Donnie Demers has had a charmed life with a loving family, childhood performing, and success after success until the multi-platinum record days in France. His began playing the piano at the age of four, but his first entry into performance was when he became the poster child for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and joining his aunt, a singer, on stage performing a well-known song. The audience went crazy. He liked that.
His first national television appearance was on the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon. Audience reaction for his music and performance has always been stunning wherever he appeared on stage.
To hear Donnie talk about his professional life and his partnership with his brother is a joy. His relationship with his mother, who was everything to him, and his appreciation for all she was to him and did for him is beautiful. The way he credits his mother for raising him to be independent and with full potential reached is a lesson in what motherhood is at its best. Her death was the worst thing that ever happened to him, and yet she was able to turn it into a last valuable lesson for him.
Hard to describe the ease, candor and comfort with which Donnie lives his life of close friendships, admiration of his peers (he was appreciated as the piano kid in school) and deep gratitude for all he has. His take on stardom today (i.e. Taylor Swift, Olivia Newton John, and Lady Gaga), and his love for Karen Carpenter? Best to hear it all from him directly.
And, his love letters? Get a box of Kleenex ready. He wrote regularly to one of his teachers right until a month before she died at 94. The letter she wrote him he posted on his FB page so filled with joyful information at https://www.facebook.com/donniedemersmusic .
