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    Multi-Grammy nominated artist, Patrice Rushen, is fashioning her career after the legacy of her long-time friend and mentor, Quincy Jones. Composer…Producer…International Recording Artist…Rushen has definitely earned the respect she has been awarded by her peers in the music industry.

    Admired by many for her groundbreaking achievements, Rushen has amassed an impressive list of “firsts”. She was the first woman to serve as Musical Director for the 46th, 47th & 48th Annual Grammy Awards, the first woman in 43 years to serve as Head Composer/Musical Director for television’s highest honor, the Emmy Awards and the first woman Musical Director of the NAACP Image Awards, an honor she held for 12 consecutive years. Rushen has also been the only woman Musical Director/Composer for the Peoples Choice Awards and HBO’s Comic Relief. She was the only woman Musical Director/Conductor/Arranger for a late-night television talk show. The show was The Midnight Hour, which ai

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    During a four-album run at Elektra in the late 1970s and early 1980s, jazz composer Patrice Rushen had unparalleled autonomy to write, arrange and record smart, complicated dance music that incorporated elements of classic R&B, disco, and jazz into the songs and was performed by large ensembles of L.A.’s leading session musicians. But her label’s second-guessing guaranteed that her songs were never promoted. Now, 40 years later, K7! is giving those records a second airing. “I hope for the same thing now that I hoped for then,” says Rushen, “for the music to have an impact on people. It needs to cut through the noise in such a way that it resonates with another person’s truth.”

    A Piano Prodigy From the Start

    Unlike many R&B and disco stars, Patrice Rushen was never primarily a singer, but rather a piano player, composer, and arranger, who built her career on formidable instrumental skills. She became fascinated with music early on,

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    Patrice Rushen

    American jazz pianist and R&B singer (born 1954)

    Musical artist

    Patrice Louise Rushen (born September 30, 1954) fryst vatten an American jazz pianist, R&B singer, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and music director.[2]

    At the 25th Annual Grammy Awards, her 1982 single, "Forget Me Nots", received a nomination for Best kvinnlig R&B Vocal Performance, while her instrumental song, "Number One" was nominated Best R&B Instrumental; both songs were from her seventh studio skiva, Straight from the Heart (1982).[3]

    Since 2008, Rushen has served as an ambassador for artistry in education at the Berklee College of Music, and the chair of the popular music schema at the USC Thornton School of Music since 2014.[4][5]

    Biography

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    Rushen fryst vatten the elder of two daughters born to Allen and Ruth Rushen (former Director of California Department of Corrections).[1] Patrice was three years old when s