ALLEN, DEBORAH
(*1953)
ALLEN, DEBORAH (b. D. Lynn Thurmond, Memphis, Tenn., September 30, 1953) Deborah Allen is a SINGER/SONGWRITER who straddles the line between new country and power pop. Allen came to Nashville at age seventeen, looking for work as a singer; instead she took a job as a waitress at the local International House of Pancakes . Fate intervened when singer ROY ORBISON stopped in for a short stack; Allen served him and convinced him that she could sing, and so he hired her as a backup singer for his…