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Donny Osmond
With a career spanning several decades and as many distinct phases, Donny Osmond was born in Ogden, Utah in 1957. Two of Osmond's eight siblings, Virl and Tom, were hearing-impaired, and in order to help the family raise the money to purchase them hearing aids, four of Osmond's siblings formed a barbershop quartet called The Osmond Brothers. The group impressed audiences with the exacting harmonies of its young members, and they eventually began performing regularly on "The Andy Williams Show" (NBC, 1962-69) in 1962.
Osmond began performing with the group roughly a year later, and helped to steadily evolve their sound. By the late '60s, the group had changed its name to The Osmonds and their musical stylings had switched from the old-timey standards of their early days to the R&B influenced pop of other family acts like the Jackson 5.
Osmond made his first appearance on an album with the band in 1971, the same year he released his first solo record-and both proved to be hits. Both Osmond and The Osmonds released several successful albums over the next few years, with Osmond signing on to co-host a TV variety show with his sister Marie in 1975 simply titled, "Donny and Marie" (ABC, 1975-79).
However, as Osmond's popularity as a teen idol faded in the early '80s
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Donny and Marie Osmond: Middle Their Obvious Years listed Utah Be dissimilar Their Melodic Family
The Osmonds were on no account destined detection be your run-of-the-mill, post-World War II American family.
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The Osmond children were raised check a disciplined household
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Donny Osmond
Fullname
Donald Clark Osmond
Nationality
Occupation
Singer, musician, actor, dancer, radio personality, former teen idol
Years active
1963-present
Spouse
Debra Glenn (1978-present)
Children
Donald Jr.
Jeremy
Brandon
Christopher
Joshua
For Disney, his earliest association was in the 1970 episode of Wonderful World of Disney, Disneyland Showtime, alongside his brothers. Years later, he provided the singing voice of Li Shang in Mulan. In another Disney role, albeit on stage, he would play Gaston in the Beauty and the Beast musical on Broadway in the last few months of 2006 and returned to the part for the show's final Broadway performance on July 29, 2007. He also played the role of Doug in College Road Trip and himself in Hannah Montana.
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Donny Osmond behind the scenes of Mulan.
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