Debby Boone

Deborah Anne Debby Boone , 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.on the Billboard Hot 100 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 1980 No.country hit Are You on the Road to Lovin Me Again. In the 1980s, she recorded Christian music which garnered her four topContemporary Christian albums as well as two more Grammys. Throughout her career, Boone has appeared in several musical theater productions and has coauthored many childrens books with husband, Gabriel Ferrer.

Debby Boone was born in Hackensack, New Jersey, the third of four daughters born to singeractor Pat Boone and Shirley Foley Boone, daughter of country music star Red Foley. When Boone was 14160years 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.

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