60 years after passing audition, Stax’s Deanie Parker is double Grammy nominee
Deanie Parker is a first-time and double Grammy nominee as both a producer and a notes writer for “Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos,” a seven-disc boxed set that’s up for Best Historical Album and Best Album Notes. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
After a career that shifted into marketing, publicity and non-profit management, this moment has brought Deanie Parker full circle, back to her beginnings as a singer and a songwriter.
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Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
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