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          Deanie Parker's musical life began at East McLemore Avenue, the home of Stax Records, where she worked as a songwriter, singer, arranger, collaborator, and....

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          Women of Achievement
          2004

          INITIATIVE
          for a woman who seized the
          opportunity to use her talents and created her own future:

          Deanie Parker

          Deanie Parker’s life has been filled with music.

          As a child she listened to Memphis radio station WDIA. Her days brimmed over with gospel, R&B and contemporary jazz, hosted by now-legendary DJs such as Nat D. Williams and Rufus Thomas. Her grandmother always had records on the old Victrola and Deanie listened and dreamed.

          Parker, recalls what it was like to work at Satellite Records in the early days.

        1. Read all about Deanie Parker with TV Guide's exclusive biography including their list of awards, celeb facts and more at TV Guide.
        2. Deanie Parker's musical life began at East McLemore Avenue, the home of Stax Records, where she worked as a songwriter, singer, arranger, collaborator, and.
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        4. Deanie Parker is known for When Pigs Fly (), Moondog Airwaves () and I Am a Man: From Memphis, a Lesson in Life ().

          5. Always imaginative, a broomstick was her microphone. When her family moved north, she missed the music and tuned in to Nashville’s WLAC to hear the voices of the Delta. She studied piano only to be whacked on the hands for playing B.B.

          King, Chuck Jackson and other popular music by ear!

          The family returned to Memphis from southern Ohio in 1961. While attending Hamilton High School, Deanie formed a group called the Valadors and entered a talent contest at the Old Daisy Theatre on Beale.

          First prize: an audition at St