Opening 2012 at the SpokenWord Cafe

Posted by admin on Jan 2, 2012

2012 Pow­er­house Duo opens Cafe

Fatima Wash­ing­ton at the Acoustic Spo­ken­Word Cafe

Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 14 the Acoustic Spo­ken­Word Cafe opens the sea­son with two incred­i­ble Fort Wayne tal­ents: the allur­ing Fatima Wash­ing­ton, and the dynamic Afrodisiacs.

Fatima opens Spo­ken­Word Cafe

“Before fame, pho­tographs, and tabloids, there is tal­ent.  And Wash­ing­ton has it — the kid of voice the ear fol­lows through wind­ing scales…It’s both soft and pow­er­ful filled with the echoes of R&B and soul pio­neers such as Aretha Franklin and Patti LaBelle.” –Emma Downs, The Jour­nal Gazette

She’s a reg­u­lar at Blu Tomato. She’s opened for nation­ally known acts. Now, the allur­ing ly soul­ful Fatima Wash­ing­ton is bring­ing her voice and charisma to the Acoustic Spo­ken­Word Cafe, in down­town Fort Wayne.

After tak­ing off four years to attend col­lege, Fatima made up her mind to pur­sue music full time.  At home in Fort Wayne, Indi­ana, Fatima started singing back­ground vocals on var­i­ous stu­dio record­ings for Sweet­wa­ter Sound.  Most recently, Fatima has opened for Bobby Valentino, the SOS Band, Adina Howard, The Whis­pers, Paul Anka, Ty Causey, and sung along­side Tony Award win­ner Heather Headley.  Addi­tion­ally, Fatima has toured New York, Cal­i­for­nia, Chicago, Atlanta, and var­i­ous parts of Europe, includ­ing Paris, leav­ing indeli­ble marks at every event.

 Fatima recently released the first sin­gle, Fool for Love, off of her yet to be titled debut CD.  Fatima has a strong hand in the evo­lu­tion of her CD work­ing with pro­duc­ers such as Michael John­son, DJ Polaris, and Eclipse. 

 In a short time, Fatima has gone from just another young per­former to hav­ing her own night at The Blu Tomato every Sat­ur­day, Fri­days at The Legion Post 148, local recog­ni­tion, and this is only the begin­ning.  “Fatima Wash­ing­ton was once shy.  You’d never know it to see her on stage now… to hear her these days is to real­ize that the wall­flower has most cer­tainly bloomed.”  (Sean Smith, Fort Wayne Reader).    With the tal­ent that she pos­sesses this singer/songwriter is well on her way to suc­cess in the music indus­try.  She’s just wait­ing to be in the right place at the right time doing the right thing in front of the right people.

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