A musician is an artist who writes, performs, or creates music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music.

An instrumentalist plays a musical instrument.

A multi-instrumentalist plays a diverse range of instruments such as different forms of percussion, plucked strings, vocals etc.

A singer is a vocalist.

Composers, songwriters and arrangers create musical compositions, songs and arrangements. These may be transcribed in music notation, performed or recorded.

A conductor leads a musical ensemble. A conductor can simultaneously act as an instrumentalist in the ensemble.

A recording artist creates recorded music, such as CDs and MP3 files.

There are many forms of musicians. From classical artist to rock artist. The spectrum is so diverse that there is no limitation to a musician's qualifications.

See also

American Federation of Musicians

External links

Category:Occupations in music

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: For the TV series character, see Stephanie Mills (All in the Family).

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name	Stephanie Mills
background	solo_singer
birth name	Stephanie Dorthea Mills
alias	Cookie
birth date	March 22, 1957
origin	Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
genre	R&B;, soul, gospel
occupation	Singer
years active	1968–present
label	Motown, 20th Century, Casablanca MCA, GospoCentric, LightYear, Expansion Records
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Stephanie Dorthea Mills (born March 22, 1957) is an American R&B; and soul singer, and a former Broadway star.

Career

Mills began her career appearing in her first play at the age of nine. Two years later, Mills won Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater a record six times. The victory led to her being cast in her first Broadway role, the orphaned child of a runaway slave in the musical Maggie Flynn.

In 1973, Mills' musical recording career was launched when she was signed to Paramount records by Michael Barbiero, and her first single "I Knew It Was Love" was released. She was later signed to Motown. Her first two albums there failed to generate a buzz as the label could not find Mills' sound and she left the label in 1976.

Mills' career took a rise when she portrayed Dorothy in an African American adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz entitled The Wiz, where she began dating Michael Jackson. Filled with a more urban style of music and scenery, The Wiz made Mills a star particularly because of her stellar performance of the song "Home." It would become her signature tune for years, and would be covered later by Diana Ross for the big-screen adaptation three years later and by Whitney Houston for her dramatic musical performance debut on TV in the early 1980s.

Musical success was elusive until 1979, when signed under the 20th Century Fox Records record label, Mills found her breakthrough in disco music, recording songs such as "Put Your Body In It," "You Can Get Over," and "What Cha' Gonna Do With My Lovin'." The resulting album, What Cha' Gonna Do with My Lovin', was Mills' first gold record.

She quickly followed the success with 1980's Sweet Sensation, which featured Mills' biggest hit to date, the Reggie Lucas-produced "Never Knew Love Like This Before". The single became a #12 R&B; and #6 Pop hit in 1980, as well as reaching #4 in the UK Singles Chart. 1981's Stephanie featured a top hit for her and Teddy Pendergrass entitled "Two Hearts," while her 1983 album, Merciless, featured her hit cover of Prince's "How Come You Don't Call Me Anymore?", as well as the #3 dance chart hit "Pilot Error", which was her first dance hit in the U.S. In 1984, Mills had her third UK hit with "The Medicine Song" (#29), but that both marriages had ended in less than two years. "I also wanted to know why my relationships never made it to two years. I knew it was me," says Mills. "You can't blame it on another person. That's where a lot of women go wrong... carrying over from a bad relationship to a new relationship."

Mills married a third time to Charlotte, North Carolina radio program manager Michael Saunders in 1993 in a wedding ceremony performed by Minister Louis Farrakhan. The couple divorced sometime later.

In an interview with Soul Music in 2002, Mills said that she had a son, Farad. Mills would not comment on the identity of Farad’s father, other than to say that she is not married, and that her ex-husband Michael Saunders is not Farad's father. Mills added that giving birth “was the best thing I’ve ever done. It was amazingly wonderful and I wish I had started earlier. I might have had two or three before but I had some problems before in being able to have children. But things work out when they’re supposed to... now I’m a single working parent and loving it!"

In an interview with Windy City Times in 2010, Mills said that she presently makes her home in Charlotte, North Carolina and that her son, Farad has Down's Syndrome. "The Shriners are celebrating their 88th anniversary, and they have 22 hospitals nationwide," says Mills. "And what I love is even my son — I have a child with Down's syndrome — can get access to the best spinal-cord doctors in the country."

