Patti Austin

Patti Austin is an African American R&B and jazz music singer born August 10 1948 in Harlem New York. 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.

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African American - R&B - Jazz music - August 10 - 1948 - Harlem - New York - Apollo Theater - RCA Records - Quincy Jones - Dinah Washington - Godparent

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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 #1 in 1981 with "Do You Love Me?" / "The Genie."

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Jingle - Qwest Records - 1969 - 1991 - Hot Dance Music/Club Play - 1981

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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 #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 #1 in early 1983.

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James Ingram - Hot 100 - 1982 - Soap opera - General Hospital - 1983

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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.

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