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Deborah Gibson is a creative force in the entertainment industry who does it
all! She has single handedly transcended music and entertainment trends and
fads. Deborah stands poised at the top, embarking on the second phase of her
hugely successful pop career.
Deborah Gibson exploded on the pop music scene at the tender age of 16. She
quickly became the youngest person ever to write, produce and perform a #1
single (�Foolish Beat�), a record which she still proudly holds to this day.
Deborah has sold over 16 million albums worldwide to date. Her extraordinary
career has garnered her #1 Billboard hits, Platinum albums, ASCAP Songwriter of
the Year honors, sold-out audiences around the world and rave reviews for her
starring roles on Broadway.
Growing up in Long Island, Deborah began performing with her sisters in
Community Theatre at the age of five. At age five she wrote her first
composition. By age eight she was performing as part of the children's chorus at
the Metropolitan Opera House in NYC with artists such as Placido Domingo. By the
time she was twelve years old she was already a professional Broadway actress
pursuing a recording career. The dream was realized by sixteen, when Deborah was
signed to Atlantic Records. Her first single "Only In My Dreams" went right to
the top of the charts around the world.
Following were several more top five hits and the #1 single "Foolish Beat". Her
debut album "Out of the Blue" sold over five million copies. With this, Deborah
established herself as a household name and immediately confirmed that position
with her triple platinum follow up #1 album "Electric Youth" and the #1 single
"Lost In Your Eyes". Deborah�s recording legacy includes 1990's Gold album
Anything Is Possible, 1993's Body Mind Soul, 1995's Think With Your Heart,
1997's Deborah and 2001's M.Y.O.B.
In 1992, Deborah returned to her theatrical roots by taking a star turn in the
Broadway production of Les Miserables as �Eponine.� She broke box office records
in the London West End production of Grease as �Sandy�, then took the stage in
the U.S. Broadway Tours of Grease and Funny Girl playing �Rizzo� and �Fanny
Brice� respectively. Deborah returned to Broadway as �Belle� in Disney�s Beauty
and the Beast, followed by her critically acclaimed performance as �Gypsy Rose
Lee� to Betty Buckley�s �Mama Rose� in Gypsy at the Paper Mill Playhouse. In
February 2000, Deborah starred as �The Narrator� in the national tour of Joseph
and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Then, in December 2001, Deborah starred,
in a 3 month engagement, as �Cinderella� in the national production of Rodgers
and Hammerstein�s Cinderella to Eartha Kitt�s �Fairy Godmother�. In October,
2002, Deborah graced the stage as "Velma Kelly" in Boston's North Shore
Theatre's production of "Chicago", a role she will do again at the Lyric Theatre
in Oklahoma City, July, 2003. Deborah returned to Broadway in February 2003, for
a 4 month stint as the "saucy, sexy Sally Bowles" at Studio 54 in "Cabaret".
"Gibson's vampish performance as Bowles - is certainly her most ambitious
undertaking to date. She belts with gritty gusto, dances with verve and
self-possessed ease, and quickly charms the pants off the audience with the
focused bouyance she brings to a precocious, complex and ever-present
character." (Chuck Taylor, Billboard Magazine)
Adding to her accomplishments, Deborah is also composer and lyricist on her own
Broadway musical, Skirts.
Deborah Gibson considers herself to be the traditional "All Around Entertainer",
and continues to be a driving force in the entertainment industry.
Credit: deborah-gibson.net
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