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Randy Crawford (born Veronica Crawford, February 18 1952, in Macon, Georgia), is a jazz and Rhythm and blues|R&B singer.
Career
Crawford first polished her craft at club gigs from Cincinnati, Ohio|Cincinnati to Saint-Tropez, but made her name in mid 1970s in New York City|New York, where she sang with jazzmen George Benson and Cannonball Adderley. Along the way she has rubbed elbows with Bootsy Collins, Johnny Bristol, Quincy Jones, Al Jarreau and others.
She then led R&B veterans The Crusaders on the transatlantic big chart-topper|hit "Street Life" (1979). This song stayed atop the United States|U.S. jazz record chart|chart for twenty weeks and has since become both a rare groove and disco classic, and appeared in television advertisement|commercials in the early 2000s. Her follow up solo (music)|solo efforts included "One Day I'll Fly Away" (1980, Grand Prize for Tokyo International Music Festival and UK #1); "You Might Need Somebody" (1981); and "Rainy Night in Georgia" (1981); which all became Soul music|soul traditional pop music|standards. The album, ''Secret Combination'' (1981) stayed on the Billboard Magazine|Billboard album chart for sixty weeks, after which her profile dipped, despite a return to the Top 40|Top Ten with "Almaz" in 1986.
''Naked And True'' (1995) brought Crawford back to her root... read all
Randy Crawford
