Siedah Garrett

Siedah Garrett an unknown legend and native of Los Angeles started off as a singer in a variety of local bands in her early days When she was 16 her mother Penny was working on RB singer DJ Rogers home She kept telling him My daughter can sing He said Sure your daughter my plumbers cousin my maids nephew everybody can sing But Siedahs mother was very persistent and DJ eventually gave in She took Siedah over to his house he played a chord on his piano and said Sing this She sang it and he went Oh He played a more complicated riff and she sang it He went Ohh The next thing she knew she was in a recording session When Siedah auditioned for Quincy Jones a lot of producers and songwriters were in the room This led to Siedah singing demos for all these producers and songwriters in Los Angeles Quincy Jones liked what he saw and signed Siedah to his label as an artist and songwriter As a recording artist Siedah Garretts first big hit was a duet with Dennis Edwards Dont Look Any Further in 1984 Artists who have recorded her songs include mentor Quincy Jones Common Aretha Franklin Miles Davis Earth Wind Fire Jamie Foxx Jennifer Hudson william Ray Charles Sarah Vaughn Ella Fitzgerald Toto Sheena Easton Natalie Cole Barry White The Pointer Sisters Donna Summer Dionne Warwick Patti Austin Roberta Flack Al Jarreau Sergio Mendes Diana Ross and many others After Jones played the demo of Man in the Mirror with Garretts vocals for Jackson he not only loved the song he loved her voice so much he passed on other notable singers being considered to duet with him on I Just Cant Stop Loving You and chose her Both I Just Cant Stop Loving You and Man in the Mirror became number one hits and changed Garretts life forever She was soon catapulted to the status of one of the most soughtafter lyricists in the world after she cowrote Man in the Mirror for Michael Jacksons charttopping Bad album and recorded as his duet partner on I Just Cant Stop Loving You Siedahs music has been extremely popular among film and television productions as well and was featured in Love Jones The Lego Batman Movie Rio Rio 2 Dreamgirls Batman Lean On Me Fast Forward Baby Boom the Sharon Stoneproduced documentary Femme Women Healing The World the awardwinning film One Little Finger the Spike Lee film Da Sweet Blood of Jesus The Voice Netflixs Fuller House and the hugely successful Playstation video game Nioh Siedah is a passionate knitter and has a Podcast on iheart Radio called The Uppity Knitter She interviews celebrities and gives her listeners a peek into the private lives of their favorite stars Siedah resides in Los Angeles and is married to former RCA Records VPAR Erik Nuri who also serves as her talent manager Siedah currently has songs in the Broadway show MJ the Musical and the newly released SpielbergJones film The Color Purple Siedah is always on the move she blazes trails and changed the world Siedah Garrett is undeniably a hero an icon a legend and an Inner City Cultural Center Alumnus