Discography

Movin' in the Right Direction – 1974

For the First Time – 1975

What Cha' Gonna Do with My Lovin' – 1979

Sweet Sensation – 1980

Stephanie – 1981

Tantalizingly Hot – 1982

Merciless – 1983

I've Got the Cure – 1984

Stephanie Mills – 1985

If I Were Your Woman – 1987

Home – 1989

Christmas – 1991

Something Real – 1992

Personal Inspirations – 1995

Born for This! – 2004

Breathless – 2010

Awards

1974 – nominated for Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress - Musical ("The Wiz").

1979 – nominated for American Music Award: Favorite Female Artist - Soul / Rhythm & Blues.

1980 – won Grammy Award: Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female ("Never Knew Love Like This Before").

1980 – nominated for an American Music Award: Favorite Female Artist - Soul / Rhythm & Blues

1980 – nominated for Young Artist Awards: Best Young Musical Recording Artist - Female ("Two Hearts").

1981 – nominated for a Grammy Award: Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female (Stephanie).

1981 – won American Music Award for Favorite Female Artist - Soul / Rhythm & Blues

1983 – nominated for a Grammy Award: Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female ("Merciless").

1989 – nominated for American Music Award: Favorite Female Artist - Soul / Rhythm & Blues

See also

List of number-one dance hits (United States)

List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart

References

External links

Stephanie Mills official website

Stephanie Mills at Wenig-LaMonica Associates

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name	Rosie Gaines
background	solo_singer
origin	United States
genre	Funk-rock, funk, pop, R&B;, soul, dance pop, dance, hip hop
years active	1985–present
label	Dredlix, Motown, NPG, Epic, Dome, SUsu
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Rosie Gaines is an American vocalist, musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer from Pittsburg, California. She released a number of dance hits, the most notable being "Closer Than Close".

Ensemble career

Gaines' first band was a family funk/soul group called Unity, with Gaines on organ, her brother Carl on bass guitar, her cousin Lacy on guitar, sister-in-law Dianne on background vocals and her sister Mal on drums.

Gaines also played in a band called The Oasis and A Touch of Class before joining The Curtis Ohlson Band (with Levi Seacer, Jr. on guitar). Seacer called Gaines one day and asked her to come to Minneapolis, Minnesota to sing a demo of a song for The Pointer Sisters.

With Prince

While she was doing the demo, Prince came in the recording studio, was impressed by her abilities and asked her to join his band The New Power Generation. Gaines was introduced in 1990 as the new vocalist and keyboard player on Prince's Nude Tour. Her first appearance on a Prince album was on Graffiti Bridge. She was also a member of The NPG in the film Graffiti Bridge. She performed and wrote on the Diamonds and Pearls album. In 1992, after the Diamonds and Pearls tour, Gaines returned to her solo career, although she continued to work with Prince.

She duetted with Prince on the live version of "Nothing Compares 2 U", available on his 1993 compilation album, The Hits/The B-Sides.

Solo career

Gaines started recording her debut solo album. Several albums worth of material were recorded, and the album was set for release on Paisley Park Records. It was never released because of a legal battle between Prince and Warner Bros. Records.

Gaines eventually released her third album on Motown Records. It opened with "I Want U" and also includes "My Tender Heart" (composed by Gaines and Prince), which she performed on The Ryde Dyvine TV special in late 1992.

In 1995, Gaines released the album Closer Than Close. A remix single of the title song was released two years later. The song peaked at #4 in the UK Singles Chart, and became a club favorite. Also in 1995 Gaines collaborated with Tevin Campbell on the song "I2I" featured in the hit Disney movie A Goofy Movie.

With her own record label, Dredlix Records, Gaines strove to bring her music directly via the Internet. In 1997 she released an internet-only album, Arrival. Limited to 2,000 copies, it was available exclusively through her official website.

In 2003, she released her album You Gave Me Freedom through Dome Records in the UK. In 2005 Gaines provided her vocals for "Dance With Me" recorded by K-Klass and released on SUSU Records label in July 2005.

Gaines released her album, Welcome To My World, for SUSU Records in November 2006.

