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The Kept Ones: The Fame Years (Volume 2)

by Bunny Debarge

Family, fame, and the years behind the music

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Family, fame, and the years behind the music

The second volume of Bunny DeBarge’s trilogy begins in 1979, as she leaves Grand Rapids with her two young children to join her already-famous brothers Bobby and Tommy in Hollywood. Their success with the R&B group Switch forms the backdrop to a family story that, according to DeBarge’s account, shifts from early stardom toward hardship played out partly in public. The book traces the DeBarge family’s rise and setbacks through her perspective, while also addressing forgiveness, self-awareness, and faith. Its focus extends beyond the music-industry ascent to the personal and family challenges that accompanied it.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Bunny DeBarge’s account of her family and its place in R&B music.
  • Readers drawn to music biographies that connect public fame with family experience.
  • Readers interested in memoirs addressing forgiveness, self-awareness, and faith.

Themes

R&B music and fameFamily historyPublic and private hardshipForgiveness and self-awarenessFaith

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Book overview

In this second book of the Bunny DeBarge trilogy, 'The Kept Ones: The Fame Years" Bunny presents captivating revelations detailing her family's rise to the top of R&B music royalty and how they each came tumbling down, one DeBarge member at a time.

 

And so the story begins in 1979 with Bunny and her two young children preparing to leave the bitter cold of their small hometown in Grand Rapids, Michigan to follow the lead of her already famous brothers, Bobby and Tommy DeBarge in the sunshine, glitz and glam of fabulous Hollywood, where they'd already established success and notoriety as members of the R&B group, "Switch". An exciting time indeed for an emerging young star experiencing her first taste of stardom! As you turn the pages, one chapter at a time, Bunny's definitive story of what began as a glamorous life, takes a dark and turbulent turn.

 

This is the inspiring story of a beautiful, extremely gifted and hopeful musical family and how they navigated through the best and the toughest of times, with many of their hardships playing out in the public eye. Readers will be astonished with the way in which Bunny DeBarge so eloquently delivers her testimony about her life as she saw it. Read on to see how Bunny untangles the importance of forgiveness, the value of self-awareness and the importance of recognizing that GOD's hand was on her life. She was always and will forever be The Kept One.

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