[16] In 1983, Gibson submitted a cassette recording of her original composition "I Come From America" to WOR for the station's song contest.

After she won a cash prize of US$1,000 from the contest, her mother convinced a relative to loan her US$10,000 to convert the family garage into a recording studio.

[17] After Gibson had written and produced her own material for years, a demonstration tape of hers submitted to a radio personality was eventually shared with an executive at Atlantic Records.

Solely on the basis of Gibson's original song "Only in My Dreams", she was signed to a development deal and began a promotional tour of club venues throughout the United States.

The single "Only in My Dreams" was released in December 1986 and landed in the Billboard Hot 100 chart beginning in May 1987, peaking at number four that September.

During that time, she was part of the supergroup that recorded the charity single "Voices That Care", which peaked at number 11 on the Hot 100 chart.

It was an adult contemporary-heavy album consisting of piano and keyboard ballads recorded predominantly with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

She sang background vocals on the song "I Wanna Destroy You", as well as appearing at and participating in the Circle Jerks' performance[25] at the punk venue CBGB wearing one of the band's T-shirts and sharing a microphone with frontman Keith Morris.

Highlights from the album include the sultry Latin-flavored smooth jazz song "In Blue", a vintage-style ballad "Wishing You Were Here", "Jaded", and a remix of "M.Y.O.B."

"Lost in Your Eyes" was revamped with an acoustic sound and a song "Someone You Love" was written and performed by Gibson and the O'Neill Brothers.

Her single "Your Secret" came back from its dormant state and became popular on some radio stations, including Super 91.7 WMPH in Wilmington, Delaware.

[citation needed] The same year, Gibson appeared in the independent film Coffee Date with Wilson Cruz and Jonathan Silverman and provided a soundtrack song called "Sounds Like Love".

In May 2008, Gibson performed her 1980s hits, along with her Broadway role songs, during a three-run week at Harrah's in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Then on the 24th, Gibson hosted and performed on Spotlightlive '80s Karaoke Experience in New York[39] singing songs such as "Only in My Dreams", "Out of the Blue", "Love Shack" (an original hit for the B-52's) and "9 to 5".

She performed with Samantha Fox, Tiffany, and Rick Astley at the Colisée Pepsi in Quebec City, Canada, on April 10, 2009.

[42] She also became a spokesperson for Murad's Resurgence Skin Care and plays piano and sings a line of the song called "Cougar".

Gibson performed as Mother Nature in Cirque Dreams' Jungle Fantasy at Foxwoods Resort Casino from July 27 to September 1, 2010.

Gibson covered J-pop tunes for the album that were originally sung by Japanese artists such as Chage and Aska ("Say Yes"), Yutaka Ozaki ("I love you"), Miho Nakayama and WANDS (Sekaijū no Dare Yori Kitto) among others, plus a Japanese/English version of her number-one hit "Lost in Your Eyes" and a duet with Eric Martin.

[51] In June 2018, Gibson appeared in the music video of American heavy-metal band Voices of Extreme's cover version of "Foolish Beat".

[57] Gibson performed at the 2025 Rose Parade singing "Electric Youth" as part of the Grand Finale presented by the Mansion Entertainment Group with Betty Who and the Debbie Allen Dance Academy dancers.

[66] Gibson co-hosted Nickelodeon's first Kids' Choice Awards in 1988, alongside Tony Danza, Brian Robbins, and Dan Schneider.

[citation needed] She co-starred with actor Lorenzo Lamas in the low-budget action/adventure film Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus, produced by The Asylum and released on May 19, 2009.

In January 2006, she joined the cast of Skating with Celebrities on Fox Television, partnered with Canadian former world-champion figure skater Kurt Browning.

[76][77] Gibson was fired on April 1, 2012, in the seventh task because she had brought in the least amount of money between her teammates in the boardroom, Dayana Mendoza and Teresa Giudice.

given that Mendoza was cited as the women's weakest link and Giudice had failed the task as project manager, Gibson was fired, instead.

In the episode titled "Bloody Celestial Karaoke Jam", she plays a mother who sings "Every Breath You Take" with Lucifer Morningstar (Tom Ellis) in an interrogation room.

She also made popular wearing tight, rolled-up jeans, vests over a T-shirt, friendship bracelets and two Swatch watches as on the back cover of her album Electric Youth and in her music video "Staying Together".

Her influences were Madonna and Olivia Newton-John, though she has often stated she admires Elton John and Billy Joel as favorite artists and was asked to sing and perform live with both at the former's Madison Square Garden concert, which she did.

Robert Bardo, who was convicted of murdering actress Rebecca Schaeffer in 1989, had a wall in his house adorned with pictures of Gibson and Tiffany Darwish.

[93] In May 1998, Michael Falkner, a disgruntled fan from Eau Claire, Wisconsin was arrested outside Manhattan's Palace Theatre, where Gibson was performing in the live-musical adaptation of Disney's Beauty and the Beast.