Album discography

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References

External links

Rosie Gaines' Official website

Rosie Gaines' Official MySpace Page

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name	Patti LaBelle
background	solo_singer
birth name	Patricia Louise Holt
birth date	May 24, 1944
origin	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
alias	Patricia Edwards
genre	R&B;, pop, soft rock
occupation	Singer-songwriter, actress
years active	1958–present
label	Epic (1977-1980)Philadelphia Int'l (1981-1984)MCA (1984-2001) Def Soul Classics (2003-2005, 2007-present)Umbrella / Bungalo (2006)
associated acts	Labelle, Michael McDonald
website	}}

Patricia Louise Holt Edwards (born May 24, 1944), better known under the stage name, Patti LaBelle, is an American singer, author and actress. LaBelle spent sixteen years as lead singer of Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, who changed their name to Labelle in the early 1970s and released the disco song, "Lady Marmalade".

LaBelle started her solo career shortly after the group disbanded in 1977 and crossed over to pop music with "On My Own", "If Only You Knew", "If You Asked Me To", "Stir It Up" and "New Attitude". She has also recorded R&B; ballads such as "You Are My Friend" and "Love, Need and Want You".

Biography

Early years

Patricia Louise Holt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 24, 1944. Her father, Henry Holt, was a railroad worker and lounge singer. Her mother, Bertha Holt, was a domestic and housewife. Holt was one of four daughters (Vivian, Barbara, Patricia and Jacqueline). Holt recalls having a happy childhood but said being sexually molested at the age of seven led her to be shy and withdrawn. Holt's parents had an unhappy marriage. When Holt was twelve, her parents split up and Bertha Holt raised her daughters as a single mother. Holt's mother later adopted Claudette Grant, who would become one of Holt's closest friends.

Despite her shyness, Holt was known for her gifted voice even as a child. After first joining her church choir at ten, she sung her first solo at the Beulah Baptist Church at the age of twelve. Growing up, Holt listened not only to gospel, but jazz and rhythm and blues. By her teens, "Patsy", as friends and family called her, also began listening to doo-wop and was encouraged to form a girl group in the late fifties. In 1958, she formed The Ordettes with three other friends. The following year, when two members of the group dropped out, singers Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash, from a former rival group, joined them. Eventually with Cindy Birdsong included in the lineup by 1961 and with respected music impresario Bernard Montague managing them, the group gained a reputation around Philadelphia and soon caught the eye of a record scout, who introduced them to Newtown Records president Harold Robinson.

After hearing Holt's voice during an audition, Robinson, who nearly ditched the group due to their looks - he allegedly thought Holt was "too plain and dark" to lead a singing group, agreed to sign the group, renaming them The Blue Belles (the name would simply be The Bluebelles by the mid-1960s), after a Newtown subsidiary label.

Early career

Not long after signing, the group was credited for the hit single, "I Sold My Heart to the Junkman", though the song was recorded by another girl group, the Chicago-based The Starlets. This led to a lawsuit by a manager of the group and its record label boss, later resulting in the group winning $5,000 in damages. "I Sold My Heart to the Junkman" eventually reached the Billboard top 20. Despite this credited success, the group could not follow up with any other hit. The Blue Belles supported themselves by constantly touring including an appearance at the Apollo Theater.

In 1963, a record label executive sued Harold Robinson for use of the name Blue Belles, since another group was using the name. As a result, Robinson gave Holt the nickname, Patti La Belle (La Belle is French for "the beautiful one") and the group's name was altered to Patti La Belle And Her Blue Belles. A year later, the group left Newtown switching over to Cameo-Parkway Records. Their first hit for Cameo-Parkway was the top 40 hit, "Down the Aisle (The Wedding Song)". Their follow-ups included "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "Danny Boy".

In 1965, Atlantic Records president Ahmet Ertegun signed the group to the label, working with the group for a year. The group issued their first studio album (as Patti LaBelle and The Bluebelles) titled Somewhere Over the Rainbow in 1966. While they had a modest pop charted hit with "All or Nothing" and its b-side, a pop cover of Judy Garland's "Over The Rainbow", the group was not as successful as the label predicted. In 1967, their second release, Dreamer, issued two singles, "Take Me For A Little While" and the Curtis Mayfield standard, "I'm Still Waiting". In the middle of touring for that album, Cindy Birdsong suddenly left the group to join The Supremes after replacing Florence Ballard. The remaining trio of LaBelle, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash struggled with subsequent recordings and by 1970, Atlantic had dropped the group from its roster, as had longtime manager Bernard Montague, who had by now focused his full energy on more successful Philly groups such as The Delfonics and The Stylistics.

