Biography

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Rita Graham has a storied Career. She has been an actress, author, teacher, and choreographer for movies but she is best known as a singer. She was one of multiple Grammy award-winning NAACP, Kennedy Center award-winning, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member) Ray Charles Raelettes. In fact, she was the only Raelette that Ray Charles produced an album on and released on his own record label. A song she recorded in 1966 has been on the Northern Soul Charts in the UK for 5 decades. She has performed with Ray Charles, Oscar Peterson, The Harry James, and Duke Ellington Orchestras. She has performed in Festivals, Night Clubs, Casinos, and Concert Venues all across the globe.

Rita Graham’s career as a jazz vocalist was jump-started when Ray Charles produced an album of lush standards for her in 1969. The album, ‘Rita Graham Vibrations’ is the only album project that Ray Charles personally produced for a single female artist on his own Tangerine Record Label.

After a stint as a Ray Charles Raelette, Rita recorded several single recordings with TV Composer, Mike Post (Law and Order, Hill Street Blues, A-Team, etc). She was featured vocalist with The Harry James Orchestra for 3 years, and with Mercer Ellington and the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Tour ‘82.  She was a featured artist with Oscar Peterson, Ray Charles, and comedian Redd Foxx, and others. She has performed in Festivals, Night Clubs, Casinos, and Concert Venues in Las Vegas, Canada, The UK, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, Manila, Bangkok, and Russia. She originated the role of Coretta Scott King in the Civil Rights Theater Musical, ‘Selma’, produced by Redd Foxx Productions in Los Angeles, and off Broadway’s New Federal Theatre, produced by Woodie King, Jr.

As the lead vocalist in Rita and The Tiaras, Ms. Graham recorded the UK Northern Soul Hit Classic, ‘Gone With The Wind Is My Love’. The Tiaras were studio singers whom Rita never met. A track from the Vibrations album, ‘My Cup Runneth Over With Love’ is also a Northern Soul Hit.

From 1999-2009, Ms. Graham was known as ‘The First Lady Of Sambuca Jazz Café’, Atlanta’s premiere Showroom, where the CD, ‘Rita Graham Live at Sambuca Atlanta’ was recorded. (Available upon request) She performs in concert in the Sammy Blue/Rita Graham Classic Blues Duo and with ‘The All-Star Georgia Music Revue’, founded by Blues Legend, Sammy Blue.

Rita Graham’s suspense/murder mystery novel, ‘Karma Rising’ is available on Amazon.com, Kindle, Nook, and other Booksellers, and is soon to be a feature film.

The feature film, Karma Rising, adapted from the suspense/mystery novel by Rita Graham (amazon.com, Kindle) will be released in 2018.

Rita is a Board member of Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc. and she teaches voice at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA.

Original Songs by Rita Graham Released by Loveforce International Records:

(with links to key streaming services under selected recordings)

With You In My Life

Gift of Love

Gift of Love (Remix) (Soul Ballad, Christmas Anthem)

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ritagraham/gift-of-love-remix

Take Me To Paradise (Piano Vocal) (Jazz-Soul Ballad)

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ritagraham/you-take-me-to-paradise 

*Wonder Worker-You Take Me To Paradise Bonus Version (Jazz-Soul Ballads) 

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ritagraham/wonder-worker

*Special Release for downloading contains a bonus song. 

Night Song   (Jazzy R&B)

 https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ritagraham/night-song

Sitting in Boston (R&B Pop)

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ritagraham/sittin-in-boston

         Rita Graham is a proud member of the Affiliated Independent Recording Creators Organization (AIRCO).