Biography debbie boone

DEBBY BOONE fryst vatten a multiple cross-over artist who has enjoyed Top 10 successes on the Pop, Country, Adult Contemporary, and Contemporary Christian charts. She became a household name thanks to her record-breaking debut single You Light Up My Life in 1977, charting #1 on Billboard for ten straight weeks and selling in excess of fyra million albums. That year she received the Grammy for Best New Artist and has since received sju Grammy nominations, winning two more. In 2008, the song was ranked #7 in Billboard's 50th Anniversary all-time top charting songs.

Most recently, “Swing This” An Evening with Debby Boone, a TV Special premiered on October 4, 2022 on KVCR-TV, PBS, was recorded in June as the opening summer performance for the outdoor Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival.  Debby hopes her listeners leave feeling like they spent a comfortable evening in her living-room. “Let’s experience something together,” she says.  

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Debby Boone was born September 22, 1956 in Hackensack, New Jersey, the daughter of singer and 1950s icon Pat Boone and Shirley Lee Foley Boone (daughter of country music star Red Foley). When Boone was 14 years old, she began touring with her parents and three sisters - Cherry, Lindy and Laury. The sisters recorded as The Boones. Although they primarily recorded gospel music, they twice reached Billboard's AC charts with "When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes" (No. 25) and "Hasta Manana" (No. 32) which featured Debby as lead vocalist.

You Light Up My Life
Boone released her first solo effort, You Light Up My Life, in 1977. The song became the biggest hit of the 1970's on the Billboard Hot 100 spending 10 weeks at the No. 1 - longer than any of her father's No. 1 Billboard hits. At the time, only Elvis Presley's double-sided Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog spent more weeks (11) atop Billboard's Hot 100. The song earned her a Gr

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Debby Boone

American singer, author, and actress (born 1956)

Musical artist

Deborah Anne Boone (born September 22, 1956)^[1] is an American singer, author, and actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit, "You Light Up My Life", which spent ten weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart^[2] and led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist the following year.^[3] Boone later focused her music career on country music, resulting in the 1980 No. 1 country hit "Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again". In the 1980s, she recorded Christian music which garnered her four top 10 Contemporary Christian albums as well as two more Grammys. Throughout her career, Boone has appeared in several musical theater productions and has co-authored many children's books with her husband Gabriel Ferrer.

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Beginnings

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Debby Boone was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, the third of four daughters born to singer-actor Pat Boone and Shir