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Magnificat mcduffiedeb 326 views Paxon SAS Honors Chorus sings Glenn Burleigh\'s \"Magnificat\" at District Music Performance Assessment in March 2011 at.
Come Away Melinda mcduffiedeb 218 views Come Away Melinda
He Will Make A Way Edited mcduffiedeb 59 views He Will Make A Way Edited
Yes He Will Edited mcduffiedeb 35 views Yes He Will Edited
Because I Got Faith mcduffiedeb 32 views Because I Got Faith
Ritz Voices featuring Damien Daley NYC Tour 2006 "HOW GREAT THOU ART" mcduffiedeb 240 views And a little child shall lead them...this is the "child" who at the age of 19 taught me to sing soprano. He's all grown up now and so anointed with God's musical grace. Da...
CELEBRATE '10-ENCOURAGE YOURSELF FEATURING GEORGE HUFF mcduffiedeb 472 views American Idol finalist George Huff joins Jacksonville Mass Choir and Paxon School for Advanced Studies Choirs in their annual Black History Month extravaganza. Artistic Dir...
Ritz Voices McDonalds.mp4 mcduffiedeb 399 views Ritz Voices recorded this TV commercial composed by Deb McDuffie for McDonald's Jacksonville, Florida in 2002.
Lift Every Voice and Sing - Al Green & Deniece Williams mcduffiedeb 15,543 views In 1985 Miller High Life asked me to come up with a "meaningful" project for Black History Month. I decided to arrange and record a celebratory contemporary version of "L...
Great Adventure's Magic 'Til Midnight2.flv mcduffiedeb 51 views Valerie Simpson sings this disco version of the Great Adventure jingle I wrote in 1978.

About Deborah J. McDuffie

Pioneer producer/composer/vocalist is credited with being the first female jingle composer/producer in the industry and one of the first women to ink a production deal wth a major record label. .

McDuffie has worked with Luther Vandross, Patti Labelle, Janet Jackson, Ashford & Simpson, Roberta Flack, Wynton Marsalis, Temptations, Gladys Knight & Pips, 4 Tops, Spinners, Al Green, Sylistics, Charlie Wilson, Jose Feliciano, Tito Puente, Bobby Caldwell,Michael Bolton and the list goes on and on...

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2006 Jacksonville Cultural Council Arts Awards "Educator of the Year" and African American Literary and Media Lifetime Achievement "Phoenix" Award winner Deborah McDuffie boasts an impressive career combining talents in production, performance, composing, arranging, marketing and teaching.

Credited with being the first female composer/producer in the advertising industry, Ms. McDuffie is a multi award-winning pioneer, a "behind the scenes" legend, so to speak. She has composed/produced/performed with Janet Jackson, Gladys Knight, Al Green, Grover Washington, Jr, Patti Labelle, Luther Vandross, Michael Bolton, Roberta Flack, Will Smith, Ashford & Simpson, Wynton Marsalis, James Ingram, Jennifer Holiday, Temptations, Saturday Night Live...and more.

In his nationally televised BET Biography, the late LUTHER VANDROSS credits McDuffie with developing his legendary "woo". Ms. McDuffie is currently Chair of the Fine Arts Department/Choral Director at Paxon School for Advanced Studies and Executive Director of Arts4Jax, Inc. a community performing arts foundation in Jacksonville, Florida. She is Artistic Director for the extremely popular contemporary youth ensemble, JACKSONVILLE MASS CHOIR and its younger component, BOYS AND GIRLS CHOIR.

Her current album projects: "HELLO BABY", a collection of original songs for infants and toddlers, teen vocal group FULL CIRCLE'S "Something Old, Something New" a CD of classic and neo R&B songs that includes a song co-written by McDuffie, Bud Ellison and PATTI LABELLE and a never before released classic penned by MICHAEL BOLTON. TANIA YEGELWEL'S debut singer/songwriter CD "From the Heart" which includes the moving tribute to holocaust victims "Six Pointed Star" and STEVEN AMBURGEY'S debut pop/country CD release "All About Love". San Franciscan spoken word poetess CASSANDRA will be next on McDuffie's list as well as Musical Director responsibilities for 2 local musical productions.

McDuffie's production of AL GREEN'S "You've Got a Friend" a duet with Billy Preston, appears on "THE BEST OF AL GREEN" compilation CD. "Georgy Porgy," a track she co-produced and vocal-arranged featuring Luther Vandross is featured on the CD compilation "LOVE, LUTHER".