# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/debby-boone
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:20:20.460Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/debby-boone"
name: "Debby Boone"
slug: "debby-boone"
description: "Deborah Anne Boone is an American singer, author, and actress. She is best known for her 1977 hit, \"You Light Up My Life\", which spent ten weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and led to her winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist the following year. Boone later focused her music career on country music, resulting in the 1980 No. 1 country hit \"Are You on the Road to Lovin' Me Again\". In the 1980s, she recorded Christian music which garnered her four top 10 Contemporary Christian albums as well as two more Grammys. Throughout her career, Boone has appeared in several musical theater productions and has co-authored many children's books with her husband Gabriel Ferrer."
tagline: "American singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Debby_Boone_1997.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1956-09-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.2338518323227
  historical:           21.413584
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "debbyboonemedia"
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0095501/"
    handle:    "nm0095501"
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  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.debbyboone.net/"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Debby Boone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Debby Boone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Debby Boone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Debby Boone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "เดบบี บูน"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump