Shannon Rubicam

Shannon Rubicam (born October 11, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter who is best known for being half of the mid-to-late-1980s pop duo Boy Meets Girl.

Her husband, George Merrill, was the other half of Boy Meets Girl, best known for their 1988 hit " Waiting for a Star to Fall".Hunt, Dennis (February 21, 1989)
Album Pulls at the 'Reel Life' Heartstrings of Boy Meets Girl
'' Los Angeles Times'', Retrieved November 22, 2010Graham, Jefferson (December 28, 1988)
Boy Meets Girl: Now their `Star' is rising
'' USA Today'', Retrieved November 22, 2010 Merrill and Rubicam first met in 1975 when both were performing at a friend's wedding.(January 16, 1989)
Boy Meets Girl! Boy Loses Girl! But Now They're Back Together, and Singing in An Altared State
'' People'', Retrieved November 22, 2010 The couple also wrote two hit songs for Whitney Houston, " How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)", both of which hit Number 1 in the United States, among other countries, during the second half of the 1980s, just before Boy Meets Girl shot to fame.

Merrill and Rubicam have one child, a daughter named Hilary, who appeared in their "Waiting for a Star to Fall" video as the young blonde-haired girl. They divorced in 2000 but have continued working together for various music projects.Mann, Brent
99 Red Balloons...and 100 Other All-Time Great One-Hit Wonders
p.71-73 (2003) ()Shannon biography
Boymeetsgirlmusic.com, Retrieved November 22, 2010

In 2011, Rubicam published her first novel, titled ''The Wonderground''.

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Living people
1951 births
American women songwriters
Musicians from Seattle
Boy Meets Girl members
20th-century American singers
21st-century American singers
20th-century American women singers
21st-century American women singers