Valerie Simpson

Teaming with partner Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson co-wrote several soul hits prior to the set started a fabulously successful executing career of their very own in the first ’70s. Ashford & Simpson composed for famous brands Chuck Jackson and Ray Charles before signing up for the production personnel at Motown and creating strikes for most of the business’s top serves, notably Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. They tallied their very own first soul strike in 1973 for Warner, accumulating a good string of smashes offering “Don’t SET YOU BACK Nothing at all” (1978), “Present a remedy” (1979), “Road Part” (1982), and “Solid,” the duo’s initial R&B chart-topper in 1984.