBTQ fans, Dolly has consistently treated gay and transgender people with the same warmth and dignity she extends to everyone else.
That support has always felt genuine.
She never needed grand declarations or carefully calculated campaigns to prove where she stood. Dolly simply treated people with compassion and allowed her actions to speak for her. For generations of LGBTQ fans—particularly those who grew up in places where acceptance wasn’t guaranteed—that meant something.
It’s also one reason remixers have continually returned to her music. These reworks aren’t merely attempts to turn country songs into dance records. Many are labors of love created by people with a genuine affection for the woman behind the music.
Welcome to the Diva Hall of Fame
Dolly has often been imitated but never duplicated. Her combination of talent, longevity, business savvy, humor and humanity belongs to her alone. Few entertainers have successfully navigated as many decades without losing the qualities that made audiences fall in love with them in the first place.
She also proves something Party Favorz has long believed: being a dance diva isn’t solely determined by how many club hits appear next to your name.
Sometimes the dancefloor chooses you.
With tremendous admiration, love and respect, Party Favorz proudly inducts the one and only Ms. Dolly Parton into the Diva Hall of Fame.
Until the next time…ENJOY!
Album: Dolly Parton – The Diva Series
Genre: Dance Music
Year: 2018
Total Time: 53:44:00
- Jolene (Kygo Remix)
- Baby I’m Burnin’ (Disco Mix)
- Downtown (Chris’ Disco Mix)
- Potential New Boyfriend (Long Version)
- Walking on Sunshine (Mark Kamin’s Harder Mix)
- Two Doors Down (Boy Wunder Mix)
- 9 to 5 (Club Mix)
- Peace Train (Junior’s Arena Anthem)
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