Darlene Love

Darlene (Wright) Love began singing as a child with her local church choir. While still in high school in 1957 she sang with the Echoes, a mixed gender doo-wop group and was then invited to join a little-known girl group called the Blossoms.
In 1962, the Blossoms were hired to sing on a recording session by producer Phil Spector with Darlene singing lead on “He’s a Rebel” which led to her signing a contract with Spector who renamed her Darlene Love. Her recording of “He’s Sure the Boy I Love” quickly followed though both songs would be credited to the Crystals.
Love became a highly sought-after singer, contributing backing vocals behind many of the biggest hits of the 1960s and worked with many rock and soul legends, including Sam Cooke, Dionne Warwick, Frank Sinatra, Bill Medley, the Beach Boys, Elvis Presley, Tom Jones and Sonny and Cher.
In her sixty year career, Love has backed up more than 200 famous musicians. Her own 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.
Rolling Stone Magazine has proclaimed Darlene Love to be “one of the greatest singers of all time” and that certainly rings true. 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.
Since the early sixties, Darlene has appeared in numerous movies, television programs and on Broadway, from her early weekly appearances on Shindig to a recent guest spot on the PBS special entitled Women Who Rock. Darlene Love continues to captivate audiences worldwide with her warm, gracious stage presence and superb performances.