After almost signing a management deal with Frankie Crocker and Herb Hamlett, the group settled on British manager Vicki Wickham (producer of the UK pop show, Ready, Steady, Go!) after Dusty Springfield had mentioned signing them. Wickham advised the group to perform in London and work on a brand new image and sound. LaBelle would later have disagreements with Wickham over changes often saying in interviews that she liked things the way they were. This led to some musical disagreements between LaBelle and Nona Hendryx.

Labelle

In late 1970, the group returned to the U.S. changing their name to Labelle and signing a contract with Warner Bros imprint, Track Records. Wickham then had the group open for rock group The Who. In mid-1971, the group released their Warner debut, Labelle. The record mixed harder-edged soul music with rock music elements, a marked departure from the pop sound of the Blue Belles. The album failed to catch on, as did their 1972 follow-up, Moon Shadow. The group, however, did find success singing alongside Laura Nyro on her acclaimed album, Gonna Take a Miracle. The group would tour with Nyro off and on for the next couple of years.

In 1973, Wickham had the group signed to RCA Records, where they recorded the Pressure Cookin' album. In the middle of recording, LaBelle gave birth to her only child, Zuri. While promoting the album opening for The Rolling Stones, Wickham advised the group to adapt the same flamboyant costumes of rock artists such as T. Rex, Elton John and David Bowie. Soon, their own stage entrances started to take a life on its own, at one point the group members flew into the concert stage, while singing. Despite this change in direction, their third album failed to become a success. However, a scout for Epic Records advised the group to sign with them in 1974 at the end of the Rolling Stones tour.

Later that year, Labelle issued their most acclaimed album, Nightbirds. In October 1974, the group made history by becoming the first pop group to perform at the Metropolitan Opera House. In late December, Epic issued the single, "Lady Marmalade". Within six months, the record became a smash and reached number-one on the Billboard Hot 100, the group's first to do so. This helped their album sell over a million copies. Their fame was so massive during this time that they made the cover of Rolling Stone later in 1975.

Later in 1975, the group issued their follow-up, Phoenix, which did not quite catch on as fast though it was critically raved. They had a little more success with the Chameleon album in 1976, with the songs, "Get You Somebody New" and "Isn't It A Shame", the latter song Patti LaBelle would say was "the last record we ever did together". Despite her success, LaBelle was not pleased at the group's direction and by late 1976, neither LaBelle, Dash and Hendryx could agree on a musical direction. Following a concert in Baltimore in December 1976, LaBelle advised the others to break up. LaBelle began having anxiety attacks following the group's split and was arguing constantly with her husband at the time. After seeing a shrink for psychological evaluation, LaBelle began to let her husband manage her affairs as she reluctantly soldiered on with a solo career.

Solo career

LaBelle released her self-titled album in 1977 on Epic. The record was a critical success, with the highlights being the dance singles, "Joy To Have Your Love" and "Dan Swit Me" and the pop-R&B; ballad, "You Are My Friend", a song she and her husband co-wrote. Her subsequent follow-ups, however, 1978's Tasty, 1979's It's Alright with Me and 1980's Released, failed to be as successful. Though well-established in some circles, LaBelle never follow her live performance success with hit records, which was often the case with the Bluebelles. In 1981, she was switched to the CBS subsidiary, Philadelphia International Records, issuing the album, The Spirit's In It. That record also proved to be unsuccessful.

LaBelle found success outside music, performing in the Broadway revival of Your Arm's Too Short to Box with God, with Al Green. However, the play was criticized mainly because of what critics felt was vocal showboating by Green and LaBelle, criticism that LaBelle did not take lightly. In 1982, she recorded the Grover Washington ballad, "The Best Is Yet To Come", which led to her first top 20 R&B; hit and her first Grammy nomination in the spring of 1983. Later that year, LaBelle appeared in the PBS-produced play, Working. In October 1983, the mid-tempo love song, "If Only You Knew", was released. The parent album, I'm In Love Again, was released the following month. In January 1984, "If Only You Knew" reached number-one on the Hot R&B; Singles chart, where it stayed for four weeks. The song became LaBelle's first charted hit on the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist, reaching the lower regions of the top fifty, peaking at number 46. The success of that single and its similar-sounding follow-up, "Love, Need and Want You", which reached number ten on the R&B; chart, helped I'm in Love Again, reached gold in the U.S.

Later in 1984, LaBelle appeared in her first film, A Soldier's Story. Her appearance in the film later led to Steven Spielberg handpicking her for the role of Shug Avery on The Color Purple, but she turned it down due to hearing that there was a nude scene and same-sex kissing. LaBelle would later regret her decision to turn down the role, after Margaret Avery won an Academy Award nomination for her role as Shug. In the fall of 1984, LaBelle recorded the songs, "New Attitude" and "Stir It Up", later issued for the soundtrack of Beverly Hills Cop, released in December 1984. The soundtrack became a hit, thanks to the releases of "New Attitude" and "Stir It Up". The former single reached as high as number seventeen on the Hot 100 and was number-one on the Hot Dance Club Songs chart in the spring of 1985, introducing LaBelle to pop audiences. In 1985, LaBelle left Philadelphia International signing a lucrative contract with MCA. PIR issued the final contractual LaBelle album, Patti. The album was not successful.

LaBelle garnered headlines in 1985 for her showstopping, and some say, purposely show-stealing performances, first at Motown Returns to the Apollo engaging in the so-called "infamous mic toss" between her and Diana Ross during the show's finale, to the Foreigner song, "I Want to Know What Love Is". LaBelle later alleged that Ross grabbed the microphone away from LaBelle following her taking over the lead, though someone else gave LaBelle another microphone where she finished singing. That same year, LaBelle was accused again of showboating, after singing in the finale of Live Aid to "We Are the World" so loud that she sounded as the only audible singer. Due to this press, she was given her own television special later that fall. In 1986, LaBelle released her eighth album, Winner in You, which peaked at number-one on the Billboard 200 on the strength of the pop hit, "On My Own", a duet with singer Michael McDonald. The song became LaBelle's first number-one hit since "Lady Marmalade". Winner in You eventually sold a million copies, becoming platinum. It remains her best-selling album. LaBelle took a break in 1988, re-emerging with Be Yourself, in 1989. The album failed to match the success of Winner in You though it eventually went gold thanks to LaBelle's soft rock ballad, "If You Asked Me To".

Her 1991 album, Burnin', resulted in LaBelle's first Grammy win for Best Female R&B; Vocal Performance, and spawned three top ten hits on Billboard's R&B; chart also selling half a million copies becoming her third gold album. Her 1994 album, Gems and 1997 follow-up, Flame, also were certified gold and LaBelle's 1990s singles, "The Right Kinda Lover" and "When You Talk About Love" hit number-one on the dance charts. She won a second Grammy in 1998 for her live album, For One Night Only! Following the announcement of the end of her marriage to her husband, Armstead Edwards, who also dismissed himself as LaBelle's manager after more than 20 years, LaBelle released the ballad-heavy When A Woman Loves album in 2000. The album became her first since 1985's Patti to not be certified gold due to poor response to its one single, "Call Me Gone". LaBelle would not release another album until, after signing with the Def Jam Records imprint, Def Soul Classics, she released Timeless Journey, in 2004. The album became her highest-charted album in eighteen years though it also failed to become a success. The 2005 follow-up, Classic Moments, was another flop, and LaBelle abruptly left Def Jam Records in 2006 over a public dispute with Antonio "L.A." Reid. She released her first gospel album, The Gospel According to Patti LaBelle, on the Bungalo label. She returned to Def Jam in 2007 and released her second holiday album, Miss Patti's Christmas, which barely charted. As of 2011, LaBelle has yet to release a new solo album. In 2008, LaBelle briefly reunited with Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash as Labelle on the group's first new album in over thirty years, Back to Now.

Following her roles in A Soldier's Story and Sing, LaBelle won a recurring role as Kadeem Hardison's mother on the hit show, A Different World. In 1992, following her success on the sitcom and responding to the success of rapper Will Smith's Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, LaBelle starred in her own sitcom, Out All Night. The show was cancelled after only 19 episodes. In 1993, she earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and two years afterwards, performed at the Super Bowl half time show. For a period, LaBelle's theme song for The Oprah Winfrey Show, titled "Get With the Program", proved to be popular along with its catchphrase. In 2003, she starred in her own lifestyle show, Livin' It Up With Patti LaBelle, which aired for three years on the TV-One channel. In 1996, LaBelle issued her autobiography, Don't Block the Blessings. She released her first of five cookbooks in 1997, and in 2006, released the book, Patti's Pearls. In addition, LaBelle began to sell collections of spices, lipstick and even wigs on her website. Her "Patti Labelle"wig collection,-featured in Especially Yours wig catalogs-, discontinued in 2010.

