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Raise Your Spirit Consciousness

By Jay Hoggard

Label: JHVM
Released: 2023
Track listing: Holy Spirit Consciousness; Peace to You My Children; I Want Love, I Don't Want Hate; Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing; Bird of Beauty;Toe Dance for a Baby; In the Beginning / Praise God; Worship God in Spirt, Truth, and Love; Deluge; Both Feet on the Ground; A Child Is Born; Primordial Aqua Mist,

Nat Adderley, Jr.

Born: May 23, 1955

Nat Adderley, Jr. is an American pop and rhythm and blues music arranger and pianist who spent much of his music career arranging as music director for Luther Vandross tours and contributed as co-songwriter on most of Vandross's albums. His father Nat Adderley (1931–2000) was a composer and jazz cornet and trumpet player, while his uncle Cannonball Adderley (1928–1975) was a jazz alto saxophonist.

Nat Adderley, Jr. was born in Quincy, Florida on May 23, 1955. The scion of a famed jazz family, he grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, moving to that suburban New York City community with his family when he was five years old. He started playing piano as a child and had his first song, "I'm on My Way", recorded by his uncle Cannonball on the 1967 album Why Am I Treated So Bad! by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet when the young Nat Adderley was only 11 years old. It was at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City that Adderley first met fellow student Luther Vandross, with whom he would later spend much of his musical career. He attended Yale University, graduating with a degree in African American studies.