Following a break in her career, Randy Crawford experienced a sensational comeback two years ago.

Her last album, Naked And True, became the third most successful long-player of her career, selling 250,000 copies in the United States alone.

On her latest album, Every Kind Of Mood, Randy goes beyond the frontiers of the everyday with contemplative, slow-to-mid-tempo songs, full of warmth, sympathy and fantastic string arrangements.

Her smouldering vocals, which are very reminiscent of the Philly sound of the Seventies, are enough to give you goosebumps.

There are also bass lines to sink into and piano licks of mesmerising eloquence.

On the 11 solo albums since her 1976 debut, Everything Must Change, Randy has presented herself as a singer who has never narrowed her frontiers.

As guest singer on the 1978 Crusaders' hit Street Life, she moved into the international charts for the first time.

Today, classic ballads such as One Day I'll Fly Away and Almaz remain her trademarks as much as the funky up-tempo numbers from the Nightline album and Secret Combination.

Three world tours in the Eighties led Randy to Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and North America.

In Great Britain she played two concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra. She shared the stage with Al Jarreau and Ray Charles, appeared at a UN benefit concert for Croatia, as well as a Unicef TV special, and played a Christmas concert in 1991 at the Vatican in the presence of the Pope.

Randy was born Veronica in 1952. While growing up in Macon, Georgia, she sang in the church choir.

At the age of 15, she had already started making appearances in clubs.

During a high school vacation, Randy took on an engagement in St Tropez. By the time she was 21 years old, she had already worked with the likes of Cannonball Adderley, Quincy Jones and George Benson.

An icon of popular black music, Randy has dedicated herself to her art for more than 30 years.

With her immense stylistic spectrum from jazz to soul and R&B to pop, the shy American has won countless admirers from all around the globe.

She charms audiences with the warm, feminine sound of her voice and, with jazz truly in her soul, has been able to give songs from every genre an unmistakable character.

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