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Patti Austin (born August 10, 1950) is an American R&B, pop, and jazz singer and songwriter.

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Patti Austin
Austin in 2000
Background information
Born	(1950-08-10) August 10, 1950 (age 72) Harlem, New York, U.S.
Genres	R&B, pop, jazz
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter
Years active	1955–present
Labels	CTI, Qwest, GRP, Shanachie
Website	pattiaustin.com

Music career

Austin was born in Harlem, New York, to Gordon Austin, a jazz trombonist.[1] She was raised in Bay Shore, New York on Long Island.[2] Quincy Jones and Dinah Washington have referred to themselves as her godparents.[3][4]

When Austin was four years old, she performed at the Apollo Theater.[4] As a teenager she recorded commercial jingles and worked as a session singer in soul and R&B.[4] She had an R&B hit in 1969 with "Family Tree".[4] She sang backing vocals on Paul Simon's 1975 number-one hit "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover". The jazz label CTI released her debut album, End of a Rainbow, in 1976.[5] She sang "The Closer I Get to You" for Tom Browne's album Browne Sugar, a duet with Michael Jackson for his album Off the Wall, and a duet with George Benson on "Moody's Mood for Love".[5]

After singing on Quincy Jones's album The Dude, she signed a contract with his record label, Qwest, which released Every Home Should Have One with "Baby, Come to Me", a duet with James Ingram that became a No. 1 hit on the Billboard magazine pop chart.[5] A second duet with Ingram, "How Do You Keep the Music Playing", appeared on soundtrack to the film Best Friends (1982). Her final album for Qwest, The Real Me contained versions of jazz standards. Austin moved on to [5] GRP for four releases, including Love Is Gonna Getcha, which contained the singles "Good in Love" and "Through the Test of Time".[5]

Austin was booked for United Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, but because her mother suffered a stroke days before, she cancelled her ticket and flew at a different time.[6]

In 2003, she collaborated with Frances Yip on Papillon III in the rotunda of San Francisco City Hall to help the Jade Ribbon Campaign of Stanford University. A companion CD/DVD was released with Austin and Yip singing duets in Mandarin.[7]

A performance in 2000 with the Germany-based WDR Big Band[4] led to later recordings with the Germany-based ensemble that yielded two of Austin's six Grammy nominations:[8] For Ella (2002) was a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald.[4][5] A 2007 release with the band and arranger Michael Abene, Avant Gershwin, earned her the trophy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance.

During a 2007 interview, Austin spoke of reluctantly attending as a teenager one of Judy Garland's last concerts and how the experience helped focus her career. "She ripped my heart out. I wanted to interpret a lyric like that, to present who I was at the moment through the lyric."[9]

In 2011, Sound Advice was released containing cover versions of Bob Dylan's "Gotta Serve Somebody", Brenda Russell's "A Little Bit of Love", the Jackson Five's "Give It Up", Bill Withers' "Lean on Me", and Don McLean's "Vincent". The album also included "The Grace of God", a song Austin wrote after watching an episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show which included a woman with scarred face. Austin appeared in the documentary film 20 Feet from Stardom, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released on 21 June 2013.

In 2015, Austin appeared on Patrick Williams' Home Suite Home large jazz ensemble album, as vocalist for Williams' composition "52nd & Broadway," which won a Grammy for Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals.[10]

Awards and honors

• Grammy Award, Best Jazz Vocal Album, Avant Gershwin, 2008[11]
• Honorary doctorate, Berklee College of Music[12]

Discography

Studio albums

Year	Album	Chart positions				Record label
		US [13]	US R&B [13]	US Jazz [13]	UK [14]
1976	End of a Rainbow	—	—	31	—	CTI
1977	Havana Candy	116	—	—	—
1980	Body Language	—	62	28	—
1981	Every Home Should Have One	36	16	9	99	Qwest
1984	Patti Austin	87	—	—	—
1985	Gettin' Away with Murder	182	25	—	—
1988	The Real Me	—	56	7	—
1990	Love Is Gonna Getcha	93	45	4	—	GRP
1991	Carry On	—	75	13	—
1994	That Secret Place	—	—	12	—
1996	Jukebox Dreams (Japan only)	—	—	—	—	Pony Canyon
1998	In & Out of Love	—	—	—	—	Concord
1999	Street of Dreams	—	—	—	—	Intersound / Platinum
2001	On the Way to Love	—	—	21	—	Warner Bros.
2002	For Ella	—	—	7	—	Playboy Jazz / Concord
2003	"Papillon" featuring Patti Austin and Frances Yip	—	—	—	—	Independence Label
2007	Avant Gershwin	—	—	5	—	Rendezvous
2011	Sound Advice	—	—	15	—	Shanachie
2016	Mighty Musical Fairy Tales	—	—	—	—	Let's Roar
"—" denotes the album failed to chart and/or was not released in that territory

