Debbie Gibson released her debut album Out of the Blue in 1987, which spawned several international hits, later being certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
64 Facts About Debbie Gibson
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Debbie Gibson is the sole songwriter on all of her singles to reach the top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100.
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Debbie Gibson was recognized by ASCAP as Songwriter of the Year, along with Bruce Springsteen, in 1989.
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Debbie Gibson continued to record and release music throughout the 1990s and 2000s.
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Debbie Gibson was born on Long Island, New York, on August 31,1970, the third of Diane and Joseph Debbie Gibson's four daughters.
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Debbie Gibson grew up in suburban Merrick, New York, on Long Island.
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In 1983, Debbie Gibson submitted a cassette recording of her original composition "I Come From America" to WOR for the station's song contest.
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Debbie Gibson spent much of 1986 and the beginning of 1987 building her songwriting catalog, while continuing to play club dates.
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Atlantic Records and Debbie Gibson worked to complete her first album as a result of the good showing by the single.
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In 1987, while performing at nightclubs throughout the United States, Debbie Gibson recorded her debut album, Out of the Blue.
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Debbie Gibson remains the youngest female artist to have done so.
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In October 1988, Debbie Gibson sang the national anthem for Game 1 of the Major League Baseball World Series.
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Debbie Gibson shared the 1989 ASCAP Songwriter of the Year Award with Bruce Springsteen.
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Debbie Gibson recorded two more albums for Atlantic Records: Anything Is Possible and Body, Mind, Soul.
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Debbie Gibson sang background vocals on the song "I Wanna Destroy You", as well as appearing at and participating in the Circle Jerks' performance at the punk venue CBGB wearing one of the band's T-shirts and sharing a microphone with frontman Keith Morris.
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In 2005, Debbie Gibson co-wrote and recorded a song titled "Someone You Love" with the O'Neill Brothers.
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The March 2005 issue of Playboy featured a nude pictorial of Debbie Gibson, coinciding with the release of her single, "Naked".
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Debbie Gibson has said that the magazine had asked her five times to pose for them since she turned 18.
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Debbie Gibson agreed to pose to revamp her image, describing how one casting call called her agent, not realizing that Gibson had long since outgrown her teenager image.
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In 2006, Debbie Gibson went on tour with the O'Neill Brothers for "Someone You Love Tour" in 2006.
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Debbie Gibson had a resurgence of popularity in niche markets.
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On November 14,2006, Debbie Gibson released the song "Famous" on her official website.
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In September 2007, Debbie Gibson considered creating a camp on the West Coast.
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Debbie Gibson was a judge for the online talent competition, Total Pop Star, along with Andrew Van Slee and Joey Lawrence.
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In May 2008, Debbie Gibson performed her 1980s hits, along with her Broadway role songs, during a three-run week at Harrah's in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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Debbie Gibson later appeared on the April 2008 cover of Lavender Magazine and was interviewed about her career and upcoming projects.
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On March 9,2009, Debbie Gibson released a new song called "Already Gone" on her official website and reverberation, written by Debbie Gibson and produced by Fred Coury.
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Debbie Gibson became a spokesperson for Murad's Resurgence Skin Care and plays piano and sings a line of the song called "Cougar".
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Debbie Gibson's song "Rise", from the documentary 3 Billion and Counting, was included on the shortlist for an Academy Award for Best Song in a Film in 2010.
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In January 2011, Debbie Gibson wrote, performed, and produced the song "Snake Charmer" for the film Mega Python vs Gatoroid.
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Debbie Gibson recorded a song titled "Wonderland" for the film.
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In June 2017, Billboard Debbie Gibson achieved her highest-charting hit in more than 25 years in her duet with Sir Ivan on "I Am Peaceman", which hit number 26 on the Billboard Dance Club chart.
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In June 2018, Debbie Gibson appeared in the music video of American heavy-metal band Voices of Extreme's cover version of "Foolish Beat".
