Singer, songwriter, actress: Patti Rayne has been many people in many cities. Originally from Louisiana, Patti has been exploring sound and stage in Houston, New York, Boston and now Los Angeles. In Houston, she was the girl who sang the national anthem for 16,000 in the Summit for more than a dozen Rockets basketball games preceding their championship victories! She won several small awards for songwriting, including Best Folk Solo Artist from the Houston Press and she'll never forget a $3,000 Karaoke championship victory ... but she'll sure try.
She was also in two movies ("E.L.M." and "Mock This"),Plus a commercial, and
several plays.
One day, Patti went to a musical theatre audition in New York for a new play, "Don't Tell Mama," and landed one of the lead roles! It just so happened that the play would premiere in Houston and later move on to Los Angeles,
taking Patti with it. Backstage magazine raved about her performance:
"Rayne has a clear, strong voice that swells with emotional vulnerability..."
The play left L.A.; she stayed and the song "Dandelion" was born -- a metaphor for love in that the flower seems so fragile and temporary when it is blown away, yet it proves to be eternal and strong because the fragments are
carried to new places to start again and again.
"Dandelion" won first prize in the H.A.R.C. foundation's National
Songwriting Contest as recently announced in Billboard magazine.
Patti is currently working on several projects:
Self-produced titled demo, "Looks Like Rayne"
Session singer for soundtracks for film and television
