CBS News Miami. She also became the go-to DJ for Madonna, at the time the world’s biggest pop star was also a Miami resident. Eventually, Young started remixing for the superstar, work that has continued through the decades.
In fact, through Madonna, Young scored her a Grammy win for Best Remixed Recording of the pop star’s 2019 single “I Rise.” Young became the first female producer ever even nominated in the category.Last year, Young garnered a Grammy nomination for her “Fashionably Late” remix of k.d. lang’s biggest hit “Constant Craving.” “Being nominated is just as much a win,” Young says.Young’s life took a sad turn recently, when her mother, Patricia Ann Ray, died in February due to complications from COVID.“My mom was my muse,” she says. “We shared the love of music.
She would come to the club with me sometimes. She was just so proud.” Since the start of the pandemic, Young has become a regular presence on Twitch, mixing music in livestreamed sessions several times a week. Her mother had been a regular presence in the Twitch chat room.
All that’s taken an understandable toll on Young over the past few months.“I’ve been really down and I haven’t turned [to] music, which was always the thing that got me through the hard times,” Young says. “D.C. will be my first performance since [her death].
I haven’t even done any music since. I was actually quite worried about it. But I picked myself up, and I’m getting ready for D.C., because I’ve got to bring it.
I’ve got to be ready. I have to perform for my family back home.”Last week was the first time since her mother’s passing that Young was able to even walk into her home studio, where she streams on Twitch. “I don’t know what happened Friday.
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