Dallas native Deborah Giles hit the Austin, Texas music scene in 1982 with her first band, Private Lives. The five-piece new wave/pop band garnered critical acclaim in Billboard Magazine, earning “Best Album of the Week” and “Best New Band of the Week.” Deborah’s subsequent bands landed opening slots for Huey Lewis and the News, A Flock of Seagulls, Thomas Dolby, The Fixx, Berlin, Marianne Faithfull, The BoDeans, and Greg Kihn. In 1987, Deborah was one of 20 Austin musical artists chosen to tour the Soviet Union under the Texas–USSR Musician’s Exchange. Deborah and her husband, Ron Rogers, the mastermind behind the songs Deborah sang, moved to Los Angeles in 1989, where she sang on numerous studio recordings and television and film projects. Fervor Records is home to Deborah’s recordings from 1985 to 1986.
