Just seeing the name Deborah Gibson, aka Debbie Gibson, brings up all kinds of warm fuzzies and toe-tapping, head-bopping, and other involuntary body movements. A musical prodigy, she hit the music charts and radio airwaves everywhere in 1986, when the blonde-headed singer was only 16-years old, grabbing everyone’s attention with her self-penned hit “Only In My Dreams.” Her song “Foolish Beat” got her in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest artist ever to write, produce, and perform a number-one song. Her debut album Out of the Blue went triple platinum and charted four number-one singles; her second album, Electric Youth (1989) spent five weeks in the number 1 slot. All told, she’s sold more than 16 million albums around the world, and has released almost a dozen studio albums. Not content to just rest on her musical talents, she added acting to her resume, and hit up the theatre scene, starring in 17 musicals in 17 years. Eager to bust out of her good-girl, teeny-bopper image, she showed off her grown-up goods in Playboyin 2005, and gave her career a kick in the pants with the movie Mega Shark v Giant Octopus (2009). She followed up the cult hit with Mega Python vs. Gatoroid (2011), where Deborah duked it out with former teen-singer rival Tiffany. In 2019, she proved she still had it when she went on a 55-show, 53-city North American tour with New Kids on the Block, Tiffany, Naughty by Nature, and Salt-N-Pepa, selling over 600,000 tickets. Raise your hand if you’re toe-tapping right now—and other involuntary things…
