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Interview: Busy Bobbie Eakes
‘I had beenwanting toput togethera group for along time.’
Bobbie Eakes
SoapNet / Marina Chavez
By CINDY ELAVSKY
Published: 6/7/2009 5:27 AM
Last Modified: 6/7/2009 5:44 AM
While “All My Children’s”
Krystal Carey always seems to
have her hands full – whether it’s
juggling men or juggling secrets –
her portrayer, Bobbie Eakes, is a
pretty busy woman herself. Only
Bobbie isn’t up to no good – she’s
making beautiful music.
Since June of last year, Bobbie
and fellow soap stars Kassie DePaiva
(Blair, “One Life to Live”) and
Kathy Brier (ex-Marcie, “OLTL”)
have been performing to packed
audiences as the Divas of Daytime.
This year, the Divas will also be
featured performers at the Country
Music Association’s Music Festival
Saturday and a few accoustic sets
throughout the weekend.
Bobbie explains how the Divas
came about: “I had been wanting to
put a group together for a long
time. My first idea was a group
where I’d be the only girl and have
a couple of soap hunks, where it
would be a girl and a couple of
guys. At the time, Vincent Irizarry
was one of the guys I was talking
to, and he was in L.A. doing ‘The
Young and the Restless.’ It was logistically
hard to get everyone together,
because the people I wanted
to use were spread out. Then I
thought, ‘Why not three girls? It
would be cool to have a trio.’”
Bobbie didn’t have to look far to
find her musical accomplices. “I
immediately thought of Kassie and
Kathy, because I had done duets
with both of them. They were excited
about the idea – the enthusiasm
was there, the availability was
there, and we were all on the same
page about it.”
Performing with the Divas is, as
Bobbie says, “an absolutely a joy.
We just laugh all the time. We
laugh at what we say, and we also
get a kick out of our songs.
Singing together in the three-part
harmonies that we’ve put together
just really seems to work. It’s very
rewarding.”
Fans who want to catch the Divas
in concert can expect one main
thing: fun. “The show is mostly
music – with songs most people
recognize from the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s
and ’90s – with between-song banter.
We also do some current stuff
with maybe a few original songs
tossed in there. It’s the kind of
show that you can sing along to.
You come away feeling that you’ve
been to a party.”
Meanwhile, Bobbie has been
very busy on “AMC” with her firecracker
alter ego, Krystal. “When I
was Macy on ‘The Bold and the
Beautiful,’ I didn’t work near as
much as I’ve been working since
coming to ‘AMC.’
“Immediately I was so fulfilled
with the character. In the beginning,
Krystal came in swinging
pretty hard. Now she’s pretty much
woven into the Pine Valley scene,
and she’s a little bit subdued. She’s
definitely very layered, and they
continue to write very interesting
stories for her.”
Krystal presently has her hands
full with two big stories: the discovery
of a long-lost daughter,
Babe’s fraternal twin, Marissa, and
the murder of Stuart Chandler.
Bobbie explains: “The murder story
line is a big story line, but it is also
happening at the same time that
Krystal is having her daughter story
line with Marissa. Krystal is implicated
in the murder; a lot of people
are implicated. There is a lot of action,
and the show is moving really
really fast, so hold on!”
“AMC” airs at noon weekdays
on ABC, channel 8.
By CINDY ELAVSKY
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