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Lonette McKee's career began in the music business in Detroit, Michigan as a child prodigy, where she started writing music/lyrics, singing, playing keyboards and performing at the age of seven. At fourteen, she recorded her first record, which became an instant regional Pop/R&B hit. McKee wrote the title song for the film Quaroon when she was fifteen. She had written and produced three solo LPs, the most recent, "Natural Love", for Spike Lee's Columbia 40 Acres and A Mule lable. McKee scored the music for the well-received cable documentary on the lower Manhattan African Burial Ground, as well as numerous informercials. She had tour extensively throughout the world in concert performances, including the JVC Jazz Festival at Carnegie Hall. McKee continues to write and produce music, as well as mentor and help young musical talent. She offers consultation and coaching to young performers. She appeared on Broadway in the most recent revival of the musical Show Boat, which co-starred old time stage and musical actors Elaine Stritch and John McMartin. Broadway theatre is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... Show Boat is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II (with the notable exception of Bill, the lyrics of which were written by P. G. Wodehouse). ... Elaine Stritch, (born on February 2, 1925 in Detroit, Michigan) is a tall, lanky American actress and singer with a rough voice known for her brash, vocal characters. ...

Her feature film credits include; Sparkle (1976), Cuba (1979), Which Way is Up (1977) and Brewstar's Millions (1985) - both opposite the legendary Richard Pryor; The Cotton Club (1984) and Gardens of Stone (1987) for Frances Ford Coppola; Lift (2001), for which she earned a Black Reel nomination. Other films include Honey (2003), Men of Honor (2000), Round Midnight (1986) for the great filmaker Bertrand Tavenier Jungle Fever (1991) Malcolm X (1992) He Got Game (1998) and She Hate Me for Spike Lee. Television miniseries and films include, The Women of Brewster Place (1989), for which she received an NAACP nomination, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters First 100 Years (1999), Queen (1993) with Halle Berry, To Dance with Olivia (1997) and For Love of Olivia (2001) - both opposite Louis Gossett Jr. for CBS Television Network and Blind Faith for Showtime Cable Network. Lonette also received an NAACP nomination for her appearances on the long-running CBS soap opera As The World Turns. Sparkle is a 1976 blaxploitation film directed by Sam OSteen and released by Warner Bros. ... Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American comedian, actor, and writer. ... The Cotton Club is a movie, released in 1984, centered around a popular real-life Harlem jazz club in the 1930s, the Cotton Club. ... Honey honey comb A capped frame of honeycomb Honey is a sweet and viscous fluid produced by bees and other insects from the nectar of flowers. ... DVD case cover for Men of Honor Men of Honor is a 2000 drama film, directed by George Tillman, Jr. ... Round Midnight is a 1986 film directed by Bertrand Tavernier that tells the story of a tenor saxophone player in Paris in the 1950s who is befriended by a poor Frenchman who idolizes the musician and tries to help him to get out of his life of alcohol abuse. ... Jungle Fever is a 1991 film directed by Spike Lee, starring Wesley Snipes and Annabella Sciorra. ... Malcolm X is a 1992 dramatic movie directed by Spike Lee about the African-American activist and Black nationalist Malcolm X. The story is based on The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley. ... Poster of movie He Got Game is a 1998 film directed by Spike Lee starring Denzel Washington and Ray Allen as a father and son trying to reconcile on the eve of the sons graduation from high school and under pressure to decide which college basketball scholarship offer he... She Hate Me is a 2004 Spike Lee film. ... Spike Lee Shelton Jackson Lee (born March 20, 1957), better known as Spike Lee, is a controversial film director, producer, writer, and actor noted for his many films dealing with social and political issues. ... Gloria Naylors first novel The Women of Brewster Place was released as a made-for-television film in 1989. ... The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States. ... Queen: the story of an American family by Alex Haley and David Stevens is a partly factual historical novel which has served to bring back to the consciousness of many White Americans the plight of the Children of the Plantation - the offspring of black slave women and their white masters... Halle Berry on the cover of Vogue (Dec 2002). ... Louis Gossett Jr. ... For other uses, see CBS (disambiguation). ... The cover of the bands only album, Blind Faith The alternate cover of the bands only album, Blind Faith Blind Faith was a band formed in late 1968 when Eric Clapton (ex-Cream) and Steve Winwood (ex-Traffic) were at a loose end following the demise of their... This article needs to be updated. ... The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States. ... For other uses, see CBS (disambiguation). ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... As the World Turns (ATWT) is the second longest-running American television soap opera, airing each weekday on CBS. It debuted on Monday, April 2, 1956 at 1:30 in the afternoon. ...

Recently, Lonette did a recurring role on the NBC hit drama Third Watch. She was recognized in People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful" issue. She studied film directing at The New School in New York and apprenticed film directing with Spike Lee. She teaches a master acting workshop at Centenary College in New Jersey, where she serves as an adjunct professor in the theater arts department. Lonette is currently producing her first film Dream Street with Spike Lee, which she wrote and will direct. NBC, formerly called the National Broadcasting Company, is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Third Watch was an NBC television drama that ran from 1999 to 2005. ... The New School, previously known as New School University, is an institution of higher learning in New York City. ... Centenary College is a private college affiliated with the United Methodist Church and located in Hackettstown, New Jersey. ... Dream Street was the name of a teen bubblegum pop group from 2000 - 2002. ...

External links

• Lonette McKee at the Internet Movie Database