About Theresa Hightower

In 1980 Theresa Hightower was named Atlantas top Female Vocalist by Top Star Awards. She was honored again in 1992 as Top Jazz Musician in Atlanta by Creative Loafing Entertainment Magazine. Ms. Hightower has appeared in a number of film and television roles, including the TV movie Made in Heaven and the series In the Heat of the Night. She has toured with national productions of W.C. Handy Blues, Blues to Broadway, and Queen of the Blues An Evening with Dinah Washington, in which she portrayed the legendary singer.

Currently enjoying a long-term engagement at Atlantas Ritz-Carlton Hotel Buckhead, she served four years as executive secretary on the Board of Governors of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and the Grammy Awards. Also, receiving the Angel of Music Award 2001 from the New Thought Theological Seminary and The Women In Entertainment Award 2003, from AKA Sorority.

She currently appears on the newly released CD The Full Moon of Sonia, by the world renowned Sonia Sanchez. Theresa's CD titled Multifaceted is available at cdbaby.com/thightower.