Pattie Howard (born Francine Patience Howard, April 12,

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, Ohio, United States) is an American

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and R&B Singer-Songwriter, Producer, Composer and Vocal Arranger. She is a Grammy nominated music industry veteran who has released two albums with major record labels,

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and

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. Howard, who owns her own full service entertainment company, PH Balanced Music, is also known for singing background for many major artists including

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, Gladys Knight, Brandy, Mary J Blige, Fantasia, Queen LaTifah, Madonna, Rick Astley,

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, Curtis Stiger, Lisa Stansfield, BeBe and CeCe Winans, Reba Rambo, and Diana Ross. She has dozens of gold and platinum albums to her credits encompassing artists from almost every genre. Howard landed one of her most profound gigs traveling the world with

from 1992 to 2001, at the height of her career, The Bodyguard Era. During the early 2000s, Howard returned to songwriting, music production, mixing, and mastering and is currently singing (solo & background), composing, arranging and producing various artists/bands. In 2016 Pattie released 2 singles through her record label PH Balanced Music. "Jesus Is His Name" introduces Pattie's daughter Shekinah Nicole Howard in a contemporary gospel duet produced by Wow Jones and co produced by Pattie Howard. The second single titled "Feel Me, Heal Me" was also Produced by Wow Jones, written and arranged by Pattie Howard. Pattie Howard is featured in the Nick Broomfield Documentary Whitney Houston "Can I Be Me".

Early life

Howard, coming from a musical family, began studying violin at age seven and wrote her first composition, winning first place in the Cleveland public school classical competition citywide in her first year. Her mother, Sarah Howard Mayes played piano and was a member of several female gospel groups in her early years and her father, the late Rev. Frank Love also traveled as a gospel quartet singer. Pattie's brother, Michael Howard toured the world with Zola Taylor and The Platters, and her sister Sharlene Grahm-Hairston was well known in the gospel community for her rich contralto voice, singing with The Aaron Holbrook Singers and The James Wade Singers of Cleveland Ohio. Pattie recorded her first song at age 13 as a lead singer in the gospel group "All God's Children" along with her sister Sederia "CD" Graves and began singing professionally at age 17, traveling worldwide with various major artists. At the age of 19, Pattie formed her first band with the help of her sister and Manager Eva Brown called Pattie Love and Fun, in Los Angeles California. It was during this time that her writing and arrangement skills surfaced again, and her career as a solo artist began to emerge. Her first solo recording was entitled "Second Thoughts". Many of Howard's earlier credits are listed as "Francine Howard" before she settled on the stage name of "Pattie Howard".

Music career

RCA records

In 1985, Pattie came to the attention of Lonnie Simmons, President of Total Experience/RCA Records, home of legendary artists The Gap Band, Yarborough and Peoples, and Penny Ford. Mr. Simmons offered Pattie Howard a recording contract to produce and record her self-titled debut album- ''Pattie Howard'', a collection of the first songs ever written and produced by Ms. Howard. "Selfish", was the first single released from ''Pattie Howard''.

Light records

In 1991, after catching the attention of then-president

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, Howard was offered another major record deal. Howard released her second album, ''The Vision'', on

, which at the time was home to

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. The album was co-produced by Grammy Award winning Gospel Legend

and

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who is known for his work with singer

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Tours and current events

Shortly after ''The Vision'' was released, Pattie was hired to tour the world with singer

on The Bodyguard World Tour. She continued to tour with Houston and other artists throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.

Discography

Solo

*''Pattie Howard'' – 1985 RCA *''The Vision'' – 1991 Light Records *"Jesus Is His Name Featuring Shekinah Nicole" – 2016 PH Balanced Music *"Heal Me" – 2016 PH Balanced Music

Studio sessions

Under the name Francine Howard *

- Bad (1987) *

- Man in the Mirror (1988) *

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- Laura Branigan (1990) *

- Dangerous (1990) *

- History (1995) Under the name Pattie Howard *

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- Non Stop (1988) *

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- Back on the Block (1989) *

- Finally (1990) *

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- Good Woman (1991) *

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- Can You Stop The Rain (1991) *

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- 25th Anniversary Album (1991) *

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- Curtis Stigers (1991) *

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- Greatest Hits (1991) *

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- En Alabanza (1992) *

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- In the Storm (1992) *

- With All My Heart (1992) *

- Mercy (1994) *

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& Donny McGuire- Suddenly (1994) *

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- Smooth (1994) * Madonna- Like A Prayer (1995) *

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- Strano il Mio Destiny (1996) *Ed Montgomery- I Still Believe (2000) *The Dreamers- They Sound Like Angels(2001) *

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- Life and Love (2002) *

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- Real (2002) *David & Lisa Binion- Sound of Heaven, Vol.1 (2003) *Judith McAllister- Raise the Praise (2003) *

- Power of Praise (2003) *

- Mighty Wind (2005) *Ruth Ann Galatas- Favorite Things (2006) *Ruth Ann Galatas- Piano Lady (2007) *

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- The Healing Song (2009)

Tours and performances

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Various Performances *

Tours *

- Grammy Awards Man in the Mirror *

- The Bodyguard World Tour 1993–1994 *

- Whitney: The Concert for a New South Africa 1994 * Grammy Awards * Giorgia Tour – 1995 *

Pacific Rim Tour The Pacific Rim Tour was a concert tour of arenas and stadiums by American Pop/ R&B singer Whitney Houston. The tour included 10 concert dates in Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Australia and United States in 1997. The tour was in support of her 19 ...

1997 *

Classic Whitney Live from Washington, D.C. Classic Whitney: Live from Washington, D.C., were live concerts by Whitney Houston. The concerts were held at historic DAR Constitution Hall in Washington D.C. on October 3 and 5, 1997. The second-night concert was broadcast live via HBO, which w ...

- The European Tour 1998 *

My Love Is Your Love World Tour The My Love Is Your Love World Tour (advertised as World Tour 1999) was the eighth concert tour by American recording artist Whitney Houston. The tour was in support of her fourth album, '' My Love Is Your Love'' (1998). Beginning in the summer o ...

1999 * VH1 Divas Live *

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- Fantasia Burrino *

Ethan Bortnick Ethan Jordan Bortnick (born December 24, 2000) is an American pianist, singer, songwriter, record producer, musician and actor. He has been featured on ''The Tonight Show'', ''Oprah Winfrey Network'', ''Good Morning America'', Disney Channel, Ni ...

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Special 2010 *

Special 2013

References

External links

PH Balanced Music
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