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A double bill of music that touches the heart. With his smoky and silky jazz vocals, Steve Tyrell has reinvented and re-popularized classic pop standards for the modern-day romantic. Debby Boone (“You Light Up My Life”) performs the timeless music of her mother-in-law, legendary singer Rosemary Clooney, in a performance that is a homage to Clooney’s work as well as personal remembrance of her life.
Background:
Steve Tyrell:
Grammy Award-winning vocalist Steve Tyrell is truly a renaissance man. In his four and a half decades in the music business, he has achieved great success as an artist, producer, songwriter, music supervisor, and performer.
With his breakthrough performances in “Father of the Bride” and “Father of the Bride II,” Steve Tyrell reinvented and re-popularized classic pop standards for a modern-day audience. With the grit and soul of a lifetime of experiences, producing hits for Grammy-winning Artists ranging from Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville, to Rod Stewart and Diana Ross, Steve himself has sold hundreds of thousands of albums and gained a passionate following all over the world. His hits “The Way You Look Tonight,” “The Simple Life,” “Crush On You” and “The Sunny Side of The Street,” have launched thousands of weddings and millions of romances. He’s held top positions at Standards, Swing, and Big Band outlets with a devoted following at key Adult Contemporary Radio.
Debby Boone:
Debby Boone’s first Concord Records release, Reflections of Rosemary, is an intimate musical portrait of her late mother-in-law, the legendary singer Rosemary Clooney. The CD is a collection of 14 standards chosen for their significance in Boone's life with Clooney, led by hers and Clooney’s Musical Director, John Oddo. “I wanted to select songs that would give an insight into Rosemary from a family perspective, and from the more than 30- years that I spent with her,” says Boone.
Boone is best known for “You Light Up My Life” which is ranked # 7 in the September 20, 2008 Billboard Magazine’s 50th Anniversary Special Issue on The Definitive List of The Hot 100’s All-Time Top-Charting Songs of the last 5 decades.
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