In addition, Garrett's 1988 solo album Kiss Of Life includes "Baby's Got It Bad", a version of Jackson's "Got The Hots" with rewritten lyrics. Affectionately dubbed "Sid" by Quincy Jones, she co-wrote the hit songs " Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me)" (originally an instrumental tune by The Brothers Johnson to which she added lyrics), "Back On The Block", and " The Secret Garden (Sweet Seduction Suite)", in addition to performing lead vocals for "I Don't Go for That", "One Man Woman" and "The Places You Find Love", all on Jones' Grammy Award-winning 1989 Back on the Block album. Garrett's association with Jackson enabled her to sing on several Quincy Jones albums of the 1980s and 1990s. She 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". A gifted musical sight reader with perfect vocal pitch (as most session vocalists are), the initial duet for "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" came as a total surprise to Garrett who simply answered the call expecting to only appear as a background vocalist. Garrett and Jackson recorded a Spanish version of "I Just Can't Stop Loving You", titled "Todo Mi Amor Eres Tu" (translated to "All My Love Is You"), as well as a French version titled "Je Ne Veux Pas La Fin De Nous", during the same recording sessions for the "Bad" album. It was a huge privilege for me when Quincy decided that the song was good enough to play for Michael." First of all, I need to send it through Quincy because if Quincy didn't like it there is no way that Michael would've ever heard it. I was just taking the risk that he might not get it, you know. He hadn't recorded anything like this to that point. It had to be a little bit more than that. In a 2013 interview with Luka Neskovic, Garrett said: "All I wanted to do was give Michael something he would want to say to the world, and I knew it couldn't be another 'Oh baby, I love you' song. In 1987, Garrett was involved in Michael Jackson's Bad album, singing a duet with Jackson on the number one single " I Just Can't Stop Loving You" and co-writing and singing backing vocals on another number one, " Man in the Mirror". In the mid-1980s, she also toured and recorded with Sergio Mendes, appearing on three of his albums. The latter song went to No. 1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. Her hits include " Don't Look Any Further" with Dennis Edwards (No. 72 pop, No. 2 R&B in 1984) " Do You Want It Right Now?" in 1985 from the Fast Forward soundtrack (No. 3 Hot Dance Music/Club Play and No. 63 R&B), which was covered by Taylor Dayne in 1988 and later covered by Armand Van Helden in 2007 under the title "I Want Your Soul" "Everchanging Times" from the movie Baby Boom (No. 30 on the Adult Contemporary chart in 1987), and " K.I.S.S.I.N.G." (No. 97 in 1988). She soon began stepping out on her own as a solo artist. Later, she joined the soul/funk outfit Plush, who released their self-titled album in 1982 on RCA Records. Siedah Garrett appeared as a contestant on Password Plus in 1980. Rogers heard Garrett's singing abilities and recruited her as a background vocalist on his 1977 album, Love, Music and Life. Garrett's mother was an interior designer who had singer D.J. As a teenager, Garrett was part of a five piece band called Black Velvet & Satin Soul, which performed Top 40 hits around various clubs. She later changed it to Siedah, which meant "shining and star-like". It was always abbreviated to Deb, Debbie, or DeeDee. Garrett said, "It's a pretty name but nobody called me Deborah. Born Deborah Christine Garrett, she opted to change her name at age 13, because of the disdain she had towards her birth name. Garrett was born on June 24, 1960, in Los Angeles and raised in Compton, where she started singing as a child. Garrett has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Original Song, and won the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards for co-writing " Love You I Do" (performed by Jennifer Hudson) for the 2006 musical film, Dreamgirls. Deborah Christine " Siedah" Garrett (born June 24, 1960) is an American singer and songwriter who has written songs and performed backing vocals for many recording artists in the music industry, such as Michael Jackson, the Pointer Sisters, Brand New Heavies, Quincy Jones, Tevin Campbell, Donna Summer, Madonna, Jennifer Hudson among others.
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