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With a career beginning at the same time as Debbie Gibson’s, the two teen pop performers have often been confused with each other and rumours abounded of feelings of animosity between this pair of 1980’s divas.

Tiffany Darwish was born on October 2^nd 1971 in Norwalk, California, daughter of Robert and Janie Darwish. With her father’s heritage being of Syrian and English descent and her mother with Irish and Cherokee descent it was of no surprise that Tiffany would have exotic and stunning looks. Her talents as a singer were established at a very young age, four in fact, when she learned the words to Delta Dawn, originally recorded by Helen Reddy, and Tiffany began singing to her then divorced parents.

By the age of ten Tiffany made her live singing debut with a country and western band and by the end of the evening she had collected a total of $235.00 by passing around a hat to the appreciative audience.The next big move in Tiffany’s singing career came when she was spotted by Hoyt Axton and moved to Tennessee to perform on the Ralph Emery Show where she charmed the audience with Tammy Wynette and Juice Newton hits.

Tiffany’s first big earnings as a performer came when she toured Alaska in 1982 grossing over $3,000 and which found her performing along side such greats as Jerry Lee Lewis and George Jones.Finally, in 1984, she signed a recording contract and released her debut single, ‘I Think We’re Alone Now’, which became a number one hit on the Billboard chart, propelling Tiffany to international stardom.

1986 saw Tiffany signing total control of her career over to her manager George Tobin, which took her to the recording studios of MCA where she laid down her best selling album ‘Tiffany’ which made the stores in 1987. She embarked on a nationwide tour across America appearing in shopping malls to promote her new album. The concept of promoting an album in shopping malls was taken up decades later by Britney Spears when she made her ‘Hair Zone Mall Tour’ across America.At this time Tiffany’s career began running into competition from Debbie Gibson’s career, and the two were constantly vying for appearances on the covers of teen magazines.

Tiffany set a record for the youngest female artist to top the Billboard charts with a debut album. Around the same time Debbie won an award for being the youngest performer to write, sing and produce a top selling single.Realizing the potential of performing with Tiffany, New Kids on the Block, the little known 1980’s group approached her and she signed them as the opening act for her concert tour. The band, consisting of brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight, Joe McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, and Danny Wood made inroads into their musical career through this tour.

Following legal problems between Tiffany’s manager and her parents in 1988 her career took a backward step when she released her second album, ‘Hold An Old Friend's Hand’ it was met with mixed reviews and did not manage to spawn any number one single hits. It did however eventually make double-platinum. Her career had made her an extremely wealthy young women and for her 18^th birthday she bought a mansion from movie star Chuck Norris. But her days of success and wealth were to be short lived as musical tastes were about to change from disco dance music to harder rock and even rap music. Tiffany never made it back to her previous ‘Teen Queen’ status.

The 1991 recording of ‘Voices that Care’ saw Tiffany appearing on the Billboard #11 hit with Celine Dion, Michael Bolton, Will Smith and Luther Vandross among a massive cast of other veteran singers.In 1992, she embarked on one of the biggest journeys of her life when she married Bulmaro Garcia and later that year she gave birth to her son, Elijah Garcia.

All grown up at the age of 30, in 2002 Tiffany appeared on the cover of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy magazine in April of that year. With a nude pictorial on the inside pages Tiffany was once more in the public spotlight.Over the years Tiffany has made a few attempts to revive her singing career but to no avail as the teen-pop "stigma" attached to her name hindered her potential success.

In 2004 Tiffany divorced her first husband and went on to marry a British man, Benn George, and moved her life to a small town called Cannock in Staffordshire, England. Tiffany still maintains connections with Los Angeles.In 2006 the British girl band, ‘Girls Aloud’ covered Tiffany's best known song "I Think We're Alone Now" on their greatest hits album ‘The Sound of Girls Aloud’.

In an attempt to regain her 1980’s figure, 2007 saw Tiffany as one of the contestants on the fifth season of the British TV show ‘Celebrity Fit Club’, which has also seen celebrities such as Daniel Baldwin, Mia Tyler, Kelly LeBrock and model and actress Erika Eleniak.

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