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Cathryn Antoinette "Toni" Tennille (born May 8, 1940) is an American singer-songwriter and keyboardist, best known as one-half of the 1970s duo Captain & Tennille with her husband Daryl Dragon; their signature song being "Love Will Keep Us Together".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.macleans.ca/politics/an-mp-misses-a-million-dollar-photo-op-and-captain-dragon-and-toni-tennille-call-it-quits/ )〕 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.superseventies.com/1975_1singles )〕 Tennille has also done musical work independently of her husband, including solo albums and session work. Tennille has a contralto vocal range. ==Life and career== Tennille was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama, as part of a family of entertainers. Her father, Frank Tennille, who used the pseudonym Clark Randall, was a big band singer with Bob Crosby and the Bobcats and her mother, Cathryn Tennille, was a local television pioneer, being the hostess of Montgomery’s first daytime TV talk show. Tennille's musical sisters, Jane, Louisa, and Melissa, all sang on her variety TV shows, as well as on the Captain & Tennille albums. Tennille began her career studying classical piano at Auburn University and singing with the university's big band, the Auburn Knights. Her sister, Louisa Tennille, is the background singer in her band. Tennille is credited as singing backup vocals on Pink Floyd's ''The Wall'' ; However, all of her parts except the groupie monologue on the song One of My Turns were ultimately scrapped and re-recorded by others before the album was released. 〔" . On July 8, 1980, Tennille sang the national anthem at the Major League Baseball All-Star game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Tennille is tall. She married her first husband Kenneth Shearer in June 1962 at the age of 22. They divorced in late 1972. She then married Daryl Dragon on November 11, 1975. Tennille toured with The Beach Boys during the 1970s with Daryl Dragon, both playing keyboards for the group. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Toni Tennille」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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