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Needs more work[edit]

Needs more info and Wikifying. Clean up tag added. A curate's egg 14:21, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Birth year?[edit]

The text says 1950, but the persondata has 1948. I've categorized the birth year as missing meanwhile. Dsp13 12:30, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I looked everywhere they say "1948" and not "1950", so I am changing it. (Trampton 09:45, 13 March 2007 (UTC)).[reply]

I've been a Patti Austin fan for 25 years. It's true that a lot of sources say 1948, it's nevertheless wrong. In an article of the "Jet Magazine" from December 2005, she is quoted "Being 55, I know how not to get stupid", and she's really not the type to lie about these kind of things. I'm changing the date back. Ebab 17:22, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It makes more sense having both data.--Engelbaet 09:19, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think so. Two birth dates for one person make no sense at all, unless there is a really compelling reason. I have given a source where Patti Austin gives her age. If you want to dispute her own statement, you should give a really good source, not just something you can find "everywhere" in the Internet. Ebab 21:38, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The mentioned article is not such a reference. There is a big uncertaincy in the assumed birth date 1950, too. Cf. Wikipedia:Verifiability.--Engelbaet 10:37, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The so-called "Love Collection"[edit]

I'm removing the reference to "Love Collection" under "Compilations", because it's not a compilation but another release of the "Street of Dreams" album, minus one track. Ebab 17:37, 17 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bob James[edit]

Patti also did vocals on Bob James' 1974 album "Two." The song is called "I Feel a Song in My Heart," and the whole album is the perfect soundtrack for strolling through Philadelphia in the rain. In my opinion, of course. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.247.166.31 (talk) 22:14, August 24, 2007 (UTC)

This is a Problem...[edit]

Why are you constantly putting peoples surnames when describing what about them? You're doing that over and over. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Celeste6566 (talk • contribs) 00:56, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Because it's clearer than just using a pronoun every time, especially when other people are mentioned in the text. —C.Fred (talk) 01:29, 2 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sources don't belong in External links- they belong here[edit]

Sources belong here until they have been used. These sources do not ever belong in External links. I have moved the link farm from there to this talk page where they do belong. Warning: I didn't check them over, so be careful in choosing any references here. Thank you! --Leahtwosaints (talk) 23:39, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This sounds like a promo blurb not an encyclopedia[edit]

This part doesn't sound like something in an encyclopedia: "... Austin remains one singer who clearly needs no such production techniques to cover a crystal clear, flexible, and knowing voice imitated by many, duplicated by none." That whole sentence is speculative and fawning. -Crunchy Numbers (talk) 15:09, 9 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Possible sources for her stage show back in 2002[edit]

I'm not sure where the best place would be to put it and I worked tech for the show so I probably shouldn't add it myself. But she wrote and starred in a show named for one of her songs around the same time she was getting back with major record labels. It was called Patti Austin: On the Way to Love and was staged during the 01-02 theatre season at the Sacramento Theatre Company, not long after the album of the same name came out. It was basically a biographical piece with music. So far as I know she never did the show anywhere else.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-aug-17-ca-35080-story.html Behind a paywall so I can't recall how much detail they went into. https://musicianguide.com/biographies/1608003993/Patti-Austin.html I don't know how reliable a source this is but in the paragraph where they talk about the show, they reference an area weekly newspaper that might work as a source. Millahnna (talk) 23:29, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Children? Personal life? Family?[edit]

Why doesn’t the article include any of this? TheGreatestLuvofAll ( chat with me ) 01:40, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ms. Austin never married and has no children, but I was confused, so now I see why people don’t have a lot of children. TheGreatestLuvofAll ( chat with me ) 01:43, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]