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In March 2019, Debbie Gibson hosted a special program on SiriusXM Radio's '80s on 8 channel to celebrate the 30th anniversary of her Electric Youth album, during which she played each song from the album in sequence, accompanied by personal stories surrounding each song.
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On June 7,2019, Debbie Gibson released a new pop anthem "Girls Night Out".
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Debbie Gibson debuted on Broadway in 1992, playing Eponine in Les Miserables.
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Debbie Gibson played Fanny Brice in a revamped Funny Girl tour.
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Debbie Gibson has had many successful theatre credits; she was among the many actresses who took the starring role of Belle in the Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast.
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Debbie Gibson replaced Kerry Butler in September 1997 and was in the show until June 1998, when Kim Huber then succeeded her.
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Debbie Gibson starred in the critically lauded production of Gypsy.
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Debbie Gibson starred as Anna Leonowens in Cabrillo Music Theatre's production of the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musical The King and I, which began October 17,2008, in the Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza and ran through October 26.
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Debbie Gibson co-hosted Nickelodeon's first Kids' Choice Awards in 1988, alongside Tony Danza, Brian Robbins, and Dan Schneider.
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Debbie Gibson reprised her role as Emma McNeil in the 2014 film Mega Shark Versus Mecha Shark.
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Debbie Gibson starred in the UP TV movie called The Music in Me alongside Gloria Reuben in 2015.
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In mid-2003, Debbie Gibson was a judge on the American Idol spin-off American Juniors, which lasted one season.
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Debbie Gibson competed on the fifth season of The Celebrity Apprentice, which began airing on February 19,2012.
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Debbie Gibson was fired on April 1,2012, in the seventh task because she had brought in the least amount of money between her teammates in the boardroom, Dayana Mendoza and Teresa Giudice.
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In 2017, Debbie Gibson was one of the celebrities competing on the 25th season of Dancing with the Stars.
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In September 2018, Debbie Gibson starred in the Hallmark Channel film Wedding of Dreams, a sequel to 2016's Summer of Dreams.
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In 2019 and 2020, Debbie Gibson was a judge on Nickelodeon's America's Most Musical Family.
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Debbie Gibson made a guest appearance on season 5 episode 10 of the Netflix series Lucifer, which premiered on May 28,2021.
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In 2023, Debbie Gibson competed in season nine of The Masked Singer as "Night Owl".
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Debbie Gibson was eliminated on "ABBA Night" alongside Howie Mandel as "Rock Lobster".
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Debbie Gibson's trademark was her hats, usually a black pork-pie style.
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Debbie Gibson made popular wearing tight, rolled-up jeans, vests over a T-shirt, friendship bracelets and two Swatch watches as on the back cover of her popular album Electric Youth and in her music video "Staying Together".
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Debbie Gibson's influences were Madonna and Olivia Newton-John, though she has often stated she admires Elton John and Billy Joel as favorite artists and was asked to sing and perform live with both at the former's Madison Square Garden concert, which she did.
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Debbie Gibson appeared on the covers of numerous teen magazines such as Tiger Beat.
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Debbie Gibson had a history of panic attacks since the age of 16.
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In May 1998, Michael Falkner, a disgruntled fan from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, was arrested outside Manhattan's Palace Theater, where Debbie Gibson was performing in the live-musical adaptation of Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
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In 2008, Debbie Gibson filed for a restraining order against Spanish taxi driver Jorge Puigdollers, who had stalked her since 2002.
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The proceeding was dismissed when Debbie Gibson failed to show up for the hearing.
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Debbie Gibson was once engaged to Jonathan Kanterman and was in a relationship with Rutledge Taylor from 2008 to 2019.
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In 2014, in response to fans' concern about her weight loss, Debbie Gibson stated she had developed symptoms of Lyme disease in early 2013.
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Debbie Gibson never married and doesn't have children of her own, a choice she admitted to considering before being diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2013.