Patrice Rushen - Keepin' Faith In Love

http://www.patricerushen.com

From the 1979 Pizzazz

Rushen was born in Los Angeles, California on September 30, 1954, the eldest of two daughters born to her father and the former Ruth Harris. She demonstrated her musical potential at a young age; she was regarded as a child prodigy. In her teens, she won the prestigious 1972 Monterey Jazz Festival. She earned her degree in music from the University of Southern California. As a mature woman, she became a jazz master and top musical director.

Due to her musical talents, Rushen has made many ground-breaking achievements. She became the first woman to serve as head composer/musical director for the Grammy Awards and the Emmy Awards, the first woman to serve as musical director for the NAACP Image Awards broadcast, an honor she held for twelve consecutive years. Rushen has been the only woman to be a musical director/composer for the People's Choice Awards, HBO's Comic Relief and the only woman musical director/conductor/arranger for a late-night television talk show, The Midnight Hour which aired on CBS.

In addition, Rushen was named musical director/composer for Newsweek's first American Achievement Awards, broadcast on CBS from the Kennedy Center and she served as the musical director for Janet Jackson's World Tour, "janet."

In 2008, Rushen accepted a professorship at the prestigious Berklee College of Music, in Boston. The course is Patrice Rushen: The Value of Music Education.

She also continues to play keyboard and has played in the tour bands of Lee Ritenour and Wayne Shorter in recent years.
[edit] Solo career

Rushen has also achieved great success as a singer. A classically trained pianist, Rushen has spent great deal of time channeling her skills towards making great music. Winning a competition at the 1972 Monterey Jazz Festival put Patrice into the spotlight. The attention garnered from this earned her a contract with Prestige Records in 1973.

After recording three albums and becoming an in-demand session player, including with artists such as Jean-Luc Ponty, Rushen signed with Elektra Records in 1978. Forging an engaging jazz/R&B/funk fusion, this fresh mixture of styles gave her great success with a string of Top Ten R&B hits, including "Haven't You Heard," "Forget Me Nots," "Feels So Real," "Watch Out," "You Remind Me," and "Never Gonna Give You Up" from her first five albums (Patrice, Pizzazz, Posh, Straight From the Heart, and Now). Rushen also performed her single I Need Your Love on the hit show Soul Train in 1981. She also penned the opening theme for The Steve Harvey Show. Her mentor and friend is Quincy Jones. Rushen also plays multiple instruments including flute, piano, percussion, and clarinet.
ASCAP Songwriter's Award, 1988; USC Black Student Assembly, Legacy of Excellence Award, 1992; Crystal Award, American Women in Film, 1994; AS CAP Award, Most Performed Song in Motion Pictures for 1997 for "Men in Black," 1998.

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[bluegrassrap2]

GREAT SINGING MA,AM, THATS RIGHT ON KEEP THE FAITH , THATS GOOD VIBES .GBY &WTG!!!

[ronvillaroman]

what a grammar lol... i meant who also performed the dance with me! gosh i even found a photo of us dancing this song and it wasn't 1983-84. the date at the back of the photo says sept1981! and i even remember some dance moves that we thought were cool back then lol... oh my... this song made me high for a while.

[ronvillaroman]

OMG!!! i knew such song exists! i did a choreography of this song back in 1983 or 84 which we performed in a highschool party but my h.s. pal who owned the 45'vinyl record of this song and who was also performed the dance with me couldn't remember! i was tryin to hum it to her but couldn't quite do it right cuz i could only remember some parts and my friend was laughin at me she must think i'm crazy! thanks to the one who uploaded this. now i could prove to my friend that i wasn't losin my mind

[ronvillaroman]

i kn

[DrJColeman]

Love the percussion intro!!!!! And the dynamics of the horn section along with the bass line and heavy piano chords... What the groove is all about! Sounds like it could have been a EWF song cause their secret weapon is their HORNS and bass and assorted percussion... Love this!

[faventyne]

An other very good song in this Pizzazz album, strong bass, maybe she could have make it more soulful and instrumental, but it remains a very good piece of music.

[btinsley1]

man we had it good back in the day....a primo groove with a built-in message

[tito1981able]

Yep.I know its a badd jam to dance to!