FREDA PAYNE

Freda Payne is a Detroit native who never realized 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 entered talent contest on local TV as well as the national TV show, Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour. At age fourteen she joined The Don Large’s Make Way for Youth radio show broadcasted on station WJR in the penthouse of the Fisher Bldg. 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. Recording her next album three years later on MGM records. Was an early protégé of Quincy Jones during his big band era, also performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2008 in honor of Quincy’s seventy fifth birthday celebration.

She has just released her latest 26th CD, Capitol Records Studio Recording Jazz Big Band cd Let There Be Love full of Duets with Johnny Mathis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kurt Elling and Kenny Latimore that is charting the jazz charts. Her previous CD Come Back Love on the Artistry label for Mack Ave, was a return to Freda’s true jazz roots

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