Merrill Osmond
Merrill Osmond was born in Ogden, Utah, United States on April 30th, 1953 and is the Rock Singer. At the age of 71, Merrill Osmond biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Merrill Davis Osmond (born April 30, 1953) is the lead singer and bassist of The Osmond Brothers, a 1970s pop-rock band with a 1980s country music spinoff.
He continues to perform with his brothers and also without them as a solo act.
Early life
Osmond was born in Ogden, Utah, the fifth of Olive May's nine children (née Davis, 1925-1996) and George Virl Osmond (1917–2007).
Personal life
Merrill was the first of the performing Osmond siblings to marry. He married Mary Carlson on September 17, 1973; the four sons, two daughters, and 15 grandchildren have been married. Justin's second son, as well as Justin's uncles, Virl and Tom Osmond, Merrill's two oldest brothers, are deaf. Justin Osmond is a freelance writer who works with many companies and founded the Olive Osmond Perpetual Hearing Fund in 2010. Troy, Merrill's youngest son, died in his sleep on November 9, 2018 from an undiagnosed heart disease.
Merrill, like the rest of his family, is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. On his Web site, a statement of faith expressing support for the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith prophecies, as well as the church's compatibility with mainstream Christianity. All of his sons have served as missionaries, in keeping with church tradition.
Osmond said in a 2021 interview with GB News that he referred to himself as a "very conservative" individual. Former President Donald Trump had mixed feelings toward him, saying that his encounter with Trump was that he was a "good guy" but that Osmond was never comfortable with the way Trump spoke.
Career
Four of the Osmonds were cast over a seven-year period on NBC's The Andy Williams Show, a musical variety program. They also appeared in nine episodes of the 1963–64 ABC western television series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, with Merrill in the role of young Deuteronomy Kissel. The series starred then 12-year-old Kurt Russell on a wagon train headed to the American West.
A tenor/countertenor vocalist well into adulthood, Merrill was either lead singer or co-lead singer (usually sharing duties with younger brother Donny) on almost all of the Osmonds' songs and co-wrote, along with older brother Alan, many of them. When Donny began to focus on his own career in the late 1970s, Merrill grew out his beard and, along with his brothers, shifted to country music, recording a number of hits on the country charts in the 1980s; he also had one hit independent of his fellow Osmonds, a duet with session singer Jessica Boucher (younger sister of Savannah and Sherry Boucher), "You're Here to Remember (I'm Here to Forget)," which peaked at number 62 on the Hot Country Singles chart in May 1987. Osmond announced his intent to retire from performing in 2022 and performed his last American show in April of that year, with a UK tour to follow.
Merrill's final show took place at the Concorde Club, in Eastleigh, UK, on 19th October 2022.
Merrill has been twice knighted, once by the Order of Saint Michael of the Wing and once by the Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem. In May 2017, he received an honorary doctorate in humanities from Dixie State University, now known as Utah Tech University.
Osmond has sporadically hosted the podcast Sound Advice with his son Justin since 2020, produced by KSL radio.