{"id":12046,"date":"2026-06-22T17:06:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/?p=12046"},"modified":"2026-06-22T17:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:06:34","slug":"pop-star-hid-his-affair-with-this-man-for-39-years-they-had-a-secret-wedding-when-he-was-71-read-full-story-in-comment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/?p=12046","title":{"rendered":"Pop Star Hid His Affair with This Man for 39 Years \u2013 They Had a Secret Wedding When He Was 71\u2026. Read full story in comment,.,\/,\/,\/,\/,\/"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Barry Manilow, it all started when he decided to pursue his dream of being part of the entertainment industry. He got involved with music ever since his mother Edna and his stepfather Willie Murphy bought him a piano for $800, which took them five years to pay off. It turned out it was money well invested, as Barry would eventually make a name for himself and a career which spans decades.<\/p>\n

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Before entering the New York College of Music, Barry enrolled at the City College of New York. Later, he attended the Juilliard School, studying musical theater, and moved on to work as a log clerk at CBS.<\/p>\n

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At that period of his life, he fell in love with Susan Deixler, his high-school sweetheart whom he married when he was just 21 years old. The marriage only lasted for around two years as he felt he wasn\u2019t ready to settle down just yet and was too busy doing music. \u201cI just was not ready for marriage, I was out making music every night, sowing my wild oats. I was too young, I wasn\u2019t ready to settle down,\u201d the singer said.<\/p>\n

For years, before his big breakthrough, Barry wrote songs for commercials. He was lucky enough to feature in a Dr. Pepper commercial which, according to the man himself, \u201cpaid the rent for years.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen I lucked into writing commercials, the only way you can go up against other songwriters when you\u2019re going for a commercial is to write the catchiest melody you can write in fifteen seconds, and if you don\u2019t write the best one, then another songwriter will get the commercial,\u201d Barry\u00a0told\u00a0WHRB.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd my instinct is always to write catchy melodies. I just like doing it. And so when I started to do jingles, I won a lot of them because my melodies were catchier than the other guys\u2019 melodies.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then added: \u201cBut it was very helpful because when I found myself in the pop music world writing pop songs, which like I say I never really thought about doing, pop music is all about catchy melodies and hooks and choruses\u2026Well, learning how to do that while I was writing commercials was very helpful when i wound up writing pop songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In 1973, he released his first album titled\u00a0Barry Manilow,\u00a0<\/em>but it didn\u2019t turn into an instant hit. It wasn\u2019t until a year later that he reached heights in the industry with his single\u00a0Mandy.\u00a0<\/em>What followed were songs which topped the charts, among which the iconic\u00a0I Write the Songs<\/em>,\u00a0Could It Be Magic,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Copacabana (At the Copa)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Just five years after releasing his first album, Barry had five albums on the best-selling charts simultaneously, as well as ten No. 1 singles. His fan base grew bigger with each passing day and it became so huge that they were termed \u201cFanilows.\u201d<\/p>\n

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For a great part of his life, Barry kept a secret which burdened him, but then, at the age of 73, he decided to share it with the world. Barry Manilow came out as gay and revealed that he and his partner, Garry Kief, had been together for nearly 40 years. He confessed that the two got married back in 2014 at their Palm Springs estate.<\/p>\n

The couple first met in 1978 and started a relationship some years later. Today, they are still together and Garry works as Barry\u2019s manager and is the president of Barry Manilow Productions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew that this was it,\u201d Barry recalled of meeting Garry for the first time. \u201cI was one of the lucky ones, I was pretty lonely before that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Back in the day, being gay wasn\u2019t as accepted as it is today. Barry said he didn\u2019t wan\u2019t to reveal the secret about his sexuality in the past because he didn\u2019t know how people would react and feared for his career. Today, he\u2019s happy he opened up about being gay because nothing changed, except that his fans are happy for him.<\/p>\n

The two raised Garry\u2019s biological daughter Kristen together.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the miracle of this relationship. It\u2019s a relationship built on respect, and we\u2019ve never bumped heads about anything,\u201d Barry\u00a0told\u00a0Chicago Sun-Times.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cGarry\u2019s the smartest guy I\u2019ve ever met. He\u2019s a great manager. He takes care of my career on the business level, and I take care of the music, and we plan out what we want to do together. It\u2019s about two guys who made it through 40 years.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMaybe [coming out] will make people feel good. Maybe it will inspire some young people that they can do it, too. [Ours] has been a very positive love story. We\u2019re still talking to each other!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Another thing the famous singer opened about are his many plastic surgeries. He\u2019s not afraid to confess he had gone under the knife but doesn\u2019t want to be seen as the \u201cJoan Rivers of the guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked how he manages to stay youthful, Barry said on the British morning show\u00a0This Morning<\/em>: \u201cIt\u2019s luck, it\u2019s just blind luck. I\u2019m really very old, please let\u2019s not talk about it. It\u2019s really depressing.\u201d<\/p>\n

It took a lot of courage for Barry Manilow to come out as gay at such age, but at least he\u2019s happy he finally did it.<\/p>\n

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