Chico is at the far left corner of this poster


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Here is the first single off of "Love Me in a Special Way", "Time Will Reveal"

Performing it on Soul Train

Performing it on American Bandstand

Performing it live in Chicago 2 years ago

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dang chico got a big belly button. can't tell if its in or out.

I think it's an innie. Lawd, that boy didn't wanna leave from inside his mama for nothing!

scriptgirl said:

scriptgirl said:

Did El Debarge dump you?

Chic35 said:

I notice that whatever you've been posting you have not posted any links to back up your posts. So I think we can all take what you say with a grain of salt. And another thing.... it's not nice to troll on a thread, mmmmKay??

On one of the Debarge's Myspace page it states that this is El's daughter.

Chic35 said:

People can change and learn from their mistakes, BUT I do remember watching an
interview I think it was on BLACK ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISON (BET) years ago and
they had SNOOP DOGG AND HIS CREW it was about 10-12 people sitting around and
everyone was talking and I will NEVER FORGET when SNOOP (i'm not quoting)
but he was introducing everyone and when he went to the
person that all that time I thought it was this man

BIZZY BONE!! I was sitting there watching and thinking Bizzy is hanging with
snoop now, but then when EL DEBARGE came out of his mouth I did this

----->>>>> <<<<-----I never looked at him the same
because like the old saying "Birds of a feather flock together"

"El is straight gangsta now"

Bizzy had it rough too but EL looked like Bizzy in this video with
his hair down..in the interview with Snoop



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Chic35 said:

Yall aint playing with this DeBarge Thread!!! But may I say something about the incident where El got arrested for domestic violence charges. Wasn't that the girlfriend he was accused for those charges? The reason why I said that was I remember him saying in a interview he did in Chico's 9s magazine that he and his girlfriend had been going at all day and at times it got heated. She left that evening and he went to sleep. But early that next morning he woke up from some banging on his door and it was the cops. I supply the link for you.Here's a little of what he said in that article. I don't believe Monique was the one he was accused of beating up on. Unless the girlfriend is Monique and I doubt that. Again here's the link!!!


El is just coming off of a run in with the law, where he was hit with a domestic
charge that was later thrown out in court, but brought to the forefront a handful of
other unresolved issues from years back. El, now a free man talked candidly about
his arrest and brief stint in the county jail. “It was eye opening,” El said wiping down
the center island in his kitchen and pausing to explain that they had a Barbeque
earlier. There were still trays and containers of food on the stove and on the counter
behind him. El continued to recount his recent struggles, explaining that the alleged
fight was just a blow up between his girlfriend and him that “got pretty heated at
times.” He admits that it seemed to go on and on and by the end of the evening,
she was gone and he was exhausted. He says that he went to bed and was
awakened by a persistent banging at the front door of his Palmdale, CA home. It
was the police following up on a call that they had received alleging assault on his
girlfriend. El says that he remembers thinking “Oh this is great,” as he was arrested
and booked. But that was only the beginning of his legal woes. Once in the system,
the state found several prior offenses, and failure to appear charges that El had yet
to address in court. El laughs, I knew that I was going to have some time to cool my
heals.


http://www.the9smag.com/sept07.pdf

Yes, the girl pictured with El is his oldest child, Adris, who was born when El was 15. She is the assistant of Tracey Edmonds', Babyface's ex-wife.

Pics of Chico taken last month.

I read that. Who knows if El is telling the truth. He has been known to talk out of both sides of his mouth and to gloss things over.

BarackNRolla said:

Yes, you may and thank you BarackNRolla for printing this and giving us a link. What happened between El and his friend, who knows? Since he has a previous record of putting his hands on women, it's possible. BUT, PD didn't charge El because of they lack of evidence. However, it's not uncommon for women (who know their guy has outstanding warrants) to call the police after they've had a row also.
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I could never picture El beating a chick's ass. Seems like they would be play fighting or something. And might I say that Chico's lip gloss is poppin'! Damn that boy got a pout. Kissable pout, but a pout nonetheless.

In 86, El did assault a woman. It's a fact and documented in court records.

Chico is not wearing lip gloss that I can see.

his lips look kinda glisteny. maybe its chapstick?

It is his own natural lip color and also most likely, has to do something with the camera angle and lighting.

I've been thinking about this for awhile...El/DeBarge should consider doing an acoustic album of some of their songs and not neccasrily the songs released as singles. Unfournately, the live version of "SomeBody Loves You" is no longer on U-Tube but it hit home to me how amazing their harmonizing was. I still would love to know who was singing the bass chorus of "Somebody Loves You", it was so tight! Just thinking out loud, I think there may be a market for an acoustic retrospective of their music.

Actually, here is the live version of "Somebody Loves You", as performed by El on the Arsenio Hall show in '89. Notice Tommy Debarge on bass and Randy and Bunny on backing vocals.
http://vids.myspace.com/i...d=29314643

scriptgirl said:

Yes, I did! Yea, this is what I wanted to see, Bunny, Randy, and the young women who played the sax, singing the chorus. From what I can tell, no one else was mic'ed up. So, it must have been Randy singing the bass chorus "Somebody Loves You" starting a 2:57. WOW. Thanks again.

As always, my pleasure

This was in my U-Tube subscription box:The intro makes you heart a little heavy seeing how many of the great entertainer's/singer's have since passed, but anywho... here's EL opening up the the Motown/Apollo Night Special.

Here is the LINK: http://www.youtube.com/wa...qqxx4mXD7U



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I detest that rhythm song

scriptgirl said:

I think a lot of fans of El/DeBarge feel the same way you do scriptgirl.
"Rhythm Of The Night" isn't my favorite song from the group but over the years it's grown on me... a lil bit. I remember this special though, I don't remember El being the opening act. It goes to show you Motown had bigger plans for him to have him open the show.
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My oldest cousin Reena, who got me into Debarge told me more than once that as soon as she heard "rhythm", she knew it was the beginning of the end for the group.

scriptgirl said:

Well you know Barry Gordy... Mr. Pop music. As always, Mr. Gordy felt the need to put his imprint on a talented group of musicians who should've been left the hell alone to do their on thing. Many a Black artist music career has gone south because some record executive has the bright idea they needed to "crossover".

El did an interview on BET where he said,he felt restricted in his ability write/record the music he wanted at Motown.

I saw that interview. The thing is, Debarge to me, had a very limited cross over appeal. Ironic, considering that Motown thought they would be perfect for that pop market just cause of their light skin

scriptgirl said:

I don't either, the DeBarges were and are a straight up R&B/soul musicians. The long history of Motown being color struck..... I was kinda surprise a Motown executive all but admitted on Unsung, in the past they've denied such.

What do you mean the long history of Motwon being color struck?

You need to post the direct link to your vid cause you can't watch it via youtube