Patti Austin
Patti Austin (born
August 10 1948, in
Harlem New York) is an
R&B and
jazz music singer.
She made her debut at the
Apollo Theater at age four and had a contract with
RCA Records when she was only five.
Quincy Jones and
Dinah Washington have proclaimed themselves as her
godparents.
By the late
1960s Austin was a prolific
session musician and commercial
jingle singer. By the 1980s she was signed to Jones's
Qwest Records and she began having hits. She charted twenty R&B songs between
1969 and
1991 and had success on the
Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, where she hit
number one in
1981 with "Do You Love Me?" / "The Genie."
The album containing that hit,
Every Home Should Have One, also produced her biggest mainstream hit. "Baby, Come To Me," a duet with
James Ingram, peaked at number 73 on the
Hot 100 in early
1982. After being featured as the love theme in a prominent storyline on the
soap opera General Hospital, the song re-entered the pop chart in October and went to number one in early
1983.
Austin continued to have minor chart hits through the remainder of the 1980s, although no other singles reached the Hot 100 Top 40. She does not have chart hits today but she still produces new music.
Albums
* 1976:
End Of A Rainbow* 1977:
Havana Candy* 1979:
Live At The Bottom Line* 1980:
Body Language* 1981:
Every Home Should Have One* 1983:
In My Life* 1984:
Patti Austin* 1985:
Gettin' Away With Murder* 1988:
The Real Me* 1990:
Love Is Gonna Getcha* 1991:
Carry On* 1992:
Live* 1994:
That Secret Place* 1998:
In & Out Of Love* 1999:
Street Of Dreams* 2001:
On The Way To Love* 2002:
For EllaCompilations
* 1994:
The Best Of Patti Austin* 1995:
The Ultimate Collection* 2001:
The Very Best Of Patti Austin* 2002:
Collection* 2003:
Baby Come To Me And Other Hits* 2005:
Love Collection*
List of number-one hits (United States)*
List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (U.S.)*
List of Number 1 Dance Hits (United States)*
List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Dance chart{{Persondata
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