SALT LAKE CITY -- With two top-selling albums on the country charts and a third in the making, 'life couldn't be better' for Marie Osmond.
Osmond, 27, hadn't cut an album in seven years when 'There's No Stopping Your Heart' came out in 1985, netting her three top 10 singles. Her second album, 'I Only Wanted You,' has produced a No. 1 duet with Paul Davis and the title song is in the top 20.
Osmond also was a 1986 Grammy nominee for her duet with Dan Seals, 'Meet Me in Montana.' The song was named best duet by the Country Music Association. The Academy of Country Music also has nominated her as best female vocalist.
'I'm probably more excited about my life than I've ever been,' said Osmond. 'Life couldn't be better.
'This year is pretty much booked,' she added. 'We're doing a lot of great touring -- I've been working with George Strait, Mickey Gillis, Hank Williams Jr., Gary Morris, Kenny Rogers.'
Osmond was headed back to Nashville and the recording studio March 12 for a three-week stint of work on the third album.
She was in Salt Lake City recently to promote the Children's Miracle Network Telethon, a live 21-hour broadcast scheduled May 30-31 from Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. She and country music star John Schneider, of 'Dukes of Hazzard' fame, are co-chairmen of the telethon.
The telethon is one project sponsored by the Osmond Foundation in Orem, Utah, raising money for children's hospitals across the nation. The foundation will raise an estimated $38 million this year.
Osmond and her husband, record producer Brian Blosil, have a home in Utah and also plan to purchase a residence in Nashville to make it easy to pursue their careers.
She married Blosil, her second husband, in October 1985 in a ceremony held at the Jordan River Mormon Temple in Salt Lake County.
Osmond was married to Stephen Craig, a basketball star at Brigham Young University in 1982, and in a much-publicized and bitter separation, was divorced in 1985. Her son from that marriage, Stephen, is now 4 years old.
Even though Osmond's agenda includes the telethon and a few television specials, she said she has no plans nor any time for her own special.
'I've been asked to do some things on Broadway and various things, but right now, I'm really enjoying my schedule, especially being a mother,' she said. 'Touring really allows you time to have your day to yourself and at nights you perform And I really like that freedom.'
She manages to balance the demands of motherhood and career by taking Stephen on the road with her.
'It works out really well because I don't have a nanny I just take care of him myself,' she said. 'And when I'm onstage for an hour and a half or two hours he's backstage with the people there.'
Osmond's first No. 1 hit, 'Paper Roses,' came when she was 13. She cut a few albums with her brother, Donny, but says she finds true satisfaction in being an adult country music star.
'Before it was pretty much,'You're 13, you'll sing this song.' And now, being 27, I sing pretty much what I want to sing, go where I want to go, where I want to work and things I want to donate my time to,' she said. 'So life is better. I'm very happy.
'I'm not 13 anymore. I'm not a little kid. I'm a mom.'
