About Me
EARLY LIFE
Donald Clark Osmond was born in Ogden, Utah on December 9, 1957 to Olive May Davis and George Virl Osmond. He is the brother of Alan, Jay, Jimmy, Merrill, Wayne, Marie, Tom and Virl Osmond. Alan, Jay, Merrill, Wayne and Donny were members of the popular singing group The Osmonds.
CAREER
Osmond became a teen idol in the early 1970's as a solo singer, in addition to performing with his older brothers. As a teen heartthrob, Donny's signature color was purple. In the mid 1970's, he teamed up with his younger sister, Marie. The duo recorded several albums together, before and during they starred in their own television variety series, Donny & Marie. When Donny & Marie came to an end, Osmond worked to reinvent himself as a solo artist. He spent several years as a performer, before collaborating with Peter Gabriel and returning to the charts in 1989 with the song "Soldier Of Love" and its follow-up "Sacred Emotion". Although his first foray into Broadway musical theatre, playing the title role in Little Johnny Jones in a Broadway revival, ended in dismal failure with the production opening and closing on the same night in March 1982, Osmond found success on the musical theater stage through much of the 1990's when he starred in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for over 2,000 performances. During this period, he suffered from Social Anxiety Disorder. Donny was the co-host of a talk show with his sister, in 1998, called The Donny & Marie Show. The show ran for two seasons, and marked the first time the brother and sister had professionally been together in twenty years. He went on to host Pyramid, a syndicated television game show that ran from 2002 to 2004. Osmond has also been tapped by CBS to host a revival of Name That Tune in 2007. Within the past few years, he has released a Christmas album, an album of his favorite Broadway songs, and a compilation of popular love songs; his voice can also be heard in the Disney animated film Mulan. In 2004, Donny returned to the UK top 10 for the first time as a solo artist since 1973 with the George Benson sampling "Breeze On By". Donny can be seen dancing in the music video of "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "White & Nerdy". The song is a parody of Chamillionaire's "Ridin", and is on Yankovic's 2006 album Straight Outta Lynwood. He returned to Broadway on September 19, 2006, in the role of Gaston in Disney's Beauty And The Beast.
PERSONAL LIFE
Donny married Debra Glenn on May 8, 1978. Together, they have five sons, the eldest being 28 year old Don Jr., and the youngest being 9 year old Joshua. In August 2005 Donny became a first-time grandfather and just recently he became a grandfather again, this time to a baby girl! Osmond, like the rest of his family, is a member of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints.
DISCLAIMER: This is a tribute site to Donny Osmond and is in no way affiliated or endorsed by Mr. Osmond.
