The onetime teen queen, 38, opens up about her experience with the King of Pop days after his tragic death at age 50.
“I met Michael and he told me he had just watched a Disney special I did,” Deborah, who topped the charts with Lost In Your Eyes, Foolish Beat, Shake Your Love, Out of The Blue and Only In My Dreams, tells me. “I was blown away سے طرف کی the thought of the Michael Jackson sitting there watching me on TV. He then invited me to be in his Liberian Girl video. I actually was one of the few who got to sing a little snippet live over his vocal. To say it was an honor is an understatement.”
Before the Long Island sensation caused a fashion craze of her own with her signature black hat in the late 1980s, she remembers emulating the musical genius.
“At 14, I had the red جیکٹ and glove,” Deborah shares. “I was a huge fan. He was a sweet person and lived up to everything آپ wanted him to be when آپ met him. He had a receiving line an گھنٹہ long before his کنسرٹ at the Forum. To personally meet so many people and then put into his دکھائیں the energy he put in was astounding.”
Her دل goes out to the Jackson family.
She says, “I don’t think it’s about the time someone is on earth but the impact they leave. He did مزید for humanity and for موسیقی in 50 years than anyone could. It’s a shock and I’m most saddened سے طرف کی the fact that a) I believe there was مزید موسیقی in him and b) he leaves behind three young children. Everyone feels this immeasurable loss. He was an American treasure.”
