Debbie Gibson became a teen pop star in the late '80s with hits like "Only in my Dreams," "Shake Your Love" and "Foolish Beat" before even graduating from high school.
The first single in her 2nd album, "Lost in Your Eyes," peaked at No. 1 on the charts, and Gibson shared the 1989 ASCAP Songwriter of the Year award with Bruce Springsteen.
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Deborah Ann Gibson was born on August 31, 1970, in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Merrick, New York. Gibson began taking piano lessons from Morton Estrin (who also taught Billy Joel) at the age of 5, and quickly proved herself a musical prodigy. She wrote her first song, "Make Sure You Know Your Classroom," at age 6, and in fifth grade she composed an opera.
Gibson built a makeshift studio in her family's garage and began dedicating what little free time she had to writing and recording music.
When she won $1,000 in a songwriting contest as a 12-year-old (for a song she had written called "I Come From America") Gibson's parents realized their daughter's musical talents might translate into a career. They hired Doug Breibart to serve as Gibson's manager, and Breibart taught her how to arrange, engineer and produce her own music. By the time she turned 15 in 1985, Gibson had recorded more than 100 of her own songs. Read more at Biography.com.
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