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Donny and Marie Osmond: Inside Their Early Years in Utah With Their Musical Family
The Osmonds were never destined to be your run-of-the-mill, post-World War II American family.
The first two children born to George and Olive Osmond of Ogden, Utah, named Virl and Tom, were both diagnosed as severely hearing impaired. Ignoring suggestions to have them institutionalized, Olive took a hands-on approach to helping them read, write, speak ... and tap dance.
The next four children – Alan, Wayne, Merrill and Jay – learned to harmonize together while the youngest was still crawling around in diapers. They made their public debut at a 1957 church service when Alan was 8 and Jay was 2, while Olive was pregnant with a seventh boy. The newest addition arrived in månad of that year. His name? Donny.
The Osmond children were raised in a disciplined household
As Donny recalled in his 1999 autobiography, Life is Just What You Make It: My Story so Far, the Osmond household was marked b
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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
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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