Talk:Patti Austin

Needs more work
Needs more info and Wikifying. Clean up tag added. A curate's egg 14:21, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Birth year?
The text says 1950, but the persondata has 1948. I've categorized the birth year as missing meanwhile. Dsp13 12:30, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

I looked everywhere they say "1948" and not "1950", so I am changing it. (Trampton 09:45, 13 March 2007 (UTC)).

I've been a Patti Austin fan for 25 years. It's true that a lot of sources say 1948, it's nevertheless wrong. In an article of the "Jet Magazine" from December 2005, she is quoted "Being 55, I know how not to get stupid", and she's really not the type to lie about these kind of things. I'm changing the date back. Ebab 17:22, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
 * It makes more sense having both data.--Engelbaet 09:19, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think so. Two birth dates for one person make no sense at all, unless there is a really compelling reason. I have given a source where Patti Austin gives her age. If you want to dispute her own statement, you should give a really good source, not just something you can find "everywhere" in the Internet. Ebab 21:38, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
 * The mentioned article is not such a reference. There is a big uncertaincy in the assumed birth date 1950, too. Cf. Verifiability.--Engelbaet 10:37, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

The so-called "Love Collection"
I'm removing the reference to "Love Collection" under "Compilations", because it's not a compilation but another release of the "Street of Dreams" album, minus one track. Ebab 17:37, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Bob James
Patti also did vocals on Bob James' 1974 album "Two." The song is called "I Feel a Song in My Heart," and the whole album is the perfect soundtrack for strolling through Philadelphia in the rain. In my opinion, of course. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Special:Contributions/ (talk)

This is a Problem...
Why are you constantly putting peoples surnames when describing what about them? You're doing that over and over. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Celeste6566 (talk • contribs) 00:56, 2 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Because it's clearer than just using a pronoun every time, especially when other people are mentioned in the text. —C.Fred (talk) 01:29, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Sources don't belong in External links- they belong here
Sources belong here until they have been used. These sources do not ever belong in External links. I have moved the link farm from there to this talk page where they do belong. Warning: I didn't check them over, so be careful in choosing any references here. Thank you! --Leahtwosaints (talk) 23:39, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Patti Austin Interview Jazz Monthly
 * Patti Austin AllAboutJazz.com Interview
 * Patti Austin Power To End Stroke Campaign Interview

This sounds like a promo blurb not an encyclopedia
This part doesn't sound like something in an encyclopedia: "... Austin remains one singer who clearly needs no such production techniques to cover a crystal clear, flexible, and knowing voice imitated by many, duplicated by none." That whole sentence is speculative and fawning. -Crunchy Numbers (talk) 15:09, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Possible sources for her stage show back in 2002
I'm not sure where the best place would be to put it and I worked tech for the show so I probably shouldn't add it myself. But she wrote and starred in a show named for one of her songs around the same time she was getting back with major record labels. It was called Patti Austin: On the Way to Love and was staged during the 01-02 theatre season at the Sacramento Theatre Company, not long after the album of the same name came out. It was basically a biographical piece with music. So far as I know she never did the show anywhere else.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-aug-17-ca-35080-story.html Behind a paywall so I can't recall how much detail they went into. https://musicianguide.com/biographies/1608003993/Patti-Austin.html I don't know how reliable a source this is but in the paragraph where they talk about the show, they reference an area weekly newspaper that might work as a source. Millahnna (talk) 23:29, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

Children? Personal life? Family?
Why doesn’t the article include any of this? TheGreatestLuvofAll ( chat with me ) 01:40, 15 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Ms. Austin never married and has no children, but I was confused, so now I see why people don’t have a lot of children. TheGreatestLuvofAll  ( chat with me ) 01:43, 15 January 2024 (UTC)