Deborah Anne Boone (born September , ) is an American singer, author,
and actress. She is best known for her hit, "You Light Up My Life",
which spent ten weeks at No. on the Billboard Hot chart and led to
her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist the following year.
Boone later focused her music career on country music, resulting in
the No. country hit "Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again". In the
s, she recorded Christian music which garnered her four top
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.Debby Boone was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, the third of
four daughters born to singer-actor Pat Boone and Shirley Foley Boone,
daughter of country music star Red Foley. When Boone was years old,
she began touring with her parents and three sisters: Cherry, Lindy,
and Laury. The sisters first recorded with their parents as The Pat
Boone Family and later as the Boones or Boone Girls. They primarily
recorded gospel music, although the sisters also released singles for
the Motown and Curb labels that were remakes of secular pop music
featuring Debby as the lead vocalist.The Boones twice reached
Billboard's AC charts with 's "When the Lovelight Starts Shining
Through His Eyes" (No. ), a remake of the Supremes' first top hit,
and 's "Hasta Mañana" (No. ), a cover of a track from ABBA's Waterloo
album.
and actress. She is best known for her hit, "You Light Up My Life",
which spent ten weeks at No. on the Billboard Hot chart and led to
her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist the following year.
Boone later focused her music career on country music, resulting in
the No. country hit "Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again". In the
s, she recorded Christian music which garnered her four top
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.Debby Boone was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, the third of
four daughters born to singer-actor Pat Boone and Shirley Foley Boone,
daughter of country music star Red Foley. When Boone was years old,
she began touring with her parents and three sisters: Cherry, Lindy,
and Laury. The sisters first recorded with their parents as The Pat
Boone Family and later as the Boones or Boone Girls. They primarily
recorded gospel music, although the sisters also released singles for
the Motown and Curb labels that were remakes of secular pop music
featuring Debby as the lead vocalist.The Boones twice reached
Billboard's AC charts with 's "When the Lovelight Starts Shining
Through His Eyes" (No. ), a remake of the Supremes' first top hit,
and 's "Hasta Mañana" (No. ), a cover of a track from ABBA's Waterloo
album.
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