On September 14, 2010, LaBelle made a return two decades after her last Broadway performance to star in the award-winning musical Fela! about Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. LaBelle replaced Tony Award-nominee Lillias White as Fela's mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, and remained with the production through the end of its run on January 2, 2011.

On May 23, 2011, LaBelle appeared on "Oprah's Farewell Spectacular, Part 1” the first show in a series of three shows constituting the finale of The Oprah Winfrey Show, singing "Over the Rainbow" with Josh Groban.

LaBelle was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BET Awards on June 26, 2011.

Personal life

A longtime resident of Philadelphia, LaBelle currently lives in the Philly suburb, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. In 1969, she married Armstead Edwards. In July 1973, their first and only child, Zuri Kye Edwards, was born. In the late 1970s, Labelle and Edwards adopted Stanley and Todd, the children of their next-door neighbor, after their mother died of cancer. Following the death of her youngest sister Jackie Padgett, Labelle raised Padgett's teenage children. Following the disbanding of the group Labelle in 1976, Edwards, who was a schoolteacher, took over as his wife's manager. In 2000, the couple announced their separation. Their divorce was finalized in 2001. LaBelle's son Zuri has since taken over as her manager.

Her youngest sister Jackie Padgett became president of her sister's fan club in the early 1980s. When Jackie later died of lung cancer in 1989, LaBelle dedicated her 1991 album, Burnin', to Padgett and filmed the video for "If You Asked Me To" a day after her funeral. Her two other sisters, Vivian and Barbara preceded Jackie in death, dying of cancer themselves. LaBelle was diagnosed with diabetes in 1992. Prior to her marriage to Edwards, LaBelle was once engaged to Temptations singer Otis Williams breaking it off due to conflicting schedules.

In June 2011 a West Point cadet filed civil suit against LaBelle after he was allegedly assaulted by her bodyguards at Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston in March. Houston police department is reviewing the conduct of officers responding to the incident after they posed for photographs with the singer, but also filed assault charges against members of her entourage and warrants were issued.

Discography

See also

List of number-one dance hits (United States)

List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart

Selective awards and recognition

Grammy history

{| class=wikitable |- | colspan=5 align=center | Patti LaBelle Grammy Award History |- ! Year ! Category ! Title ! Genre ! Result |- align=center | rowspan="1"|2004 | Best Traditional R&B; Vocal Performance | "New Day" | R&B; | Nominee |- align=center | rowspan="1"|2003 | Best Traditional R&B; Vocal Performance | "Way Up There" | R&B; | Nominee |- align=center | rowspan="1"|2003 | Grammy Hall of Fame | "Lady Marmalade" | R&B; | Inducted |- align=center | rowspan="1"|1998 | Traditional R&B; Vocal Performance | Live! One Night Only | R&B; | Winner |- align=center | rowspan="2"|1997 | Best Female R&B; Vocal Performance | "When You Talk About Love" | R&B; | Nominee |- align="center" | Best R&B; Album | Flame | R&B; | Nominee |- align=center | rowspan="1"|1993 | Best Female R&B; Vocal Performance | "All Right Now (live)" | R&B; | Nominee |- align=center | rowspan="2"|1991 | Best R&B; Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group | "Superwoman" (with Gladys Knight & Dionne Warwick) | R&B; | Nominee |- align=center | Best Female R&B; Vocal Performance | Burnin' | R&B; | Winner |- align=center | rowspan="1"|1990 | Best Female R&B; Vocal Performance | "I Can't Complain" | R&B; | Nominee |- align=center | rowspan="2"|1986 | Best Female R&B; Vocal Performance | Winner in You | R&B; | Nominee |- align=center | Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group | "On My Own" (with Michael McDonald) | Pop | Nominee |- align=center | rowspan="1"|1985 | Best Female R&B; Vocal Performance | "New Attitude" | R&B; | Nominee |- align=center | rowspan="1"|1983 | Best Female R&B; Vocal Performance | "The Best Is Yet to Come" | R&B; | Nominee |- align=center |}

