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BORN: August 31, 1970, Long Island,
NY
Full name: Deborah Ann Gibson
Confirmation name: Marie
Religious denomination: Catholic
Date of birth: August 31, 1970
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York
Education: Sanford H. Calhoun High School, June 1988
Marital Status: Single
Deborah Gibson started her career at a young age.
She got experience in theater by playing roles in
plays like "A Christmas Carol",
"Annie" and "Mickey Mouse and
Friends". At age 12, she started songwriting
seriously.
She was part of the Metropolitan Opera for several
years, doing opera's like "Hansel und
Gretel", "La Boheme" and "Le
Rossignol", some of which meant singing in a
foreign language.
Deborah got her first recording contract at age 16,
for a 12" aimed at the dance market. Late 1986,
"Only in my Dreams" was released, a song
she had written three years prior. After it became a
hit, 6 months of hard work performing at various
clubs later, she recorded her first album, titled
"Out of the Blue". It went triple
platinum, just like her second album "Electric
Youth", which was released in January 1989.
With the song "Foolish Beat" she set a
record: she became the youngest artist in chart
history to have written, produced, and performed a
Number 1 song.
After Deborah's third album, "Anything is
Possible", she made her broadway debut as
Eponine in the musical "Les Miserables".
She continued her efforts in theater by appearing as
Sandy in the musical "Grease" on London's
West End for a period of nine months, shortly after
she had released her fourth album "Body Mind
Soul". Her fifth album, called "Think With
Your Heart", once more showed her abilities as
a songwriter, musician, singer and producer. It
contains mostly ballads with Deborah playing piano,
accompanied by an orchestra.
Deborah played Betty Rizzo in the National Touring
Company of Grease. She was part of the cast from
October 29 1995 through March 3 1996, touring
through the USA and performing in 19 different
cities in a usually sold out theatre. Deborah
recorded her sixth album, "Deborah", in
the summer of 1996, after which she starred as Fanny
Brice in a brief revival of the musical "Funny
Girl". She continued showing her passion for
theatre by playing Belle in the Broadway musical
"Beauty and the Beast" for nine months,
followed by starring as Gypsy Rose Lee in the
Papermill Playhouse production of Gypsy, playing the
narrator in the US touring production of Joseph and
the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and the title
role in the US touring production of Cinderella.
On March 6, 2001, she released her seventh studio
album, titled "M.Y.O.B. (Mind Your Own
Business)".
Besides her own career, she has written and/or
produced material for several other artists (Chris
Cuevas, Ana, the Party, Jobeth Taylor) and regularly
participates on 'various artists' albums benefiting
charities. She surprised many, including her own
fans, by singing backup vocals for a song on the
last Circle Jerks album.
Deborah has an upbeat, caring, open-minded,
ambitious and family-oriented personality. In her
career she has always had the support of her family.
Her mother, Diane, is also her manager. Her sisters
have also helped from the start by doing things like
designing her stage-outfits, sound engineering and
running the fan club.
She supports several charities, among which are the
Pediatric AIDS Foundation, the Make-A-Wish
Foundation and St. Mary's Children & Families
Foundation. The latter is a home for abused,
orphaned and/or neglected children. Deborah's
father, Joe Gibson, has spent several years there.
After listing those causes, it should come as no
surprise that Deborah is very fond of children. She
hasn't got any of her own yet, but has stated that
she definitely wants several children, of her own as
well as adopted.
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