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Patti Austin (born August 10 1950<ref>
Some sources still list Ms. Austin's birth year as 1948. She gave this date in the early years of her career, in order to avoid child work regulations. "I lied about my age and I kicked it up two years because in those days it was a problem to work at that age. [...] I think women are very foolish when they say they're younger than they are anyway." Quoted in:
{{Citation
| last=Roberts
| first=Michael
| title=Bless The Godchild
| journal=Jazziz Magazine
| publication-place=Boca Raton, FL
| issue=4
| year=2007
| pages=32–37
</ref>, in Harlem, New York), to Edna and Gordon Austin, is a Grammy award|Grammy-winning R&B and jazz music singer.
Career
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 Chart-topper|number one in 1981 with "Do You Love Me?" / "The Genie".