Live albums

Year	Album	Chart positions			Record label
		US [13]	US R&B [13]	US Jazz [13]
1979	Live at the Bottom Line	—	—	33	CTI
1992	Live	—	—	20	GRP
2017	Ella and Louis	—	—	—	ABC Jazz
"—" denotes the album failed to chart and/or was not released in that territory

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions					Album
		US R&B [13]	US Hot 100 [13]	US A.C [13]	US Dance [13]	UK [14][15]
1965	"I Wanna Be Loved" / "A Most Unusual Boy"	—	—	—	—	—	(Coral 45 #62471)
1966	"Take Away the Pain Stain"	—	—	—	—	—	(Coral 45 #62491)
1969	"The Family Tree"	46	—	—	—	—	(United Artists 45 #50520)
1971	"Black California"	—	—	—	—	—	(Columbia 45 #45410)
1972	"Day by Day"	—	—	—	—	—	(Columbia 45 #45592)
1977	"Say You Love Me"	63	—	—	—	—	End of a Rainbow
1978	"Love, I Never Had It So Good"	60	—	—	—	—	Sounds...and Stuff Like That!!
	"We're in Love"	90	—	—	—	—	Havana Candy
1980	"Body Language"	45	—	—	—	—	Body Language
1981	"Do You Love Me?" / "The Genie"	24	—	—	1	76	Every Home Should Have One
	"Razzamatazz" (with Quincy Jones)	17	—	—	—	11	The Dude
	"Betcha Wouldn't Hurt Me" (with Quincy Jones)	—	—	—	—	52
	"Every Home Should Have One"	55	62	24	—	—	Every Home Should Have One
1982	"Baby, Come to Me" (with James Ingram)	9	1	1	—	11
1983	"How Do You Keep the Music Playing?" (with James Ingram)	6	45	5	—	—	Duets
	"In My Life"	92	—	—	—	—	In My Life
1984	"It's Gonna Be Special"	15	82	—	5	—	Patti Austin Two of a Kind original soundtrack
	"Rhythm of the Street"	33	—	—	11	96	Patti Austin
	"Shoot the Moon"	49	—	—	16	—
1985	"Honey for the Bees"	24	—	—	6	—	Gettin' Away with Murder
	"Gettin' Away with Murder"	72	—	—	—	—
	"Gimme, Gimme, Gimme" (with Narada Michael Walden)	39	106	—	—	87	The Nature of Things
1986	"The Heat of Heat"	13	55	—	14	76	Gettin' Away with Murder
1990	"Through the Test of Time"	60	—	9	—	—	Love Is Gonna Getcha
1991	"Givin' Into Love"	55	—	—	—	—	Carry On
1992	"I'll Keep Your Dreams Alive" (with George Benson)	—	—	—	—	68	Darlings Delight
1994	"Reach"	—	—	—	4	—	That Secret Place
"—" denotes the single failed to chart and/or was not released in that format

Filmography

Year	Film	Role
1978	The Wiz	The Wiz Singers Children's Choir / The Wiz Singers Adult Choir (voice)
1988	Tucker: The Man and his Dream	Millie
2013	20 Feet from Stardom	Herself

See also

• List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (U.S.)
• List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart

References

External links

• Official site
• Patti Austin from the CTI, Qwest and GRP Years at Webstarts

На других языках

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[de] Patti Austin

Patti Austin (* 10. August 1950 in New York City, New York) ist eine US-amerikanische Sängerin und Songschreiberin. Ihr seit den 1960er Jahren aufgebautes Repertoire spannt einen großen Bogen an Genres, von R&B und Soul bis hin zu Jazz und Pop. Sie ist darüber hinaus gelegentlich auch als Arrangeurin sowie Musikproduzentin in Erscheinung getreten. Ihr größter Hit, die Soulballade Baby, Come to Me, im Duett mit James Ingram, stand 1983 für zwei Wochen auf Platz eins der amerikanischen Single-Charts. Darüber hinaus platzierte sie 20 Hits in den R&B-Charts ihrer Heimat.[1] Nach sechs Grammy-Nominierungen ab 1981 gewann sie die Auszeichnung 2007 für Avant Gershwin.[2]

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- [en] Patti Austin

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[es] Patti Austin

Patti Austin (Harlem, New York, 10 de agosto de 1950) es una cantante de soul y quiet storm. Fue apadrinada por Dinah Washington y Sammy Davis Jr. Su sencillo, Baby, Come To Me, llegó a posicionarse en el primer lugar de Estados Unidos y entre los primeros 15 de Reino Unido.

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[ru] Остин, Патти

Па́тти О́стин (англ. Patti Austin; род. 10 августа 1950, Гарлем, Нью-Йорк, США) — американская певица в стилях джаз, фанк, соул, ритм-н-блюз и госпел, обладательница премии «Грэмми» в номинации «лучший джазовый вокал» за альбом Avant Gershwin (2008).

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