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Siedah Garrett (Deborah Christine Garrett) was born on 24 June, 1960 in Los Angeles, California, U.S., is an American singer and songwriter. Discover Siedah Garrett's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

Popular As Deborah Christine Garrett
Occupation Singer · songwriter · composer
Age 63 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 24 June 1960
Birthday 24 June
Birthplace Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1950

At the 50th Grammy Awards Garrett along with Henry Krieger won the Grammy for Best Song-Motion Picture TV, Visual Media for "Love You I Do".

1960

Deborah Christine "Siedah" Garrett (born June 24, 1960) is an American singer and songwriter who has written songs and performed backing vocals for many recording artists in the music industry, such as Michael Jackson, the Pointer Sisters, Brand New Heavies, Quincy Jones, Tevin Campbell, Donna Summer, Madonna, Jennifer Hudson among others.

Garrett was born on June 24, 1960, in Los Angeles and raised in Compton, where she started singing as a child.

Born Deborah Christine Garrett, she opted to change her name at age 13, because of the disdain she had towards her birth name.

Garrett said, "It's a pretty name but nobody called me Deborah. It was always abbreviated to Deb, Debbie, or DeeDee. I hated it".

She later changed it to Siedah, which meant "shining and star-like".

As a teenager, Garrett was part of a five piece band called Black Velvet & Satin Soul, which performed Top 40 hits around various clubs.

Garrett's mother was an interior designer who had singer D.J. Rogers as one of her clients.

1977

Rogers heard Garrett's singing abilities and recruited her as a background vocalist on his 1977 album, Love, Music and Life.

1980

Siedah Garrett appeared as a contestant on Password Plus in 1980.

In the mid-1980s, she also toured and recorded with Sergio Mendes, appearing on three of his albums.

Garrett's association with Jackson enabled her to sing on several Quincy Jones albums of the 1980s and 1990s.

1982

Later, she joined the soul/funk outfit Plush, who released their self-titled album in 1982 on RCA Records.

She soon began stepping out on her own as a solo artist.

1984

Her hits include "Don't Look Any Further" with Dennis Edwards ( pop, R&B in 1984); "Do You Want It Right Now?" in 1985 from the Fast Forward soundtrack ( Hot Dance Music/Club Play and R&B), which was covered by Taylor Dayne in 1988 and later covered by Armand van Helden in 2007 under the title "I Want Your Soul"; "Everchanging Times" from the movie Baby Boom ( on the Adult Contemporary chart in 1987), and "K.I.S.S.I.N.G." ( in 1988).

The latter song went to on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.

1986

Garrett's professional involvement with Madonna goes back some years as she previously supplied backing vocals on some of Madonna's earlier material including True Blue (1986), and Who's That Girl (1987).

1987

In 1987, Garrett was involved in Michael Jackson's Bad album, singing a duet with Jackson on the number one single "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" and co-writing and singing backing vocals on another number one, "Man in the Mirror".

1988

In addition, Garrett's 1988 solo album Kiss Of Life includes "Baby's Got It Bad", a version of Jackson's "Got The Hots" with rewritten lyrics.

"Got The Hots" was an unreleased track from the Thriller sessions at the time, but has since been released.

1989

Affectionately dubbed "Sid" by Quincy Jones, she co-wrote the hit songs "Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me)" (originally an instrumental tune by The Brothers Johnson to which she added lyrics), "Back On The Block", and "The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)", in addition to performing lead vocals for "I Don't Go for That", "One Man Woman" and "The Places You Find Love", all on Jones' Grammy Award-winning 1989 Back on the Block album.

In 1989, she forayed into the acting world, starring in a TV sitcom pilot for NBC called "Wally and the Valentines" opposite William Ragsdale, Audrey Meadows, Tatyana Ali, Tevin Campbell and Cindy Herron.

1990

In 1990, she became host of the show America's Top 10.

1992

Garrett also toured with Michael Jackson from 1992 to 1993 on his Dangerous World Tour, singing backing vocals and duetting with him for "I Just Can't Stop Loving You".

In the Dangerous album, Garrett also wrote a song "Keep the Faith" with Michael Jackson and Glen Ballard, the co-songwriter of Man in the Mirror.

She appears in the concert film "Michael Jackson Live in Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour".

1995

In 1995 Garrett was also involved with Maysa Leak's (of the group Incognito) solo debut album as co-writer of the track "Sexy" in which she also sang backing vocals.

1996

In 1996, she joined the Brand New Heavies, collaborating on just one album, 1997's Shelter.

As part of the band, she co-wrote their top 5 hit "Sometimes" and enjoyed a minor hit with a cover of Carole King's "You've Got A Friend".

1997

In 1997, she wrote "Be Good or Be Gone" for Edyta Górniak.

1998

Garrett left the group in early 1998 to concentrate on her own songwriting.

2004

Garrett supported Madonna as a backing singer and dancer on The Re-Invention Tour in 2004.

2006

Garrett has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Song, and won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards for co-writing "Love You I Do" (performed by Jennifer Hudson) for the 2006 musical film, Dreamgirls.

In 2006, Garrett contributed her songwriting services to Bill Condon's film adaptation of Dreamgirls, providing lyrics for two of the four new songs added to the score.

2007

One of her compositions, the Jennifer Hudson solo "Love You I Do", earned Garrett a nomination for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Original Song.

She represented America in the opening ceremony of 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games singing the song "I Know I Can", and in the opening ceremony of Expo 2010 Shanghai China, singing the song "Better City, Better Life" with Jonathan Buck, both songs which she co-wrote with Quincy Jones.

2013

In a 2013 interview with Luka Neskovic, Garrett said: "All I wanted to do was give Michael something he would want to say to the world, and I knew it couldn't be another 'Oh baby, I love you' song. It had to be a little bit more than that. It needed to have some substance. He hadn't recorded anything like this to that point. I was just taking the risk that he might not get it, you know. First of all, I need to send it through Quincy because if Quincy didn't like it there is no way that Michael would've ever heard it. It was a huge privilege for me when Quincy decided that the song was good enough to play for Michael."

Garrett and Jackson recorded a Spanish version of "I Just Can't Stop Loving You", titled "Todo Mi Amor Eres Tu" (translated to "All My Love Is You"), as well as a French version titled "Je Ne Veux Pas La Fin De Nous", during the same recording sessions for the "Bad" album.

A gifted musical sight reader with perfect vocal pitch (as most session vocalists are), the initial duet for "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" came as a total surprise to Garrett who simply answered the call expecting to only appear as a background vocalist.

She initially felt intimidated with excitement when she entered the recording booth and noticed two music stands with sheet music that had lyric parts labeled "Michael" and "Siedah".