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Congressional District Programs
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Carmen Bradford - was raised in Altadena, California and studied classical music at Huston Tillotson College in Austin, Texas. She has worked on performance and recording projects with the like of James Brown, Lou Rawls, Willie Nelson, Lena Horne, Tony Bennett, Joe Williams, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Wilson and Herbie Hancock. In the early eighties she was the vocalist for the great Count Basie's world renowned Orchestra and performed on two Grammy Award winning albums. In 1991 she performed a duet with guitarist George Benson recording the Grammy Award winning song "How Do You Keep The Music Playing?". Carmen teamed with singer Kenny Rankin for Benny Carter's Song Book Project singing "Key Largo" for the Grammy Award winning album. At present she is the featured vocalist for the Great Doc Severinsen and his orchestra; and instructor of jazz vocals at the University of Southern California; and completed a recording project for education titled "essentially Ellington," with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. Carmen's solo career includes the recording of two albums, "Finally Yours" (Evidence Records 1992) and "With Respect" (Evidence Records 1995)
