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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Richard Luscombe

Barry Manilow says secret relationship ‘saved my life’ during his rise to fame

Barry Manilow arrives for the 76th Tony Awards at the United Palace in New York City on 11 June 2023.
Barry Manilow arrives for the 76th Tony Awards at the United Palace in New York City on 11 June 2023. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images

Barry Manilow, whose parade of high-spirited hits from Copacabana to Mandy made him one of pop music’s most beloved showmen, has spoken out in detail about the support of the secret lover who later became his husband.

The Brooklyn-born singer, 80, revealed how Garry Kief, the star’s manager, whom he finally married in 2014 after a clandestine relationship lasting more than 35 years, “saved my life” during his rise to peak fame in the late 1970s.

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