ATLFE & Team EL Event Announcement

We were asked by All This Love for El blog to share information about this project that they, along with Team El, have come up with: The Second Chance Event. They are asking that all El Debarge fans go out on November 30th and purchase (or re-buy) El's CD Second Chance in support of the albums 2nd anniversary. For more information, check out The Second Chance Event website.

Words & Motivation: Choose good Habits

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle

Listen: Chico DeBarge. Desperate.

Listen to: Chico DeBarge. Chico DeBarge, "Desperate". Motown Records, 1986.
Background vocals by James, Darrell and Chico DeBarge.

Words & Motivation: Never Give Up

"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope." - MLK Jr.

Flashback Article: DeBarge Is Confident in Solo Role. Schenectady Gazette, 1986

El DeBarge, a dapper young man with a glossy voice and a precocious command of pop, isn’t worried about performing solo.



He’s confident, in fact, that his dates opening for the Pointer Sisters -- one is tonight, when Anita, Ruth and June Pointer and their band headline at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, in their third area appearance in two years -- will be a lot of fun.

In a recent telephone interview from Los Angeles, the Grand Rapids, Mich., native said he’s very proud of his first solo album, “El DeBarge,” released on Gordy Records at the beginning of May.

Words & Motivation: Be Better

"Be better than you were yesterday." - anon

Listen: Bunny DeBarge. Fine Line.

(Source, Edited by TDBlog)



Listen to: Bunny Debarge. In Love, "Fine Line". Motown Records, 1987.

Words & Motivation: Worry Not

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength." -Corrie Ten Boom