Patti Austin

Patti Austin is an African American R&B and jazz music singer born August 10 1948 in Harlem New York. She made her debut at the Apollo Theater at age four and had a contract with RCA Records when she was only five.

Patti Austin is an African American R&B and jazz music singer born August 10 1948 in Harlem New York. She made her debut at the Apollo Theater at age four and had a contract with RCA Records when she was only five. Quincy Jones and Dinah Washington have proclaimed themselves as her godparents.

By the late 1960s Austin was a prolific session musician and commercial jingle singer. By the 1980s she was signed to Jones's Qwest Records and she began having hits. She charted twenty R&B songs between 1969 and 1991 and had success on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, where she hit #1 in 1981 with "Do You Love Me?" / "The Genie."