Where is patrice rushen

Dining and Drinking. Camino Riviera and The Waverly: Two new restaurants, two new cuisines, one chef. US urges citizens to leave Haiti amid deepening turmoil. Former Janet Jackson music director Patrice Rushen was barely 20 when she recorded her major label debut album in with such jazz heavyweights as saxophonist Joe Henderson and trumpeter Oscar Brashear. In the years since then, this versatile keyboardist and singer has recorded at least a dozen more albums under her own name.

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We became good friends, aside from the professional side. When they hear it, it sparks. I want my music to convey something that speaks to people. You just give them the space and empower them to give you their best. However, more than those kinds of accolades at the time, Straight From the Heart became one of those classic albums that spark instant nostalgia, a marker for a time, place and style of music and culture that continues to resonate with listeners almost 40 years later.

Rushen has worked as a musical director for Janet Jackson and broke the gender barrier when she directed the first of several Grammy ceremonies. Also an educator, Rushen eventually became chair of the popular music program at USC, where she studied as a youngster. During , the prodigy's last year at Locke High School, she made her first recorded appearance through the release of her senior farewell concert with Msingi Workshop, which showcased her as a soloist, arranger, and composer.

The same year, she won a solo competition at the Monterey Jazz Festival and subsequently signed a deal with Prestige.

Blooming as a vocalist with her own engaging fusion of jazz, soul, and funk, she expanded her audience with Patrice , Pizzazz , Posh , Straight from the Heart , and Now From the mid-'80s onward, Rushen 's solo recordings have been relatively sporadic as she has concentrated on education, film and television work, and musical direction for programs and artists, including the Emmy Awards, the NAACP Image Awards, and Janet Jackson 's Janet.

After one-album deals with Arista and Sin-Drome, plus two LPs recorded as a member of the Meeting , Rushen returned to solo prominence on the Discovery label with Signature , nominated for a Grammy in the Best Contemporary Jazz Performance category.

The following decade, in , she became the first woman to serve as musical director for the Grammy Awards, and continued with the and ceremonies. She did sessions and composed all the while, lending her talent to releases by Lee Ritenour , Stanley Clarke , Lenny White , Wallace Roney , and Carmen Lundy , and writing numerous symphonic works.

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