Αναμφισβήτητα μία από τις πιό χαρισματικές μαύρες γυναικείες φωνές. Γεννημένη το 1952 στο Cincinnati, μεγαλωμένη μέσα σε οικογένεια πολυμελή με ακούσματα μέσα από τα go(d)spel και τη jazz, γρήγορα ξεδίπλωσε το φωνητικό ταλέντο της.
Ηταν η χαρακτηριστική φωνή του καταπληκτικού χορευτικού soul συγκροτήματος των Crusaders το οποίο έγινε γνωστό στην Ελλάδα κυρίως με την μεγάλη χορευτική επιτυχία Street life!!
Μετά την διάλυση των Crusaders η Randy ακολούθησε μιά εξίσου επιτυχημένη solo καριέρα, τραγουδώντας περισσοτερο soul ballads δίνοντας μας κι άλλα μαύρα διαμάντια με την βαθειά αισθαντική φωνή της.
Τα υπόλοιπα τα αντιγράφω από την Wikipedia αυτούσια
Randy Crawford (born Veronica Crawford, February 18, 1952, in Macon, Georgia), is a jazz and R&B singer.
Early Life
Crawford grew up with five brothers and sisters in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her parents loved singing themselves and encouraged all their children to sing at home and in the church choir. Asked about early influences, Crawford told Vercelly, "Aretha Franklin was the only person who really touched me deeply as a child." She especially liked Franklin's early recordings made for the Columbia label before she became a star with Atlantic. By the time she was 15, Crawford was singing in night clubs in the United States and Europe with her father acting as her chaperon. Soon she learned to read music and play piano, performed in a group with bassist William "Bootsy" Collins, and later in a jazz band. When she was 20, she released her first single "If You Say the Word."
[edit] Career
Crawford first polished her craft at club gigs from Cincinnati to Saint-Tropez, but made her name in mid 1970s in New York, where she sang with jazzmen George Benson and Cannonball Adderley. Along the way she has rubbed elbows with Bootsy Collins, Johnny Bristol, Quincy Jones, Al Jarreau and others.
She then led R&B veterans The Crusaders on the t
ransatlantic big hit "Street Life" (1979). This song stayed atop the U.S. jazz chart for twenty weeks and has since become both a rare groove and disco classic, and appeared in commercials in the early 2000s. Her follow up solo efforts included "One Day I'll Fly Away" (1980, Grand Prize for Tokyo International Music Festival and UK #1); "You Might Need Somebody" (1981); and "Rainy Night in Georgia" (1981); which all became soul standards. The album, Secret Combination (1981) stayed on the Billboard album chart for sixty weeks, after which her profile dipped, despite a return to the Top Ten with "Almaz" in 1986.
Naked And True (1995) brought Crawford back to
her roots: it included Benson's "Give Me The Night", and confirmed her soul heritage by featuring Funkadelicists Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell and The Fred Wesley Horns. But she enjoyed her highest profile of the decade when rising starlet, Shola Ama, had a worldwide hit with her 1997 cover of "You Might Need Somebody".
Αφορμή για το μίνι αυτό αφιέρωμα μου έδωσε η καλή μου φίλη Μαριαλένα που αναφέρθηκε για την Veronica (Randy) Crawford σε σχετικό ποστάκι της, τής το αφιερώνω λοιπόν και μπορείτε να κατεβάσετε από τον μουσικοθεραπευτή ένα αντιπροσωπευτικό της best του 2000
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