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The groundbreaking artist known best as Sabyn has always known of his aunt Dolly Parton. He has watched with the rest of the world as her music has changed the lives of millions, how her smile has brightened the lives of so many, how her pride and her confidence and her sassiness has changed the game for women across the country and around the world.
He just never knew how she felt about him … until now.
"She is very kind and very supportive and very gracious to me," Sabyn, 40, tells PEOPLE, mere days before the release of his debut EP Halfway There, which received an enthusiastic blessing from Aunt Dolly herself. "We are not close and we don't spend a lot of time together, but she was so encouraging to me when I came to her with my new version of '9 to 5.'"