25 Facts About Deborah Allen

Deborah Allen was born on Deborah Lynn Thurmond on September 30,1953 and is an American country music singer and songwriter.

Since 1976, Allen has issued 12 albums and charted 14 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

Deborah Allen has written No 1 singles for herself, Janie Fricke, and John Conlee; top 5 hits for Patty Loveless and Tanya Tucker; and a top 10 hit for the Whites.

Deborah Allen was a beauty queen when she was a teenager.

At age 19, Deborah Allen moved to Nashville to begin pursuing a music career.

Deborah Allen worked a short stint as a waitress at the local Music Row IHOP restaurant.

Deborah Allen auditioned for and landed a job at the Opryland USA theme park.

Deborah Allen was chosen by Opryland as a featured soloist and dancer for a State Department exchange tour of Russia starring Tennessee Ernie Ford.

Deborah Allen's singing career received a boost when she was chosen to be a regular on Jim Stafford's summer replacement series on ABC television.

Deborah Allen went on to be an opening act on many of the star's personal appearances.

Deborah Allen decided to move back to Nashville to follow her true musical direction.

In 1979, producer Bud Logan saw Deborah Allen singing at a private party, and invited her to sing on five unfinished duet tracks by the late Jim Reeves.

Deborah Allen was billed as "The Mystery Singer" on the first release, an innovative promotion by label head Joe Galante.

Deborah Allen had written a song at the time called "Don't Worry 'Bout Me Baby" with Bruce Channel and Kieran Kane.

In 1983, Deborah Allen moved to RCA Records, finding success with her album Cheat the Night.

Deborah Allen followed her crossover hit with the country single "I've Been Wrong Before", which went to No 1 on the Cashbox country chart and No 2 on the Billboard Country chart in the spring of 1984.

Deborah Allen made the charts in 1984 with "Heartache and a Half".

In 1987, Deborah Allen released the single "Telepathy", written by Prince under the alias "Joey Coco".

Deborah Allen had one other charting single from Delta Dreamland, "If You're Not Gonna Love Me".

Deborah Allen appeared as herself in the 1993 Peter Bogdanovich film The Thing Called Love, and performed "Blame It on Your Heart" and the Don Schlitz ballad "Ready and Waiting" on the film's soundtrack.

Deborah Allen signed a co-publishing deal and record deal with Curb music publishing and Curb Records in the 1990s.

Deborah Allen's album Hear Me Now was released through Delta Rock Records and GMV Nashville on August 16,2011.

Deborah Allen's publishing companies, Delta Queen Music and Delta Rose Music, are currently partnered with Delta Rock Music.

Deborah Allen is represented by Raymond Hicks of Rolling Thunder Management.

Deborah Allen is married to music producer and promoter Raymond Hicks.