Jennifer Warnes

Jennifer Jean Warnes born March 3 1947 is an American singer and songwriter She has performed as a vocalist on a number of film soundtracks She has won two Grammy Awards in 1983 for the Joe Cocker duet Up Where We Belong and in 1987 for the Bill Medley duet Ive Had The Time of My Life Warnes also collaborated closely with Leonard Cohen Warnes was born on March 3 1947 in Seattle Washington but raised in Anaheim California Her desire and ability to sing came early at age seven she was offered her first recording contract which her father declined She sang in church and local pageants until age 17 when Warnes was offered an opera scholarship to Immaculate Heart College She was so committed to her Catholic faith that for a while she entered a convent after graduating from high school Warnes chose to sing folk music as it became popularized by Joan Baez in the mid1960s In 1968 after a few years with musical theatre and clubs she signed with Parrot Records a London Records subsidiary and recorded her first album That year she joined the cast of the television show The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour Early in her career industry advisors suggested Warnes change her name to Warren but then realized that there was already an actress named Jennifer Warren so she performed briefly as simply Jennifer though she was credited as Jennifer Warren when she provided duet vocals for singerguitarist Mason Williams on his 1968 album The Mason Williams Ear Show Soon however she returned to her birth name In November 1968 Warnes as Jennifer Warren portrayed the female lead in the Los Angeles California production of the stage musical Hair She had a related UK single release as Jennifer on London HLU 10278 in June 1969 with Let The Sunshine In and Easy to Be Hard licensed from the US Parrot label In 1971 Warnes met Canadian songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen and the two remained friends She toured Europe with Cohens band in 1972 and 1979 first as a backup singer and then as a vocal arranger and guest singer on Cohens albums Live Songs 1973 Recent Songs 1979 Various Positions 1985 Im Your Man 1988 The Future 1992 Field Commander Cohen Tour of 1979 2001 and Old Ideas 2012 Warnes later 1987 recorded a critically acclaimed audiophile album of Cohen songs Famous Blue Raincoat In 1972 Warnes released her third album Jennifer which was produced by John Cale It was unavailable after the LP was deleted until it was finally reissued in Japan in 2013 Reprise WPCR14865 In 1976 Warnes released the album Jennifer Warnes Arista 4062 which contained her breakthrough single Right Time of the Night which hit number 1 on Billboards Easy Listening Adult Contemporary chart in April 1977 and number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in May 1977 Warnes recorded the song It Goes Like It Goes for the 1979 motion picture Norma Rae The song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song Her 1979 single I Know A Heartache When I See One was a Top 10 Country hit and reached the Top 20 on both the Pop and Adult Contemporary charts Source Article Jennifer Warnes from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30