Deborah has quite a number of juicy stories from her illustrious past that she keeps tucked away in her back pocket. Only when the planets are perfectly aligned does she take them out and share them with me. If I get greedy and ask for too many details, or ask her to repeat a particularly interesting part of the story, she clams up. “I don’t want to talk about it anymore,” she says.
And it’s not just the scandalous stories she likes to keep hidden. For instance, we’d been living together for three years or more before I found out about a three song demo that she recorded while living in Los Angeles in the mid-nineties.
“Do you have a copy of it somewhere?”
Deborah moved around a lot in her youth, often under less than ideal circumstances, and she hasn’t always been able to hang onto things.
“Somewhere,” she said.
“Let’s find it, I want to hear it.”
“No.”
“Aw, c’mon.”
“It’s embarrassing.”
When I finally convinced her to let me hear it, I immediately asked if I could post a song or two.
“I knew you were going to ask me that,” she said.
A year or two later, and here we are:
19 Comments
wow. very impressive. deborah has a beautiful voice.
Embarrassing? Psssh. That was lovely.
Deborah, that was gorgeous.
i dont even know what to say i am so unbelievably impressed (though you sent me this before) i can’t believe she is so modest about it. deb go be a nightclub singer again. you have the looks, the moxie, the VOICE. god jealous.
i wish i could sing, at ALL. what a beautiful voice.
Modesty is a beautiful trait. Lovely voice and song, Deb!
Now Ive never, believe it or not, had a conversation with Deborah and Ive never heard her voice in normal circumstances. The song is indeed really nice I mean.. really nice. And then Im sitting hear trying to imagine her non singing voice.
What a talent! Gorgeous voice.
I must be doing something wrong; it won’t play for me.
Deborah! Beautiful! And one of my favorite songs, too. Julia loved it, too, and wanted me to play it again.
Wow! Deborah has an absolutely lovely voice…it has a wonderful clarity and there’s such a sweetness in there. I’m so impressed! I would LOVE to see her sing in person [like someone else said, she's got the looks already..the voice too? When can I get my tickets??]
Deborah is too shy to comment, but I can tell you that she is very flattered by all the kind words.
I’ll have to write a song (or so) for her to sing.
Amazing. Would love to hear her with a gee-tar accompaniment.
Bravo Deborah! Love it!
A beautiful voice in a lovely vessel. Deborah, so glad you let Jamie share. Have your parents ever heard you sing? They would love this, I’m sure. Mom
oxoxoxox
Yes, Deborah has been singing since she was a little girl — high school musicals and all that kind of thing.
Wow. What an absolutely lovely voice. Beautiful.
Good lord, she is a great singer.