Lorraine Feather
Billie Jane Lee Lorraine Feather ( born September 10, 1948 in Manhattan, New York) is an American jazz singer and songwriter.
Life and work
Lorraine Feathers father was jazz writer and producer Leonard Feather; her mother Jane was a former big band singer ( temporarily with Peggy Lee shared an apartment ). Feather was given the first name after her godmother Billie Holiday but used since school days only her middle name Lorraine, which was borrowed from the standard "Sweet Lorraine". As a child she received piano lessons from John Lewis; From 1960, she grew up in Los Angeles where she attended the LA Community College.
In the late 1960s, she returned to New York to begin a career as a singer; she entered, inter alia, in the Broadway version of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar, was background singer for Petula Clark, Grand Funk Railroad and performed in cabarets. In the 1970s she lived again in Los Angeles, where she held various club gigs, as in the Parisian Room or in Donte 's. In the late 1970s she turned increasingly to jazz singing and became a member of the vocal ensemble Full Swing; Jake Hanna recommended the singer to the Concord Jazz label, for which she recorded more albums with Hanna, Chuck Domanico, Scott Hamilton, Herb Ellis and Joe Diorio her debut album Sweet Lorraine and in the 1980s. 2004 was an album with compositions that are associated with the Duke Ellington Orchestra ( Such Sweet Thunder: Music of the Duke Ellington Orchestra ); 2010, her album age, in which she was accompanied by musicians like Bela Fleck, Shelly Berg and Russell Ferrante.
It was propagated since the 1980s as a songwriter active; they also wrote lyrics for Duke Ellington's " Creole Love Call" and Billy Strayhorn's "Chelsea Bridge" and "Rockin ' in Rhythm." She was also responsible for the lyrics for the song "Faster, Higher, Stronger ", the Jessye Norman lectured at the finals of the 1996 Olympic Games. They also sang theme songs from movies and TV series such as Beverly Hills 90210, Family Matters, The Days of Our Lives and Santa Barbara, she also wrote songs for the Disney film Dinosaurs. Lorraine Feather received seven Emmy nominations for her texts. 2005 Feather worked as a songwriter for The Thief Theatre Project; In 2007, she wrote lyrics for the musical Pest Control and for the musical adaptation of Tom Wolfe's book Bonfire of the Vanities. Feathers songs have been covered by artists such as Phyllis Hyman, Kenny Rankin, Patti Austin, Diane Schuur and Cleo Laine.
She is married with drummer Tony Morales. the couple first moved from Los Angeles to Half Moon Bay, 2007 to the San Juan Islands in Washington State.