'We all deserve' peace, Dolly Parton says

USA, Oct. 27: The U.S. State Department and the Recording Academy Friday announced Grammy-award winning Dolly Parton is the 2024 winner of the PEACE Through Music Award.

The award honors an American music industry artist, professional or group that has "played an invaluable role in cross-cultural exchanges and whose work advances peace and mutual understanding globally."

An award celebration was scheduled for Friday night at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles.

In a videotaped acceptance, Parton sang a few lines of a song about peace.

"Is that not what we're all looking for? A little peace," Parton said. "We all want it. Some of us, all around this whole world can only dream about it. But as people, we all deserve it."

She said she started writing songs even before starting school. She said writing and singing brought her peace and it was a way to express herself through her music.

"To this day I get my personal peace from writing, from singing, from sharing with you," Parton added in the video. "It's my way of communicating and hoping that every word or line in one of my songs might bring the listener some kind of peace."