May 22: Freda Payne

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Freda Payne

Friday, May 22 at 8:00 PM

Yoshi’s
510 Embarcadero West, Oakland, CA
510-238-9200
www.yoshis.com/event/777241-freda-payne-oakland/

Freda-Payne-Cabaret-Scenes-Magazine_212“Freda Payne is a versatile performer, quick to vary song styles among swing, be-bop, R&B, jazz, and pop.” — Cabaret Scenes

Freda Payne is a Detroit native who didn’t realize her talents until the early age of twelve. Her piano teacher discovered her singing ability and, from that point on, Freda was singing for local affairs around Detroit and even a entered talent contest on local TV as well as the national TV show, The Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour. At age fourteen she joined The Don Large’s Make Way for Youth radio show broadcast on station WJR in the penthouse of the Fisher Building. Freda’s first album deal was on the Impulse label with ABC Paramount in New York: After the Lights Go Down Low and Much More. She recorded her next album three years later on MGM records.
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She was an early protégée of Quincy Jones during his big band period, and also performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2008 in honor of Jones’s seventy-fifth birthday celebration.

Freda may be recognized by her 1970s’ hits, “Band of Gold” and “Bring the Boys Home.” The producing team of Holland ,Dozier, and Holland were the ones who brought her to worldwide attention with those two gold records. She received a nomination for best R&B female vocalist for “Band of Gold,” and another nomination from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for her album on the Invictus label, Contact, also produced by HDH. Freda has film credits as well: The Book of Numbers, Rag Doll, Sprung, The Nutty Professor, The Klumps (Nutty Professor II), Cordially Invited, Rhapsody, and The Divorce.

Freda has a list of musical theater credits: Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Daddy Goodness, Jelly’s Last Jam, Blues in the Night, and recently starring in Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song. Her new CD on the Artistry label for Mack Ave, is a return to Freda’s true jazz roots with the wonderful material written by Gretchen Valande and Tom Robinson.
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Here she shows a smooth connection between jazz and pop. Along with some gorgeous band and string arrangements by Bill Cunliffe, this might be Freda’s best showing yet.
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