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Patti Austin

With Quincy Jones as her godfather and Dinah Washington as her godmother, there was always a fair chance that Patti Austin would become a star, and that was confirmed when she made her first appearance as a four-year-old at the Apollo Theatre in New York. Stepping out in front of thousands of people, the precocious young diva noticed that the orchestra were playing in the wrong key, so she stopped, and - to their stunned disbelief - told them in no uncertain terms of their error. The child star graduated into one of the most accomplished vocalists of the 1980s, working with every...