Debbie Thomas (3)

Debbie Thomas was a Greek-American 80s teen pop queen, born in Houston, TX in the mid-1970s, and an imaginary persona conceived in the mind of a 10-year old girl in Athens, Greece, around 1989. Between 1989 and 1991, the persona made several world tours, released four platinum albums (in three languages), became a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and started her own charity. Meanwhile, the 10-year old performed her music on school nights and weekends on the family piano, composing songs on demand for friends, family and local scene heroes who happened to witness her. Then, sometime in early 1992, she dropped it all and went silent for about 20 years. In 2012, Danae Stefanou, a 33-year-old musicologist based in Athens, decided to dig up her parents' basement and retrieve her childhood tapes. Bringing Debbie back to life, she digitised them, scanned handwritten lyrics and memorabilia, and asked some of her highly-esteemed friends to contribute their own responses to Debbie's unlikely legacy