Nita Whitaker

Vocalist Nita Whitaker was raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, the youngest of four kids. Her dad, Green Whitaker, was a vocalist with the Religious Jubilee vocal group. In her youngsters, she produced a gospel group with her two sisters, the Whitaker Sisters. She examined classical tone of voice while participating in Northeast Louisiana School, that she graduated using a B.S. level in nursing. She gained the name of Miss Louisiana in 1984. Shifting to LA, where she wedded session vocalist Don LaFontaine and became mom of two daughters, she gained Star Search Television amateur competition for 13 consecutive weeks, producing her among the show’s grand champions. She was an associate from the vocal group Following Millennium, which got so far as an Atlantic Information agreement and an unreleased record before splitting up. Her overall performance on the demo saving of “I, WHO’VE Nothing at all” for Whitney Houston resulted in a short appearance within the 1992 film The Bodyguard. She produced other small film and tv appearances while taking pleasure in more prominent tasks in stage musicals such as for example touring businesses of Sweeney Todd and Ragtime, and a Broadway-bound display in line with the tunes of Gamble & Huff, Me and Mrs. Jones, where she starred as Mrs. Jones, and which premiered in Philadelphia in 2001. Whitaker documented a self-titled debut recording in 1994 and adopted it with One Tone of voice, released in 2001.