Deborah Ann "Debbie" Gibson (born August 31, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter who was a teen pop icon. She was popular in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. At the age of seventeen, Gibson was the youngest female to write, produce, and perform a Billboard Hot 100 #1 hit single (in the USA) with her song "Foolish Beat," effectively taking the crown from her then teen idol George Michael (who had ironically been asked to produce "Foolish Beat" but passed on the opportunity).She appeared rep