Saturday, November 26, 2022
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Darlene Love: Love for the Holidays Rolling Stone Magazine has proclaimed Darlene Love to be “one of the greatest singers of all time” and that certainly rings true, but perhaps Paul Shaffer says it even more concisely: “Darlene Love is Rock N’ Roll!” – which was made official when she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Bette Midler, a great fan of her work, in 2011. Through the years, Darlene Love continues to captivate audiences worldwide with her warm, gracious stage presence and superb performances. Since the early sixties, Darlene has appeared on numerous television programs and on Broadway, running the gamut from her weekly appearances on Shindig to a recent guest spot on the PBS special entitled Women Who Rock. An autobiographical film is currently on the drawing board with a development deal from Oprah Winfrey based on the book My Name is Love, written by Darlene. Her Billboard hits include: “He’s A Rebel,” “The Boy I’m Gonna Marry,” “Wait ‘Til My Bobby Gets Home,” “He’s Sure the Boy I Love” and the #1 holiday classic “Christmas Baby Please Come Home,” a song that she performed annually with Paul Shaffer and the CBS Symphony Orchestra on The Late Show With David Letterman for some 29 years before David retired. To continue this long standing tradition, Darlene performs a number of special Christmas shows every year and continues to enchant her fans with Christmas spirit. Love has held many star roles in various Broadway productions. She acted and sang in Grease, in the short-lived musical adaptation of Stephen King’s Carrie, and starred as Motormouth Maybelle in Broadway’s Hairspray from August 2005 til April 2008. She later reprised the role in the Hollywood Bowl production of the show in 2011. In the late 1980s and also in the 1990s, Love also began an acting career, playing Trish Murtaugh, the wife of Danny Glover’s character, in the four Lethal Weapon movies. In 2019, she appeared in the Netflix original movie Holiday Rush and Love recently appeared and sang in the Netflix original movie The Christmas Chronicles 2 (2020). Darlene Love has over 40 credits on musical soundstracks ranging from movies to television series dating back to the 1960’s. Some of her soundtrack features include: The View, SNL, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two, American Horror Story, Pose, Father of the Bride, GoodFellas, Gremlins, just to name a few! When Darlene Love is not gracing the stage around the world, you can catch up on one of her spectacular performances via YouTube, read about her latest adventures through many of her news articles, or watch some of her latest interviews and her comings and goings on social media. As Darlene Love turns 80 this year, she is nowhere near stopping!
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