Other Awards

{| class=wikitable |- | colspan=5 align=center | Patti LaBelle Awards |- ! Year ! Category ! Title ! Result ! Notes |- align=center | 2011 | Lifetime Achievement Award | BET Awards | Winner |- align=center | 2009 | Legends Hall of Fame | Apollo Theater | Winner |- align=center | 2009 | UNCF Award of Excellence | UNCF Evening of Stars | Winner |- align=center | 2008 | Legend Award | World Music Awards | Winner |- align=center | 2006 | Outstanding Actress - Television, Movie, Miniseries or Dramatic Special | NAACP Image Awards | Winner | Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy |- align=center | 2006 | Outstanding Gospel Artist | NAACP Image Awards | Nominee |- align=center | 2004 | Outstanding Female Artist | NAACP Image Awards | Nominee |- align=center | 2003 | Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award | Songwriter's Hall of Fame | Winner |- align=center | 2001 | Walk of Fame Award | BET Walk of Fame | Winner |- align=center | 2001 | Lena Horne Lifetime Achievement Award | Lady of Soul Awards | Winner |- align=center | 1998 | Triumphant Spirit Award - Career Achievement | The Essence Awards | Winner |- align=center | 1998 | Outstanding Performance - Variety Series/Special | NAACP Image Awards | Winner | Live! One Night Only |- align=center | 1996 | Outstanding Performance - Variety Series/Special | NAACP Image Awards | Winner | The Essence Awards |- align=center | 1995 | Heritage Award - Career Achievement | Soul Train Music Awards | Winner |- align=center | 1992 | Favorite Soul/R&B; Female Artist | American Music Awards | Winner |- align=center | 1986 | Favorite Soul/R&B; Female Artist | American Music Awards | Nominee |- align=center | 1986 | Outstanding Individual Performance, Variety or Music Program | Emmy Awards | Nominee | Sylvia Fine Kaye's Musical Comedy Tonight III |- align=center |}

Tours

1985: Look To The Rainbow Tour

1986-1987: Winner In You Tour

1991: Burnin' Tour

1995: Gems Tour

1997-1998: Flame Tour

2000: When a Woman Loves Tour

2005: Timeless Journey Tour

2006: Classic Moments Tour

2008: Divas with Heart Tour (w/Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight and Diana Ross)

2008/2009: Back to Now Tour (w/Labelle)

Filmography

;Film

1979: Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (documentary) (scenes deleted)

1984: A Soldier's Story

1986: Unnatural Causes

1989: Sing

1990: A Different World

2002: Sylvester: Mighty Real (short subject)

2005: Preaching to the Choir

2006: Idlewild

2007: Cover

2008: Semi-Pro

2011: Mama, I Want to Sing!

;Television

1990: A Different World

1992: Out All Night

1994: The Nanny

1997: Cosby

2003: Living It Up With Patti LaBelle

2007: The Dog Whisperer

2008: An Evening With The Stars: A Tribute to Patti Labelle

Music video

Going Home to Gospel with Patti Labelle (1991) with Albertina Walker, Barrett Sisters, Ricky Dillard and many more.

Further reading

References

External links

Official website

Official FELA! Broadway website

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Frank Templeton Prince (13 September 1912 – 7 August 2003) was a British poet and academic, known generally for his best-known poem Soldiers Bathing, written during the Second World War in 1942, which has been frequently included in anthologies. He was born in Kimberley, South Africa. His father Henry (Harry) Prince (formerly Prinz) was from the East End of London, of Dutch-Jewish descent, while his mother was Scottish. He was educated at the Christian Brothers College in Kimberley, then Balliol College, Oxford. He had a visiting position at Princeton University. In World War II he was involved in intelligence work at Bletchley Park.

He married in 1943, and took an academic position after the war at the University of Southampton, where he settled. In the mid-1970s, he taught at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, as well as Brandeis University in the United States and Sana'a University, Yemen.

Prince's early work drew praise from T.S. Eliot, who was then editor at Faber and Faber. Eliot published some of his poetry in The Criterion before publishing Prince's first book Poems in 1938 . In work such as the Afterword on Rupert Brooke his interest in the metrical ideas of Robert Bridges is evident.

F. T. Prince died in Southampton in 2003.

Works

Poems (1938) Faber and Faber

The Italian Element In Milton's Verse (1951) criticism

Soldiers Bathing (1954)

The Doors of Stone: Poems, 1938-1962 (1963)

Memoirs in Oxford (1970) verse autobiography

Drypoints of the Hasidim (1975)

Afterword on Rupert Brooke (1976)

Collected Poems,1935-1992 (1979)

Yuan Chen Variations

Walks in Rome (1987) verse autobiography

Collected Poems 1935-1992 (1993, Carcanet Press)

References

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