Siedah Garrett was born on June 24,1960, in Los Angeles and raised in Compton, where she started singing as a child.
24 Facts About Siedah Garrett
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Siedah Garrett later changed it to Siedah, which meant "shining and star-like".
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Rogers heard Siedah Garrett's singing abilities and recruited her as a background vocalist on his 1977 album, Love, Music and Life.
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Siedah Garrett appeared as a contestant on Password Plus in 1980.
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Siedah Garrett soon began stepping out on her own as a solo artist.
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In 1987, Siedah Garrett was involved in Michael Jackson's Bad album, singing a duet with Jackson on "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" in several different languages.
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Siedah Garrett hadn't recorded anything like this to that point.
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Siedah Garrett 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".
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In 1995 Siedah Garrett was involved with Maysa Leak's solo debut album as co-writer of the track "Sexy" in which she sang backing vocals.
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Siedah Garrett 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".
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Siedah Garrett appears in the concert film "Michael Jackson Live in Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour".
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Siedah Garrett left the group in early 1998 to concentrate on her own songwriting.
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Siedah Garrett supported Madonna as a backing singer and dancer on The Re-Invention Tour in 2004.
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In 2006, Siedah 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.
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Siedah Garrett 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.
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Siedah Garrett co-wrote four songs for the 2011 film Rio, where she is a featured artist on the soundtrack on the song "Funky Monkey".
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Siedah Garrett's single "Keep On Lovin' You", a tribute to Michael Jackson and an answer to their duet I Just Can't Stop Loving You, was made available on iTunes September 11,2012.
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In 2014, Siedah Garrett was invited by producer Gerry Gallagher to record with Latin rock legends El Chicano as well as Alphonse Mouzon, Brian Auger, Alex Ligertwood, Ray Parker Jr.
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The award was presented to Siedah Garrett by recording artist Kathy Sledge of Sister Sledge.
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In 2019, Siedah Garrett attended Kingvention, the European Michael Jackson Convention which took place in Central London on September 21,2019.
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Siedah Garrett spoke about her time with Michael Jackson in a live interview with Pez Jax and performed "Man In The Mirror".
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Siedah Garrett is writing the lyrics for the upcoming Broadway musical Black Orpheus, which is based on the 1959 film Black Orpheus.
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Siedah Garrett is a part of the songwriting team alongside Stephen Bray and Brenda Russell for the upcoming 2023 film The Color Purple.
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Siedah Garrett announced that she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when performing at the "Race To Erase MS" event in 2017.