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Toni Tennille is known as a singer and songwriter. The song that she is most famous for is called "Love Will Keep Us Together". She and her <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Dragon">ex-husband</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Dragon">Daryl Dragon</a> performed the song together as a band called Captain & Tennille.

Background

Toni Tennille was born as Kathryn Antoinette Tennille on May 08, 1940. Toni was raised in Alabama and she is a part a <a href="/biography/toni-tennille">family</a> of the entertainers. Frank Tennille, her father used Clark Randal as a stage pseudonym and together with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Crosby">Bob Crosby</a> he was the singer for the Bobcats. Kathryn Tennille, her mother was a local television pioneer and the hostess for the first daytime TV talk show in Montgomery, Alabama.

Tennille graduated from Sidney Lanier High School before attending Auburn University in Alabama for two years. Her sisters Melissa, Louisa, and Jane sang on different TV shows. They are also on the Captain and Tennille albums. She started the path to her music career when she was learning classical piano at Auburn University and singing with the university band called ‘Auburn Knights’. Her sister Louisa joined her and was the background singer in the band.

Music Career and Touring The World

As a singer, she has been able to get the legend tag. Some of her more known songs are, ‘You Need a Woman’, ‘Do that To Me One’, and ‘The Way I Want To’. Toni was a <a href="/biography/toni-tennille">backup singer</a> for Breakaway and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Garfunkel">Art Garfunkel</a> together with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_John">Elton John</a> on the albums 33, 21, Blue Moves, and Caribou. She has also did some solo work without involving her husband. She uses the contralto vocal range which is pleasant for the ears of her fans. Captain & Tennille is the band that she is most known for.

In an interview with Classic Bands, Toni talked about life on the road as a touring musician. When asked about one of the important members on her team, she went into detail about the role of a road manager. Without a road manager, things can get hectic for a touring band. The band needs to stay focused as much as possible on the music and their performance so they need their road manager to handle everything else. Toni and her band appreciated their road manager deeply, “Our road manager does everything that they possibly can. They check 12 hours before we arrive, and it's always not right. So, it's just that kind of frustration of being on the road. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Dragon">Daryl</a> and I are exercisers. We live in the foothills of the High Sierras. So, every day when we're home, we're up in the hills for an hour with the dogs, hiking. And when you're on the road you can't do that.”

Keeping up with healthy nutrition and staying physical active is tough for people who tour because sometimes not all the options are available, “Some of the hotels nowadays do have gyms which is better than it used to be. We also watch what we eat and that's also hard to do when you're on the road. You're stuck with hotel food for the most part. It's just confining if you end up at a hotel, in a downtown area, where you're surrounded by nothing but downtown, and there's no place to hike. We're sort of open air people. (Laughs) So, it's not my favorite kind of life. And I say this as someone who's gonna be on the road for a year.”

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The urge for nature and feeling of wanting to get away from the city life might tempt some band members to skip out on some dates but Toni and her band have a pretty clean record, “I think over the 20 some odd years we've been touring, we've missed one and that was at the Garden State Arts Center in New Jersey, because of airlines and screw-ups. “

Sometimes the band would end up at a concert where they were running on fumes and had zero sleep due to delayed flights. There have been times when they arrive right before the start time of their concert. That’s one of Toni’s biggest concerns because she doesn’t think that is fair for the fans. She’d rather pass out from being tired than miss out on performing in front of her fans.

Personal Life

Toni Tennille dated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Dragon">Daryl Dragon</a> for some time before they got married in 1975. An interesting fact behind their marriage is that Toni revealed how A&M Records pushed the duo into marriage. A&M Records issued a press release which mentioned the wedding of the Toni and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Dragon">Daryl</a> on Valentine’s Day. However, the actual wedding took place right after a few months at the Silver Queen Saloon in Virginia City, Nevada.

Toni regretted being loyal to her pressured marriage vows and was disappointed in herself for tolerating a loveless marriage for nearly 40 years. Toni asked for a divorce when they moved in Arizona. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Dragon">Daryl</a> said that he was surprised by the divorce papers since he was not aware that she was unhappy

Toni filed for divorce after 39 years of marriage on January 16, 2014. She had been in a never ending search for her ‘soul’ in the failed marriage. After the divorce, Toni went to live in Florida which her sister suggested. She was determined to live alone and is content with her decision. Toni does not have children and is happy to dodge a bullet. She did not want children with a many that she did not really love.

Toni has repeatedly called her ex-husband a difficult man who is very difficult to handle and deal with. Toni and her ex-husband were not compatible enough but they did things together like tour as a band. Music is what she claims is the only thing that worked between them.

She is not involved too much on social media but she has a twitter handle @ToniTennille. The career she had throughout the years has helped her get enough to build a net worth of 9 million dollars. There are many websites where people could get more information about her.

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