{"id":814093,"date":"2026-10-26T04:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T04:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814093\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T04:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T04:32:10","slug":"spotify-uploads-irish-lyrics-for-dolly-partons-welsh-jolene-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/814093\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotify uploads Irish lyrics for Dolly Parton&#8217;s Welsh Jolene version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Welsh version of the song came about after Lewis, from Neath, had translated the country classic and posted it on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Then Star, Parton&#8217;s niece, reached out and suggested recording Jolene in Welsh with Lewis &#8211; and Parton joined too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2008, during a concert at the Cardiff International Arena, Parton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cj9xjve1vm7o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly revealed<\/a> her Welsh ancestry to fans in the crowd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Star revealed one side of the family from Parton&#8217;s mother Avie Lee Owens was initially believed to have come from Conwy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following the singer&#8217;s death, research by staff at Conwy council&#8217;s archives suggested Parton&#8217;s ancestors were from Machynlleth, in Powys, not Conwy as previously thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Welsh version of the song came about after Lewis, from Neath, had translated the country classic and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-814093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}