Innate to parents Olive and George Osmond, Donny is best known for existence half of the brother-sister cantabile work Donny & Marie. He is the brother of Alan, Jay, Jimmy, Merrill, Wayne, Marie, Tom, and Virl Osmond. Them oldest tikes, Tom & Virl, were hearing-impaired; Alan, Jay, Merrill, Wayne, and Donny were members of the popular cantabile class action The Osmond Brothers. Donny became the teenaged idol in the early 1970s when he broke away from his older brothers to be the solo work.

In the mid '70s, Donny was paired higher using his immature sister, Marie. A duo recorded many albums together prior to & when starring in their have television kind series, Donny & Marie which aired on ABC from 1976-1979. He married Debra Glenn in 1978.

Once Donny & Marie ended, Donny tried to reinvent himself as a solo creative person. Donny spent many years as a performing artist prior to giving to the U.S. charts with the song "Soldier of Love" and its followup "Sacred Emotion." Within the past few years, he has released a Christmas album, an album of his favorite Broadway songs, and a compilation of popular love songs; his voice can also be heard in the Disney animated film Mulan, in which he sings "I'll Make A Man Out of You."

Donny likewise witnessed profits on the musical theater stage when he starred within Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. In the period of time of this period, he suffered from either Social Anxiety Disorder. He was the cohost of a chat show by using Marie inside 1998 also called Donny & Marie. A indicate run deuce seasons, & marked a 1st instance a brother & sister experienced been together professionally around twenty years. Donny went in to carrier Pyramid, a syndicated television giveaway, which ran from either 2002 until cancellation in 2004.

Donny, rather a rest of his personal, occurs as member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He received occasionally criticism from either members for non serving the mission like his religion encourages, but virtually all of the furor above this want of service has died down. Inside retrospect, he states, "It would have been nice to be able to have served a regular full time mission, but when I was of that age, my career was such that everyone, including my parents and the leaders of the church, thought that I could do a lot of good in the world by continuing being in the public eye, by living an exemplary life and sharing my beliefs in every way that I could" (world wide web.donny.com).

Around 2004, Donny Osmond returned to the UK Top 1First as a solo creative person since 1973, with a George Benson-sampling "Breeze On By", co-written sustaining fellow previous teenaged idol Gary Barlow, of 1990s UK boy band Take That.