BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Full Name: Cathryn Antoinette Tennille
Description: Vocalist, Composer, USA
Known For: Known for the duo team Captain and Tennille, with Daryl Dragon.
Instruments: Voice
Music Styles: Popular
Location: United States of America
Date Born: 8th May 1940
Location Born: Montgomery, Alabama, United States of America
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Toni Tennille
Cathryn Antoinette “Toni” Tennille (born May 8, 1940) is an American singer-songwriter and keyboardist, best known as one-half of the 1970s duo Captain & Tennille with her husband Daryl Dragon; their signature song being “Love Will Keep Us Together”. Tennille has also done musical work independently of her husband, including solo albums and session work. Tennille has a contralto vocal range.
Tennille was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama, as part of a family of entertainers. Her father, Frank Tennille, who used the pseudonym Clark Randall, was a big band singer with Bob Crosby and the Bobcats and her mother, Cathryn Tennille, was a local television pioneer, being the hostess of Montgomery’s first daytime TV talk show. Tennille’s musical sisters, Jane, Louisa, and Melissa, all sang on her variety TV shows, as well as on the Captain & Tennille albums. Tennille began her career studying classical piano at Auburn University and singing with the university’s big band, the Auburn Knights. Her sister, Louisa Tennille, is the background singer in her band.
Tennille is credited as singing backup vocals on Pink Floyd’s The Wall ; However, all of her parts except the groupie monologue on the song One of My Turns were ultimately scrapped and re-recorded by others before the album was released. She also did backup singing for Art Garfunkel on Breakaway as well as for Elton John on his albums Caribou, Blue Moves, 21 at 33 and most notably on the song, “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me”.
On July 8, 1980, Tennille sang the national anthem at the Major League Baseball All-Star game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
Tennille is 5 feet 11 inches (180 cm) tall. She married her first husband Kenneth Shearer in June 1962 at the age of 22. They divorced in late 1972. She then married Daryl Dragon on November 11, 1975. Tennille toured with The Beach Boys during the 1970s with Daryl Dragon, both playing keyboards for the group.
Education
Tennille graduated from Sidney Lanier High School and Auburn University in Alabama.
Discography
Main article: Toni Tennille discography
Studio albums
More Than You Know (1984)
All Of Me (1987)
Never Let Me Go (1991)
Things Are Swingin’ (1994)
Incurably Romantic (2001)
Divorce
The couple moved from Reno, Nevada to Prescott, Arizona in 2007. Toni Tennille filed for divorce after 39 years of marriage on January 16, 2014. Dragon said he was unaware of any discontent until being served with the divorce papers.
The divorce was finalized in July, 2014. In 2015, Tennille moved to Florida at the suggestion of her sister, Jane.