--- title: Barry Manilow on Marrying Husband Garry Kief description: Barry Manilow opened up for the first time publicly about his marriage to husband Garry Kief, noting that he's very "proud of it." canonical: https://time.com/4726893/barry-manilow-on-husband/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-05T17:43:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:34.523Z og:title: Barry Manilow Opens Up About Marrying His Husband Garry Kief og:description: "I'm Proud of It" og:url: https://time.com/4726893/barry-manilow-on-husband/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Barry Manilow Opens Up About Marrying His Husband Garry Kief twitter:description: "I'm Proud of It" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Barry Manilow Opens Up About Marrying Husband Garry Kief for the First Time: 'I'm Proud of It'  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 5, 2017 5:43 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 5, 2017 5:43 PM UTC After being together for nearly four decades, [Barry Manilow](http://time.com/3700212/grammys-2015-winners-nominations/) is finally publicly opening up about his [relationship with husband and manager Garry Kief](http://people.com/celebrity/barry-manilow-marries-manager-garry-kief/) for the first time. In an interview with [_Entertainment Tonight_](http://www.etonline.com/music/214503%5Fbarry%5Fmanilow%5Fbreaks%5Fhis%5Fsilence%5Fon%5Fmarrying%5Fgarry%5Fkief%5Ffor%5Ffirst%5Ftime%5Fon%5Fcamera%5Fi%5Fm%5Fproud%5Fof%5Fit/)_,_ Manilow shared why he chose to keep his personal life private for so many years. “Everybody knows that we’re a team,” he said. “Everybody that I know knows. So it never really dawned on me to say anything about it. I mean, I’m a very private guy. I don’t even like people knowing the names of my dogs, so for the public to get that close was really very… it was strange that we were even talking about it,” he adds. “But I don’t mind at all. I’m proud of it, I am. I’m proud of it.” Manilow also noted that he was touched by the positive support from his fans about his relationship, after [news broke](http://people.com/celebrity/barry-manilow-marries-manager-garry-kief/) in 2015 that he and Kief had tied the knot. “I don’t know, maybe they care about everybody, but for me, it is so moving, it is so deep that these strangers were so happy that I was happy,” he said. “That I wasn’t alone, that I had somebody that was with me that I loved and that we’d been together for 37 years. We’re in great shape, and I was very grateful for that response.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4726893/barry-manilow-on-husband/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4726893/barry-manilow-on-husband/"},"headline":"Barry Manilow Opens Up About Marrying Husband Garry Kief for the First Time: 'I'm Proud of It'","datePublished":"2017-04-05T17:43:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:34.523Z","description":"\"This is my life, we've been together for all these years\"","url":"https://time.com/4726893/barry-manilow-on-husband/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4726893/barry-manilow-on-husband/","name":"Barry Manilow Opens Up About Marrying Husband Garry Kief for the First Time: 'I'm Proud of It'"}}]}] ```