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Lonette McKee

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Also known as Lonette Rita McKee

American actress

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1954-07-22

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,280
Total plays
7,487

Tags

souljazzjazz vocalfemale vocalists90s

Lonette began her music career in Detroit, Michigan as a child prodigy, where she started writing music, singing, playing keyboards, and performing at the tender age of seven. At fourteen she recorded her first record, which became an instant regional pop hit. McKee wrote the title song for the film Quadroon when just fifteen. She has written and produced three solo CD's, the most recent for Spike Lee's Columbia 40 Acres and a Mule label. McKee scored <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Lonette+M

via Last.fm · Lonette McKee

Quotes

  • It was a project where all the elements aligned to create a classic and that’s what happens with quality projects. We don’t have a whole lot of quality projects made, especially for Black films.
  • For me to know Aretha Franklin did the soundtrack, I loved it and did not have a problem with it. Of course in retrospect we know the audience was so hyper-devoted to the original and would have loved to hear us do an album or CD on it. It is what it is and I was very thrilled that Aretha did it, frankly.
  • We have to especially in these times. We are all living in very hard times and they are particularly hard for people of color I really think it is important we have some dreams we aspire to. You have to set a goal where you want to go before you know where you’re going. I feel like we all are entitled to dream big and eventually one day they will happen.

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