Debbie Gibson Net Worth

Net Worth	$ 6,000,000
Real name	Deborah Ann Gibson
Source of Wealth	Singing, Songwriting, Producing & Acting
Profession	Songwriter, Singer, Record Producer & Actress
Spouse/Partner	Single
Date of Birth	Aug 31, 1970
Zodiac	Virgo
Age	52
Gender	Male
Pronoun	He/Him
Height	168 cm / 5 ft 6 inch
Nationality	American
Siblings	3 sisters (Denise, Michele, and Karen)

Debbie Gibson is estimated at around $5 million net worth as of 2023 💵

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Biography and early life

Deborah Ann Gibson was born in New York, Long Island, to parents who enjoyed singing while she was growing up. She has three sisters.

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She fell in love with all aspects of music, and at the age of 13, she even applied for the station’s song contest with her original song ‘I Come From America,’ winning $1000 in cash as a prize.

Debbie studied piano, was tutored by the famous pianist Morton Estrin, and went to Sanford H. Calhoun High School. There is no record of whether she proceeded with her education elsewhere.

Her path led her to the road of music, so she continued to create.

Career in music

The earliest moments that contributed to Debbie’s career in music were probably when her mother took a loan of $10k and made the family’s house garage into a recording studio. Later on, her mother becomes her manager as well. She believed that Debbie had a talent and would accomplish much.

Officially, her career started around 1986 when her recorded tape at the radio station somehow reached an executive producer at Atlantic Records. At first, her song ‘Only in My Dreams’ caught the ear of this producer, offering her a contract deal.

That song was on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1987. ^[1]

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So, her career shifted from there, and Debbie started her debut tours all around different clubs in America. Success followed her, and after her first single, she released ‘Shake Your Love,’ yet another hit on the Billboard top five charts.

Afterward, Debbie released her debut album ‘Out of the Blue’ with many hit singles like ‘Foolish Beat,’ ‘Staying Together, ‘Out of the Blue’ as the song and others.

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Only two years after her debut album, she released her second album, ‘Electric Youth’ in 1989, with its hit single ‘Lost in Your Eyes.’

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Other albums by Debbie are ‘Anything is Possible’ (1990), ‘Body, Mind, Soul (1993), ‘Think With Your Heart' (1995), ‘Deborah' (1997), ‘M.Y.O.B.' (2001), ‘Colored Lights: The Broadway Album’ (2003), ‘Ms. Vocalist' (2010), ‘The Body Remembers' (2010), and ‘Winterlicious' (2022).^[2]

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Debbie Gibson's acting career at the theater, in films, and in TV

Debbie’s first appearance as an actor was on Broadway in 1992, when she played in ‘Les Miserables’ and it made her realize that apart from music, she also enjoys acting a lot.

Nevertheless, she also gained many credits for her acting skills. So she continued playing in other Broadway productions like ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and other plays like ‘Chicago,’ ‘Cabaret,’ etc.

She also tried her luck in films and TV from the theater and co-hosted the first Kids Choice Awards in 1988. Concerning movies, she appeared as a co-star in the ‘Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus. Also, she starred in ‘Syfy’ (2011), in a Hallmark film ‘Wedding of Dreams,’ and many others.

One of her latest projects is her guest acting appearance in the Netflix series ‘Lucifer’ (season five), where she appears as a guest.

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In 2003, Debbie was one of the judges on American Idol in the American Juniors season and a judge on ‘America’s Most Musical Family.’ Other than that, she also appeared as a contestant on ‘Dancing with the Stars.’

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Debbie’s awards and acclamations

• Top Pop Album Artist Female (1988)
• Debut Album of the Year (1989)
• Debut Artist of the Year (1989)
• Songwriter of the Year (1989)
• Rock Producer of the Year (1990)
• Artist of the Year (1990)
• Song of the Year - Lost in Your Eyes (1990)
• Lifetime Achievement Award (2015)
• Golden Palm Star (2018)
• Named one of Billboard’s Top 60 Female Artists of All-Time (2018)

Most famous for

Debbie Gibson is famous for being one of the youngest female artists to write, produce and perform. Some of her all-time famous hit singles are ‘Out of the Blue,’ which by the end of 1988 went platinum three times in a row.

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Personal life

Being adored by many, which was the case with Debbie, made her a target to numerous stalkers. She even received disturbing letters and emails, all under the name ‘Starcade.’^[3]On top of that, Debbie had suffered panic attacks since she was 16, so her life was not always peaches.

Now, she openly speaks about her drug addiction in the past after the iconic singer Prince died, which she loved dearly.

In addition, she announced that she has Lyme disease and has struggled with that for almost ten years.

Regarding her love affairs, she has been engaged to Jonathan Kanterman, but it never got out why that relationship ended. Other than him, she dated Rutledge Taylor^[4]for many years, from 2008 to 2019.

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