Member Since: 5/15/2006
Band Members:
Influences: My Heavenly Father, My father in Heaven, My mom & my sister's heart, Amani & Masai,
Andrae Crouch, Andrae Crouch & The Disciples (I was at the horn session for "Jesus Is Lord"...11yrs. old with butterflies in my stomach and holding back tears),
Kenneth Crouch (... if you know what a real book is, then you know what a fake book is.....I am a witness of it goin' down from the very beginning...cool, huh?), Walter Hawkins and the Hawkins Family (Jesus Christ Is The Way album), The Winans, CeCe Winans (a real live earth walking angel... I still don't think she has ever sinned),
Prince (Sign O' The Times is like the consistancy of Innervisions...do you remember when you told me "Whatever you do, don't let THEM break your spirit"?),
Prince and the Revolution (for all of the extended versions and b-sides that allowed musicians to see in HD color without a tv screen), Kiss, La La La,Hee Hee Hee, Condition Of The Heart, The Ballad of Dorothy Parker, STRANGE RELATIONSHIP,
Herbie Hancock (for "Trust Me"...thanks Lalah),
Lalah Hathaway (for the left side that singers still don't know they got it from her),
Sherree Ford-Payne (do you all remember her?...no more name changes.... your gift is documented FOREVER, especially because you give of yourself...thanks Cornelius),
Chick Corea and the Return To Forever Band (for the Romantic Warrior album),
Bernie Worrell + Jimmy Jam + Chuckii Booker + Jubu on bass =Kamillion,
Psalms 150 (for opening up for Andrae Crouch at the Peace In The Valley Festival in 1976),
The 2nd Chapter of Acts (for their family harmonies and vocal arrangements),
Bill Maxwell (for letting me sit in with my uncle when I was 5),
Chuckii Booker (for letting me in his sessions when I was 19 and showed me what a musical playground is...I still have the Fender Jazz you gave me for Christmas when I was 19...same strings),
Fishbone (for Angelo showing me what an upfront man is all about...Hollywood Palladium, I was 15yrs. old),
Michael Jackson (for the soul on "Goin' Back to Indiana).
Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis (for the love of music and years of loyalty between black men),
Jubu (I totally understand guitar now, I just can't play it), Legally Blynd, Toni,Tony,Tone, Carl Wheeler,
Charlie Parker + Maceo + Eric Leeds & Atlanta Bliss = Derrick Edmondson (the horn speaks!!!),
Bill Maxwell+ Dennis Chambers + the Linn 9000= D*Loc (I get it),
Jimmy Abney, IT,
Rahsaan Patterson (for sharing his mind and why he will never be "here"),
Stevie Wonder (for his eyes...I was listening to "Too High" when I came up with Brandy's "Baby" track),
Sly & The Family Stone (Poet),
Radio (for letting me know just how far off they can be when they shove candy down our throats... everyone needs vegatables!!!!!)
Thomas Dolby (Aliens Ate My Buick), Michael Omartian, Steely Dan, The Beatles (Strawberry Fields Forever), Van Halen, Chicago, Hall & Oates, Aerosmith,
Peter Frampton, Roger Troutman, Larry Norman, Sonlight,
Quincy Jones (we'll have to give him his own page),
Kipper Jones (he gave me the inspiration to write lyrics....now I know how to let it out),
Cornelius Mims...genius, Tease, Derek and Thomas Organ,
Michael Williams (for knowing how to get those checks), Darryl Willialms (for knowing a hit when he hears one),
Ice Cube (Amerikkka's Most Wanted album), EPMD, Hank & Keith Shocklee, Dr. Dre,
The Notorius B.I.G. (Ready To Die...hip hop's funk at it's best),
Busta Rhymes (the musician),
Maurice Taylor (for giving me my first secular 45..."September"),
Earth, Wind, & Fire, Ohio Players (...for the undeniable funk and the album covers I wasn't supposed to be looking at when I was a kid), Cameo (I was listening to "Keep It Hot" when I came up with Brandy's "Best Friend"), George Clinton (let's not even get started), Larry Graham,
El Debarge (genius), Haute & Brash, Fly Leaf ("I'm So Sick), ......and the rest to be continued.
Sounds Like: Keith Crouch + Human Rhythm Productions + Edwardfunkyhandz + Thomasedward Entertainment + Kamillion + Johnny Onyx + The Crouch Trio + Greg & Glenn McKinney + Grace + Kenneth Crouch and God's Chosen Sounds + Swingbopulous +Ecstasoul + Burgundyblue = Hope, then Freedom!!!!
Type of Label: None