Randy Crawford

Veronica Crawford was born on 18th February, 1952 in Macon, Georgia, USA. Crawford first performed at club gigs from Cincinnati to Saint-Tropez, but made her name in the mid-1970s in New York, where she sang with jazzmen George Benson and Cannonball Adderley. Adderley invited her to sing on his album, Big Man: The Legend Of John Henry (1975). She led R&B veterans The Crusaders on the transatlantic hit “Street Life” (1979)

Her follow-up solo efforts included “One Day I’ll Fly Away” (1980) and “You Might Need Somebody” (1981), which became soul standards. The album, Secret Combination (1981) stayed on the UK Albums Chart for sixty weeks, after which her profile dipped, despite a return to the UK Top Ten with “Almaz” in 1986. In June 1981, Crawford also released another hit, “One Hello”, from the album Windsong.

Naked And True (1995) brought Crawford back to her roots: it included “Give Me the Night”, “Purple Rain”, “Forget Me Nots” and more.

She has sung with Bootsy Collins, Johnny Bristol, Quincy Jones, Al Jarreau, Rick Springfield, Katri Helena, Michael Kamen, Zucchero, David Sanborn, Steve Hackett, the Spanish band Presuntos Implicados, the Norwegian jazz-rock band Lava and Joe Sample amongst others.

Randy Crawford was set to perform in October 2018 but it was cancelled due to her suffering a stroke.