Patti Austin - Full Concert [HD] | Live at North Sea Jazz Festival 2003

Patti Austin (born August 10, 1950) is an American R&B, soul and jazz singer. Patti Austin was discovered at the age of 4 by producer Quincy Jones during a record production by her godmother Dinah Washington, with her father Gordon Austin playing trombone. Jones accepted a voluntary role as godfather and encouraged her career. At the age of five, she performed for the first time at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. At the age of nine she belonged to the touring group of the blues opera Free and Easy and performed in Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris in 1959 and 1960. At the age of 16, she won the Song Contest in Rio de Janeiro. During the 1960s and 1970s, she toured as a backing vocalist with artists such as Sammy Davis Jr., Harry Belafonte, and Roberta Flack. She was also asked as a studio singer. She can be heard on the albums Foreigner (1973) by Cat Stevens, Stingray (1976) by Joe Cocker and Futures (1977) by Burt Bacharach. Austin's own solo recordings, meanwhile, flopped. Only with the single The Family Tree (1969) did she manage to achieve an appreciation success in the American charts (46th place). She received further attention through the recordings for Creed Taylor's CTI Records, where she released four albums. With Say You Love (1977), We're in Love (1978) and Body Language (1980), a composition by Isaac Hayes, she had further minor R&B hits. She also sang the pop duet It's the Falling in Love (1979) with Michael Jackson, which was published on his album Off the Wall, which sold millions of copies. A further duet with George Benson and significantly jazzier, was sold millions of times in the following year as part of his album Give Me the Night. Further attention and finally the breakthrough in the R&B charts brought Austin's collaboration on Quincy Jone's album The Dude (1981). The single Razzamatazz managed to jump into the top 20 of the R&B chart. Her final breakthrough was the duet Baby Come to Me with James Ingram. The song was played in the series General Hospital and therefore received special attention. At the beginning of 1983, the song placed itself in the top position in the American singles chart. Also in duet with James Ingram followed the song How Do You Keep The Music Playing (1983). Jones had signed Austin to his Qwest label for these recordings. Here she released four large-scale produced albums until the end of the decade. Other significantly smaller hits were Do You Love Me (1981), It's going to Be Special (1984, from the soundtrack of Two of a Kind), Honey For the Bees (1985, cover of an Alison Moyet song) and The Heat of Heat (1986). With the highly acclaimed but unsuccessful album The Real Me, which contained standards such as Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and True Love, Austin's collaboration with Qwest ended. In 1989 she was involved in the anniversary album for the cartoon series Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown!.

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