Some 70′s soul from Quilli this week…
Kellee Patterson’s rise into the public eye came in 1971 when she was the first black girl to become Miss Indiana when she entered the Miss America pageant with merits for her singing talents. Her singing started professionally when she was just 16 and following the sucess in the Miss America pageant she toured the world where she both sung and gave speeches. Kellee broke into TV to host Harambee in Chicago and continued on with her singing career later when she moved to the West Coast.
Kellee’s second album ‘Kellee’ was a collection of cover versions on Hubub Records in 1976. It showed the first signs of her transgression to the disco movement and contains this amazing cover version of the Barry White classic, I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little More, Baby
And the Barry White version…
