When Vanessa Williams started her singing career, she was known chiefly because the Miss America pageant champion who’d been forced to renounce her name for posing in Penthouse newspaper. Williams not merely place the scandal behind her, she basically obliterated it, turning out some slick, sophisticated strikes that produced her …

Williams is most likely best-known for his long stint with pianist Cedar Walton, but he’s also used a great many other famous jazz performers, including drummer Beaver Harris, flugelhornist Chuck Mangione, and vocalist Vanessa Rubin. Williams analyzed with Ron Carter while in his 20s. He caused Harris in NEW YORK …

This trombonist is area of the lush backing in the 1996 CD by singer Vanessa Williams entitled Star Bright.

Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Jimmy ‘Jam’ Harris (b. Wayne Harris III, 6 June 1959, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) and Terry Lewis (b. 21 November 1956, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) are prolific makers of modern R&B and pop. Both first worked jointly in the first 80s as associates of your time (previously …

Elkin Marin (given birth to Javier Marin Velez), given birth to in Columbia, offers traveled the globe like a performer and saving artist. And in addition, Marin phone calls his audio “globe music rooted in Latin rhythms”; he cites as main affects los Panchos, the Beatles, and Julio Iglesias. A …

b. Conyers, Georgia, USA. Despite becoming among Nashville’s biggest creation stars, Thomas’ actions rarely are the nation music that dominates the spot. As he informed Billboard journal in 1994, he was once informed that ‘you’ll hardly ever have the ability to make pop information right here’. He provides achieved that, …

Seven-time Grammy-winning engineer Al Schmitt includes a profession that spans 4 years. He received seven Grammys for Greatest Engineering (for use Henry Mancini [two produces], Steely Dan, George Benson, Toto, Natalie Cole, and Quincy Jones) and two Grammy nominations (for Toto’s Tambu and Dr. John’s After Shine). Schmitt also built …

In collaboration with partner Terry Lewis, Jimmy Jam emerged among the most effective producers and writers from the 1980s, his lengthy history of pace-setting R&B, club, and pop hits reaching its apex about some smash records for Janet Jackson. Given birth to Wayne Harris III in Minneapolis on June 6, …

Phil Madeira is a multi-instrumentalist and manufacturer that has spent a lot more than two decades adding to the recordings of performers such as for example Amy Offer, Alison Krauss, Vanessa Williams, Keb’ Mo’, Julie Miller, Tag Heard, and Phil Keaggy, amongst others. He’s also a vocalist/songwriter and provides put …

Wendy Waldman emerged in the same LA picture as Karla Bonoff, Andrew Silver, Linda Ronstadt, and J.D. Souther. She initial recorded within the group Bryndle (with Bonoff, Silver, and Kenny Edwards), so when they disbanded in the first ’70s with only 1 unreleased album with their name, she was agreed …