I couldn’t really play that well either at that age, but I could play by ear. I never could play like how I wanted. You hear about kids who were little prodigies and they would play and you’d go Wow! I can still only play and you know, doodle around or whatever.I remember a time when Phil Collins was at our house, because I used to love Phil Collins. I loved Darryl Hall and John Oates, too. But I loved Phil Collins’s voice and so I think when my dad started working with Phil and he was in the house, I was pretty glad.
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Lamont Dozier: I really though that if Beau had the gift or the calling, I was not going to discourage that. Because I don’t think I ever had what they say is the gift or the calling. I just sort of kept on working at it. When I was a young kid about nine-years-old, I had a little red wagon. Back east in Detroit.
I used to go to the A&P and ask people to help them to their car, like help take their groceries to the car for a tip.
There are some kids that like to sit in the front row. Here I am, nine or 10-yearsold, just watching My Fair Lady. Just watching. And it made me feel like I was in that movie with all those people and I was loving every bit of it. But what it did, really, was give me such a charge. I knew then that I wanted to be somehow or other in the entertainment field, music or movies. So with my records and my memories of these movies, I sort of started out a career.
Beyonce Knowles, the newly married Destiny's Child star, has added Beau Dozier to the list of A-List musicians, backing her on the follow-up to "B'Day", which is due for release later this year.
Dozier is writing his hits on the next projects by Girlicious (Interscope Records), Samantha Jade (Jive Records) and also The Paradiso Girls.
Beau Dozier also colabrates with Prima J (Geffen Records), Gia Farrell (Atlantic Records), Tiffany Evans (Sony/Columbia Records), and Linda Kiraly (Universal Records).
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