Rita Coolidge
Rita Coolidge
Rita Coolidgeis an American recording artist and songwriter. During the 1970s and 1980s, she charted hits on Billboard's pop, country, adult contemporary and jazz charts and won two Grammy Awards with fellow musician and former husband Kris Kristofferson...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth1 May 1945
CountryUnited States of America
player thinking challenges
I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.
records firsts jazz
I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.
jazz
I've always loved jazz.
records want jazz
I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.
people friendly records
Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people have been. A lot of the people I've talked to like the record.
heart my-heart concerts
I say what's in my heart, and I do it in my concerts.
thinking singers cabaret
I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.
song grandmother my-grandmother
My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.
song people singers
I was kind of known as a ballad singer. People would send ballads. Some of them would go over my shoulder and float off the top of my head, and I just didn't feel anything. Then I would hear a song that would absolutely shake me.
thinking radio jazz
I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.
jazz mathematical cerebral
It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.
player information different
I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.
funny humor opportunity
Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.
heart awareness my-heart
I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.