Randy Crawford

Randy Crawford is a singer of Jazz and Soul American born on February 18th, 1952 with Macon, in the state of Georgia. It began its career while occurring in clubs, of Cincinnati to Saint-Tropez but it in the middle of the Années 1970 is that it was made a name while singing at the sides of large jazzmen like George Benson or Cannonball Adderley. Thereafter, it accompanied Bootsy Collins, Johnny Bristol, Quincy Jones, Al Jarreau and well of others.

It was then pointed out on the planetary tube of the veterans of R&B, the Crusaders, Street Life in 1979. This song dominated the charts Jazz during 20 weeks and became since traditional Rare groove and Disco. Its following titles One Day I' L Fly Away (1980), You Might Need Somebody (1981) and Rainy Night In Georgia (1981, begun again Brook Benton), will become all of the standards Soul. Its album Secret Combination (1981) remained in the charts Billboard during 60 weeks consecutive, after which its career fell down, in spite of a success in signal 10 with Almaz in 1986. Naked And True (1995) mark a return to its roots Drunk: it takes again there Give Me The Night of George Benson and the album counts the presence of the Funkadelic Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell and coppers of Fred Wesley. The singer knows a renewal of popularity in 1997, even if in an involuntary way since this same year, its tube with the Crusaders Street Life is included in the BO of the film Jackie Brown of Quentin Tarantino and the singer Shola Ama takes again with a considerable success her ballade You Might Need Somebody . In 2006, it records an album in duet with the pianist Joe Sample, Feeling Good , with which it turns for a series in concerts, with in particular some dates in France.

Discography

  • Everything Must Change (1976)

  • Miss Randy Crawford (1977)
  • Raw Silk (1979)
  • Now We May Begin (1980)
  • Secret Combination (1981)
  • Windsong (1982)
  • Nightline (1983)
  • Abstract Emotions (1986)
  • Rich and Poor (1989)
  • Through the Eyes off Coils (1992)
  • Don' T Say It' S Over (1993)
  • Naked and True (1995)
  • Every Kind off Mood: Randy, Randi, Randee (1997)
  • Permanent (2001)
  • Feeling Good (with Joe Sample) (2006)

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