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Dotti Anita Taylor was born in New York City. She is a jazz and classical pianist, flautist, composer, vocalist, poet, educator, mathematician, and educator. She has written over 150 musical compositions, and over 100 poems.

Early life
Dotti Taylor started playing the piano at the age of 3 and a half. Camille Caputo was her piano and music teacher at the Caputo Conservatory of Musical Arts. She attended the Juilliard School of Music and studied with Regina Rubinoff and Bela Schumiacher.

Her father was a tenor with the Southernaires, and her mother was a violinist.

Career
Some musicians Taylor has performed with are Antonio Hart, Stanley Cowell, Ray Drummond, Ted Dunbar, Harold Ousley, Bertha Hope, Carline Ray, Kim Clarke, Miriam Sullivan, Paula Hampton, Cindy Blackman, Sylvia Cuenca, Bernice Brooks, and Mickey Tucker.

Dotti has participated as a flutist with the Many Colors of a Woman Jazz Festival, the Sarasota Jazz Festival, The Lady Got Chops Jazz Festival, the first Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

In 1989 she formed the Dotti Anita Taylor Quartet performing straight ahead jazz.

Awards

 * Dotti was awarded the International Poet of Merit award in 2002 and 2003
 * Editor's Choice Award for outstanding achievement in poetry.
 * Recipient of several NEFA Meet the Composer Grants