With Two Famous Parents, Show Biz Is a Natural Course for Fisher

Tricia Leigh Fisher just turned 22 but she is a seasoned show business veteran.

The daughter of singers Eddie Fisher and Connie Stevens, Fisher was 5 when she and her sister began accompanying their mother on tour. “If we felt like singing, we would do a little song just because my sister and I loved it so much,” she says.

Eventually, Stevens hired her daughters to be her official backup singers. “It kept the family together and was great training,” Fisher explains.

The constant touring also meant Fisher spent little time in school. “We would have tutors,” she says. “I changed schools a lot.”

But her education didn’t suffer. “I think I got a lot of education from traveling around,” Fisher says. “I am a person who I would like to think is very aware of the world. I think I have been exposed to a lot.”

Fisher has just released her first album. “It’s basically pop/dance stuff,” she says. “It’s doing pretty well in the clubs.” She also has several films (“Stick,” “C.H.U.D. II”) to her credit and is currently starring with teen heartthrob Chris Young in the ‘50s-era comedy “Book of Love.”

“I love doing comedy,” she says. “I am the type of person who is always joking around. I love making people laugh.”

Fisher’s learned a lot from her two famous parents. “My father, whom I didn’t grow up seeing all the time, the things he had to deal with, the hardships he’s endured, is a lesson in itself,” she says.

The most important advice her mother gave her is “you really can’t let your successes or your failures define who you are,” Fisher says. “If you have that ambition and the fire, then it really doesn’t matter. If I was to go crazy about every part I haven’t gotten that I was real close on, then I would be miserable. I want to be successful, but it doesn’t really make or break my life. I still have a great time.”