Judy Holliday

Introduction: After some 25 years, singer and actress Miki Howard continues to resonate passion and soul in music. With many years in the entertainment industry, Miki's latest CD, Private Collection makes the listener think of her and the CD content as similar to a collection of fine wine development. Apart from a string of Billboard R & B singles noted, and success with nominations for Grammy Awards, American Music Awards, Soul Train Music Awards and others, how many singers and actresses could withdraw portrait of the legendary Billy Holliday? Apart from Diana Ross, Miki Howard has received rave reviews in cob Lee acclaimed Oscar-nominated 1990 masterpiece, Malcolm X.

Unlike the current "Soul Revival come to the forefront of these new artists like Amy Warehouse, Donnie Rahassan Paterson, The Brand New Heavies, Gordon Chambers, Anthony Hamilton and others, Miki Howard brings not only a element of the soul to its depth voice, but she also embodies jazz, blues and best R & B today, including music from singers like Alicia Keys, Fantasia, just name a few. This all stems from Miki's early roots.
1960: Born Alicia Michelle Howard in Chicago, Illinois, she is the daughter of gospel singer Josephine Howard of the legendary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group the Caravans, and Clay Graham of the Pilgrim Jubilees. During his childhood in Chicago and Detroit, Howard met some of the best singers of the day when they visited her family. "It was nothing for me to see James Cleveland, Billy Preston, and Fats Domino in my house," she said. "I was surrounded by music all day, so I knew I wanted to sing professionally one day." Among the earliest influences of Howard were friends of the family Dinah Washington - to whom she would later be compared - and Aretha Franklin. Howard also counted Nina Simone, Shirley loosely, Lena Horne and Judy Garland among his favorite singers.

1970: Miki's family moved to Los Angeles when she was in her early teens. Already for a career in music, the 15 years Howard has earned his first stop, when she participated in a beauty contest among adolescents. Augie Johnson, leader of the adverse event group was in the audience, impressed by the talent of singing Howard, presented it to Wayne Henderson, who signed the teenager to a contract with his At Home Productions. Howard has also joined the lineup of side effects in 1978. For the next two years, Howard continued to sing with the band and choir performed as a singer of jazz studio turpentine Stanley, Wayne Henderson, Roy Ayers, Grover Washington, Jr., and Philip Bailey. Howard and Johnson also began a personal relationship that produced two children

1980: Already in demand as a vocalist, Howard also played with Side Effect on simple comic deejay Rick Dees in the early 1980s, where she credits as a catalyst for her solo career. "It has been my experience with Rick that made me want to go solo," she told the Peak Records website. "We realized at the Amphitheatre LA and I saw the dressing room marked 'star' and I was jealous and I wanted my room. "

As a solo artist as others within the confines of being in a group environment, Howard sought a solo recording contract, and around 1985, the famous Atlantic Records has Miki Howard can change lives . She recorded her first solo album Atlantic in 1986, Come share my love. His first success of the Atlantic was the album's title track, Billboard R & B top ten single "Come Share My Love," which peaked at number five. Miki followed with his second victory, a remake of Glenn Miller's 1940 tune "Imagination", which she had to fight to include in his first album.

Howard second solo album, 1988's Love Confessions, offered two.