Freda Payne Releases New Single “Do You Still Dream About Me?”

Freda Payne Releases New Single “Do You Still Dream About Me?”

(Los Angeles, California- December 9) – At 80 years old Freda Payne shows no sign of slowing down. She is releasing a new single, “Do You Still Dream About Me?”. The song is from her 1990 album “A Lady With A Song”.

About Freda Payne
Stardom for Payne began when she signed with Invictus Records, ran by her old Detroit friends, Brian Holland, Edward Holland, Jr. and Lamont Dozier (formerly of Motown) in1969. Payne’s smash single “Band of Gold” in 1970 was ranked #1 in the U.K. and #3 in the U.S.A., her first gold record. Other hits included “Deeper and Deeper”, “You Brought Me Joy” and the anti-war, “Bring the Boys Home”. As her star kept rising, Payne appeared in television specials and toured Europe and Japan.

Although she left Invictus in1973, to date she has recorded 21 albums including several remakes of “Band of Gold”. In1974, she made the cover of Jet magazine after she was dubbed a Dame of Malta, by the Knights of Malta and the Sovereign Military and Hospital Order of St. John of Jerusalem by the Prince of Romania.

Payne hosted Todays Black Woman, a talk show, in 1980 – 81 before joining the cast of Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies in 1982. She also starred in productions of Ain’t Misbehavin’ with Della Reese, The Blues in the Night, Jellies Last Jam with Gregory Hines and Savion Glover into the 1990’s. Payne film appearances include: Private Obsession, Sprung, Ragdoll, The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps and Fire and Ice.

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Olivia LONG