DOROTHY MOORE
Four Time Grammy Nominated Legend
DOROTHY MOORE
Recent Performances
*The Life and Career of Dorothy Moore, Millsaps Arts & Lecture Series, Feb. 2020
*2020 - Headliner on the Mississippi Stage at the Chicago Blues Festival
* David Gest's Soul Legends The Legacy Tour In the UK
*The Valentine's Day Super Love Jam- California
*Mississippi Governors Inaugural Ball
* Thacker Mountain Radio -Live Show
*2nd Sat Live @ Claude Gentry Theater
*Kingston, Jamaica Live Show
*Jamaica Day, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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EXCITING NEWS! Four time Grammy-nominee Dorothy Moore will release her new album March 29, 2020. The album will be released on her label
Farish Street Records of Mississippi.
I’M HAPPY WITH THE ONE I’VE GOT NOW
This is an exciting and dynamite album.
Producer Dorothy Moore, Arranger, Kimble Funchess, Recorded and Mixed at Hummingbird Recording Studios, Vicksburg Mississippi by Buzz Pickens and Kimble Slaton and mastered by L Nix Mastering.
I'M HAPPY WITH THE ONE I'VE GOT NOW
Dorothy Moore will release another fantastic album “Happy with the One I Got Now” March 29, 2020. Dorothy Moore has a history of releasing great albums. In 2013 her album “Blues Heart” was nominated for a Blues Music Award for Soul Blues Album of the Year. She also received Blues Music Award nominations for Soul Blues Female Artist in 2013, 2014, and 2016. Dorothy Moore has released over 15 albums. Dorothy is also a four time Grammy-nominee. Her Misty Blues album has been listened to over 5.7 million times on YouTube and over 1.1 million times on Spotify. She performs rhythm’n blues, soul, and gospel. Dorothy is Moore is a national and international performing legend.
Nominations for Blues Music Awards
2016 37th Blues Music Awards
Soul Blues Female Artist
2014 35th Blues Music Awards
Soul Blues Female Artist
2013 34th Blues Music Awards
Soul Blues Female Artist
2013 34th Blues Music Awards
Dorothy Moore Soul Blues Album “Blues Heart”
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Dorothy Moore’s Misty Blue is still is on the top of the charts in the UK and has sold millions worldwide.
RECORDINGS
1966: Lullaby of Love (Epic)
1976: Misty Blue (Malaco) - U.S. #29, R&B #10
1977: Dorothy Moore (Malaco) - US #120, R&B #26
1978: Once Moore with Feeling (Malaco)
1979: Definitely Dorothy (Malaco)
1980: Talk To Me (Epic)
1984: Just Another Broken Heart (Streetking)
1986: I'm Givin' It Straight To You (Rejoice) - Gospel #23
1988: Time Out for Me (Volt)
1989: Winner (Volt)
1990: Feel the Love (Malaco) - R&B #49
1991: Talk to Me (Malaco)
1992: Stay Close to Home (Malaco)
1996: Misty Blue & Other Hits (Malaco)
1996: More of Moore (Malaco)
1998: Songs to Love By (601)
2002: Please Come Home For Christmas (Farish Street)
2005: I'm Doing Alright (Farish Street)
2005: Gittin' Down Live (Farish Street)
2012: Blues Heart (Farish Street)[4]
CONTACTS
RADIO PROMOTION & PUBLICITY
Mississippi Delta Blues, Inc. Carol Marble, President deltablues@bellsouth.net
EXCLUSIVE BOOKING
Peggy Brown, CEO Hit the Road Entertainment: htrprb@gmail.com
HONORS
Dorothy Moore has several BLUES MUSIC AWARDS
2013, 2014, & 2016
She received the JAMES BROWN HERITAGE JUS' BLUES AWARD 2009
The 1996 MISSISSIPPI GOVERNOR’S AWARD for Excellence in the Arts
The NATRA Female R&B Vocalist of the Year
She has been inducted into the MISSISSIPPI MUSICIANS HALL OF FAME.
She has received a LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD from the Monterey Bay Blues Festival.
She is on noted on several Mississippi Blues Markers and on one Country Music Marker.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Dorothy Moore’s early chart toppers were Misty Blue, Funny How Time Slips Away, I Believe You, For Old Time Sake and With Pen in Hand.
Misty Blue climbed the US charts to number one for R&B and to number one single in the UK. It went gold in Canada and has sold millions worldwide. Misty Blue went platinum for the soundtrack of Phenomenon (1996), movie starring John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, and Forest Whitaker. Her song is also played in Black or White with Kevin Costner (2015), Made of Honor (2008), Jesus’ Son (2000), and on the small screen in a Sopranos episode (2004).
I Believe You, released in 1977, earned Dorothy Moore one of Record World’s Top Female Vocalists of the year. The song made the number one single R&B and the top 10 single in the US, and went to number one single in the UK.
Dorothy Moore started her own label in 2002, Farish Street Records of Mississippi, for which she has recorded four albums, the last being Blues Heart. She served on the Board of the Blues Foundation, Memphis, for six years and was the chair of the Hart Fund for which she still volunteers actively.
She has performed on stage with Lou Rawls, Al Green, B.B. King, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Ben E. King, Eddie Floyd… She has also appeared on prestigious shows, including Soul Train and The Midnight Special. She has toured internationally to Japan, Jamaica, Switzerland and the UK for three trips, continuing to wow fans with her gospel —”I have been singing gospel practically all my life, and I never have really left it. I really love singing gospel”—, with her new music, and with her classic Misty Blue.