Toni Tennille

Pop Singer

Toni Tennille was born in Montgomery, Alabama, United States on May 8th, 1940 and is the Pop Singer. At the age of 83, Toni Tennille 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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Date of Birth
May 8, 1940
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Montgomery, Alabama, United States
Age
83 years old
Zodiac Sign
Taurus
Networth
$4.5 Million
Profession
Composer, Singer, Singer-songwriter, Songwriter
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Toni Tennille Life

Cathryn Antoinette "Toni" Tennille (born May 8, 1940) is an American singer-songwriter and keyboardist best known as one half of the 1970s duo Captain & Tennille and her estranged husband Daryl Dragon's "Love Will Keep Us Together"; their signature song is "Love Will Keep Us Together." Tennille has also performed live and session work in addition to her husband's.

Early life

Tennille was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama, and has three younger sisters. 2 Frank Lavetta owned a furniture store and served in the Alabama Legislature from 1951 to 1954. Bob Crosby's Bob-Cats was a member. Cathryn (née Wright), her mother, also named Cathryn (née Wright), produced a daily television show in Montgomery for five years.

Tennille graduated from Sidney Lanier High School and later attended Auburn University in Alabama, where she studied classical piano and performed with the Auburn Knights, the university's big band.

Tennille's family moved from Montgomery, California, first as a file clerk and then as a statistical analyst for North American Rockwell Corporation, after her father's furniture store closed.

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Personal life

Tennille married her first husband, former drummer Kenneth Shearer, in June 1962 at the age of 22. They divorced in late 1972. The divorce was civil, and the parties stayed on amicable terms. Tennille married Daryl Dragon on February 14, 1974. Their accountant told them they would do "a lot more with taxes" if they were married, according to Tennille. In 2007, the couple moved from Reno, Nevada, to Prescott, Arizona. In July 2014, the couple divorced.

Tennille moved to Florida in 2015 at the suggestion of her sister Jane. Tennille said the reason for their divorce was Dragon's "inability to be affectionate" during the exhibition of her autobiography on The Today Show in the spring of 2016. Tennille's memoir revealed that amid their success and public image of a good marriage, she was lonely and lonely. Throughout their marriage, Dragons were ruled over and emotionally distant; they slept in separate bedrooms. "I can say without exaggeration that he demonstrated no physical affection for me during our lengthy marriage," she said. Dragon reacted positively to her book and the revelation by saying, "I saw you on The Today Show." She praised her book and the revelation, saying, "I saw you on the Today Show." "I was proud of you."

Despite their divorce, Tennille and Dragon remained friends until his death from kidney failure on January 2, 2019. In a February 2017 interview with People, Tennille said he had returned to Arizona to help him following a serious health problem that he hadn't faced in a previous year.

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Toni Tennille Career

Career

Tennille was a member of the South Coast Repertory while living in Corona del Mar, California, during the 1960s. Ron Thronsen, one of the repertory's founders, begged Tennille in 1969 to write the score for a new rock concert he was attending named Mother Earth. The musical was a hit in San Francisco and Los Angeles in 1971 and then transferred to Broadway for a few weeks at the Belasco Theatre in October 1972. Though Tennille was no longer associated with the musical by the time it reached Broadway, Shearer, her married name, was credited as the composer.

During Mother Earth auditions in 1971, Tennille met her future husband Daryl Dragon in San Francisco. Dragon had performed with the Beach Boys before and had performed as a studio musician with them. Dragon returned to the Beach Boys and introduced Tennille to the band after Mother Earth was over. During the band's 1972 tour, Tennille played electric piano. Tennille and Dragon were sent as Captain & Tennille in 1973 and began to perform at local clubs. They released "The Way I Want to Touch You," a local hit that helped them land a record deal with A&M Records in September 1973. In 1975, the pair performed a cover version of Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield's "Love Will Keep Us Together" which became a huge success and then went on to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year.

On Elton John's Caribou album in 1974, Tennille sang background vocals.

She appeared on Pink Floyd's The Wall in 1979, supporting vocals.

Tennille performed the national anthem at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on July 8, 1980.

Tennille's Show, a September 1980 pilot, was hosted by a syndicated television talk show.

In the national tour of the play Victor Victoria from September 1998 to June 1999, Tennille appeared as "Vivitoria Grant/Count Victor Grazinski."

Daryl Dragon, her then-wife, appeared in The Captain & Tennille Show's DVD box set for 1976-1977; this was followed by a full-length Christmas album titled The Secret of Christmas, which was released in 2007.

Tennille wrote Toni Tennille: A Memoir in April 2016 and went on a book tour to promote it later this summer. On the audiobook service Audible, Audible also had an audiobook version of the memoir.

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