Tiffany Darwish

Tiffany Renee Darwish (born October 2, 1971), known mononymously as Tiffany, is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and former teen icon.

Tiffany Renee Darwish was born on October 2, 1971, in the Los Angeles suburb of Norwalk, California, to Janie Wilson and James Robert Darwish, who divorced when she was 14 months old.

Tiffany's father is of Lebanese origin and her mother is of Irish and Native American descent.

Tiffany began singing at age four when she learned the words to the Tanya Tucker song "Delta Dawn".

After her parents' divorce, she lived with her father and attended Norwalk High School during her freshman and sophomore years and then attended Norwalk's Leffingwell Christian High School.

Since then, Tiffany has recorded five additional studio albums, as well as two albums of 1980s cover songs, and she continues to tour.

In 1981, Tiffany debuted with country music singer Jack Reeves at a country and western venue, Narods, in Chino, California.

She passed a hat among the crowd afterwards, and collected $235 in what were her first career earnings.

When Tiffany was singing at the Palomino Club, she was discovered by Hoyt Axton and his mother Mae Axton.

Mae took her to sing in Nashville, Tennessee, where she performed on WSMV's The Ralph Emery Show, singing Juice Newton's "Queen of Hearts" and Tammy Wynette's "Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad".

In 1984, Tiffany signed a recording contract with George Tobin after he heard her sing on a demo tape.

In 1985, she appeared on Star Search with Ed McMahon, where she finished in second place overall.

In 1986, she signed a contract that gave Tobin total control over her career, recorded her debut studio album and was signed to an MCA contract.

Her 1987 cover of the Tommy James and the Shondells song "I Think We're Alone Now" spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and was released as the second single from her debut studio album Tiffany.

Her singles "Could've Been" and "I Saw Him Standing There", a cover version of the Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There", followed soon after, with the former also claiming the No. 1 position on the Billboard Hot 100.

Thanks to an original mall tour, "The Beautiful You: Celebrating The Good Life Shopping Mall Tour '87", Tiffany found commercial success; and both her singles and the album peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200 charts, respectively.

The album, Tiffany, was released in 1987, but the first single she released from it, "Danny", failed to chart.

Following the failure of "Danny", Tobin sent Tiffany on a nationwide tour of shopping malls, The Beautiful You: Celebrating the Good Life Shopping Mall Tour '87.

The tour began at the Bergen Mall in Paramus, New Jersey.

Her second single, a cover of Tommy James and the Shondells' hit, "I Think We're Alone Now", became a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 list.

It remains her biggest hit.

Tiffany's second studio album, Hold an Old Friend's Hand, featured a Top 10 single, charted on the Billboard 200 in 1988, and ultimately achieved platinum status, although it did not replicate the success of her debut album.

Tiffany's ballad "Could've Been" also peaked at the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts, in February 1988.

Tiffany's modified version of the Beatles' "I Saw Her Standing There", retitled "I Saw Him Standing There", peaked at the No. 7 position on the Hot 100.

"Feelings of Forever" also had chart success.

Tiffany set a record for the youngest female artist to top the Billboard charts with a debut album.

Later that year, she toured, with boy band New Kids on the Block as her opening act.

In 1988, at the peak of her popularity, Tiffany was embroiled in a conflict in which Tobin fought her mother and stepfather over control of her career and earnings.

This led to a court fight in which Tiffany tried to have herself declared an emancipated minor.

This was rejected by the court, but the judge did allow her to move out of her mother's home, and her grandmother (who sided with Tiffany during the trial) became her temporary guardian.

In late 1988, Tiffany released her second studio album, Hold an Old Friend's Hand, which was less successful than her debut.

Although it did not include any number-one hits, the song "All This Time" made the top 10.

The album received positive reviews from critics, and immediately went platinum.

Shortly after turning eighteen, Tiffany left Tobin's management and signed with Dick Scott and Kim Glover, who managed New Kids on the Block, by then a successful boy band.

The 1990s saw two additional releases from Tiffany, 1990's New Inside and the Asia-exclusive Dreams Never Die in 1993, both of which failed to rekindle significant interest.

Tiffany's career suffered as musical tastes changed in the early 1990s, moving away from dance-pop and towards harder-edged rock and rap.

Some of her fans found the new soulful, sultrier Tiffany in her third studio album, the urban-influenced New Inside (1990), less appealing than earlier work.

Tiffany returned in 2000 with her first studio album in six years, The Color of Silence.

Although the album received some minor critical success, it also failed to achieve any significant standing.

Outside of music, Tiffany posed nude in Playboy and has guest-starred on several reality television shows, including Celebrity Fit Club, Australia's version of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling, and has acted in a handful of horror and science fiction films, including Necrosis (2009), Mega Piranha (2010), and Mega Python vs. Gatoroid (2011).