Too shy to be out front in the spotlight. “I thought I was going to be a classical singer if anything,” Moten said. A student at Overton High School, Moten would become active in choir competitions and the local musical theater scene.
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“That’s where I started singing.”Īfter winning a Mid-South Fair singing competition at 16, she made her professional debut working at Libertyland theme park, performing there four times a day. “So I was in church all the time,” Moten said. Born and raised in South Memphis, across from Glenview Park, her father was a pastor. Moten’s musical path has been a long and circuitous one. “I really believe that once I was able to handle being on that show, it was the start of getting everything else I want in music after so many years.” From singing in Memphis to touring with Julio Iglesias Unconventional is how I’ve survived,” she said. “You know the conventional approach doesn’t work for me. Now at 57, she’s poised to return to her solo career in earnest, buoyed by the biggest exposure of her life. But Moten’s run on the show proved a bigger kind of victory. Moten would dazzle her way through the competition, making it to the finals of season 21, where she finished as runner-up. MEMPHIS CONCERTS IN 2022: From the reunion of New Edition to Kraftwerk, here are 14 shows to look forward to MEMPHIS MUSIC HISTORY: Stax Museum looks to pass on record label's legacy with Black History Month programming
I wasn't going to be afraid to say my age every opportunity - because it took me this long to be great.” But I wanted everybody to know my age, and to know that I have a great value and so many other people at my age do too. “I know the music biz is supposed to be for the young. “It was that history that made me believe I could go on a television show week after week and be put under a microscope,” Moten said. The Memphis-born, Nashville-based Moten had a long history as a professional singer that included several major label solo records, multiple international hits and a second career as touring musician, backing everyone from Julio Iglesias to Faith Hill. After all, Moten wasn’t some ingénue or starry-eyed kid hoping to break into the business, but rather a 56-year-old veteran of the industry. Last fall, when Wendy Moten turned up as a contestant on NBC’s singing competition “The Voice,” many of her friends, fans and fellow musicians were flummoxed.
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