Tiffany Renee Darwish (born October 2, 1971), known popularly as Tiffany, is an American singer who had a number of teen pop hits during the late-1980s.
Tiffany was born in Norwalk, California in ...
Tiffany Renee Darwish (born October 2, 1971), known popularly as Tiffany, is an American singer who had a number of teen pop hits during the late-1980s.
Tiffany was born in Norwalk, California in 1971, to parents James Robert Darwish (of Lebanese descent) and Janie Wilson (of mostly Irish and some distant Cherokee descent).Her parents divorced when she was very young.
Tiffany began singing around 1975, when she was four years old, and learned the words to the song "Delta Dawn."
Early singing career
In 1981, Tiffany debuted as a singer with country music singer Jack Reeves at a country and western spot called Narods in Chino, California. She passed a hat along the crowd afterward, and collected US$235 in what would be her first career earnings.
Tiffany was singing at a Los Angeles club named El Palomino when she was discovered by Hoyt Axton and his mother Mae Axton. Mae took her to sing in Nashville, Tennessee, where she performed at the Ralph Emery Show, singing Juice Newton's "Queen of Hearts" and Tammy Wynette's "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad".
In 1982, Tiffany toured several cities in Alaska, earning US$3000 for the tour[citation needed]. Also that year, she performed on the same bill as Jerry Lee Lewis and George Jones. At that time, she was managed by George Tobin. In 1983, Ronald Kent Surut became her manager.
Recording contract and fame
In 1984, Tiffany was signed to a recording contract by George Tobin who heard a demo tape she recorded and liked it.
In 1985, Tiffany appeared on Star Search with Ed McMahon, but she came in second place that year.
In 1986, Tiffany signed a contract that gave Tobin total control over her career. Then, she went into the studio to record her first album, and a contract was signed with MCA. Tiffany's eponymous album, Tiffany, was released in 1987, and she promoted it by touring shopping malls across America (the originality of this approach at that time earned substantial coverage on its own). The tour kicked off at the Bergen Mall in Paramus, New Jersey. Her cover of the Tommy James & the Shondells hit, "I Think We're Alone Now" (Written by in Ritchie Cordell in 1967 Evindence : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Think_... , became a number one smash hit on the Billboard chart, propelling Tiffany to international stardom. "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied the song as "I Think I'm a Clone Now" on his album "Even Worse".
Soon she was vying with fellow pop star Debbie Gibson for space on the covers of teen magazines, including Tiger Beat, andTeen Beat, as well as on television shows on MTV. Her ballad "Could've Been" also shot to the #1 spot of the Billboard charts in February 1988. Her modified cover of "I Saw Him Standing There" and "Feelings of Forever" also saw chart success from the over 4.1 million selling debut.Tiffany also set a record for the youngest female artist to top the Billboard charts with a debut album. Later that year, she cast the then-unknown singing group New Kids on the Block as the opening act for her concert tour. During the tour she briefly dated Jonathan Knight, a relationship that was short lived because of touring difficulties.
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Acid wash denim jacket, yep. Bad 80's dancing, yep. Black guy breakdancing, yep. Studio footage including Tiffany singing with headphones on whilst holding them, yep. Security guards linking hands to hold back the crushing throng of middle aged mothers and fathers at the mall, yep. Open topped Cadillac footage including care free attitude, yep. Shadow dancing and cutting to black and white, you better believe it.
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