Debby Boone defends dad Pat Boone’s controversial covers of R&B songs
nypost.comFats Domino song, “Ain’t That a Shame.” The now 87-year-old followed that up with covers of “Tutti Frutti” and “Long Tall Sally,” by Little Richard.Debby, 65, admits that some may view her beliefs as “a very naive perspective — but I do know he and Little Richard had conversations.
Little Richard had some sort of resentment over it and he and my dad came to a real acceptance together that it had been the way that it needed to be.”She had her own huge success at age 21 with the No.
1 song “You Light Up My Life,” which Boone calls “absolutely life-changing.”“I think because I was young and inexperienced and somewhat frightened by the success I probably made choices that weren’t great ones for a career trajectory but maybe great ones for a life trajectory,” she explained.“So I don’t look back with regret because I married well,” Boone continued. “I have four fantastic kids and four grandkids and a happy life that may not have been this life if I’d gone on to have some unending successful career.”The Grammy winner married Gabriel Ferrer in 1979, who himself comes from a showbiz family.
His mom was legendary singer Rosemary Clooney and his first cousin is George Clooney.Boone went on to record country and Christian music, tour in musical theater and has a new reissued album that pays homage to Las Vegas.
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