In their made-for-TV movie Inside the Osmonds, they explain that they originally performed to earn money to help buy hearing aids for Virl and Tom, and to finance their future church missions.

The Osmond Brothers' career began in 1958 when Alan, Wayne, Merrill, and Jay began singing barbershop music for local audiences in and around Ogden. Virl and Tom were both born with severe hearing impairments. They had nine children: Virl, Tom, Alan, Wayne, Merrill, Jay, Donny, Marie, and Jimmy. and Olive Osmond, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, resided in Ogden, Utah with their family. Merrill announced his retirement in 2022. Merrill and Jay continued to perform and tour, as does Donny as a solo artist. Donny & Marie ended an 11-year Las Vegas residency on November 16, 2019. The brothers performed 'The Last Chapter', written as a farewell song and introduced in 2018. On 14 October 2019, the original Osmond Brothers quartet reunited for CBS' The Talk for their sister Marie's 60th birthday, billed as the last appearance for the lineup. Alan's son David Osmond performed with the group in 2019. The quartet continued to perform through their 50th anniversary in 2007, at which point Alan and later Wayne retired due to health issues Jimmy was recruited after Alan's retirement, with the group performing as a trio until Jimmy suffered a stroke and retired in 2018. The Osmonds have sold over 77 million records worldwide. By 1976, the band was no longer producing hit singles that year, they transitioned into television with Donny & Marie, a popular variety show that ran until 1979.Ī revival of the original Osmond Brothers lineup in the 1980s achieved moderate success in country music, and both Donny and Marie separately made comebacks in their respective fields in the late-1980s.

Their only sister Marie, who rarely sang with her brothers at that time, launched a successful career in 1973, both as a solo artist and as Donny's duet partner. With the addition of Donny, the group became known as the Osmonds performing both as teen idols and as a rock band, their peak lasted from 1971 to 1975. They were later joined by younger siblings Donny and Jimmy, both of whom enjoyed success as solo artists. The Osmond Brothers began as a barbershop quartet consisting of brothers Alan, Wayne, Merrill and Jay. The group has consisted of siblings who are all members of a family of musicians from Ogden, Utah, and have been in the public eye since the 1960s. The group had its best-known configurations as a quartet (billed as the Osmond Brothers) and a quintet (as the Osmonds). The Osmonds were an American family music group who reached the height of their fame in the early to mid-1970s.

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