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ALOHA! PLEASE LET ME KNOW HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT WHAT I'M DOING 👍🏾 I APPRECIATE YOU!THIS IS MY SECOND EPISODE WHERE I FOCUS ON A PROMINENT MUSIC PRODUCER. AND IN THIS EPISODE, I’M FOCUSING ON ONE OF THE MOST SLEPT ON ARTISTS IN MUSIC. ‘SLEPT ON’ MEANS OVERLOOKED OR MISUNDERSTOOD AND FOR SURE, I BELIEVE THAT LEON SYLVERS III HAS BEEN SOMEWHAT OVERLOOKED. WHEN YOU CONSIDER AND LOOK AT HIS BODY OF WORK IT’S ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN HE’S ONE OF MUSIC’S UNDERRATED AND UNDERAPPRECIATED MUSIC PRODUCERS. BACK IN 1972, HE BURST ON THE MUSIC SCENE AS A MEMBER OF THE SINGING GROUP, ‘THE SYLVERS’ - WHICH WAS COMPRISED OF LEON AND SEVERAL OF HIS SIBLINGS. BETWEEN 1972 AND 1974, THE SYLVERS RELEASED THREE ALBUMS, MOSTLY PRODUCED BY R&B LEGEND JERRY BUTLER, AND ALL OF THESE YIELDED SEVERAL POPULAR R&B AND POP HITS. BUT LITTLE WHAT WAS KNOWN, WAS THAT LEON HAD WRITTEN THE MAJORITY OF THOSE SONGS, THE SONGS GAINED THE SYLVERS NATIONAL ATTENTION AND PRAISE. IN MID 1978, LEON PRODUCED THE SYLVERS MOST CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ALBUM TITLED ‘FOREVER YOURS’ BUT IT WAS SHORTLY AFTER THAT WHEN HE DECIDED TO PURSUE A FULL TIME CAREER AS A PRODUCER. HE JOINED R&B AGENT AND GOOD FRIEND OF DON CORNELIUS, DICK GRIFFEY - WHO WITH CORNELIUS’ HELP, CREATED ‘SOUNDS OF LOS ANGELES RECORDS’ OR SOLAR, WHEN SYLVERS BECAME THE LEAD IN-HOUSE PRODUCER FOR THE LABEL. IT WAS DURING THIS TIME THAT LEON SYLVERS WAS VERY INSTRUMENTAL IN CREATING ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC SOUNDS EVER TO HIT THE R&B AND POP RADIO AIRWAVES. FROM 1978 TO THE MID 1980’S, LEON SYLVERS WORKED WITH, EITHER OR AS A SONGWRITER, PRODUCER, AND/OR REMIXER, GROUPS SUCH AS LAKESIDE, SHALAMAR, THE WHISPERS, MIDNIGHT STAR, KRYSTOL, DYNASTY, CARRIE LUCAS, AND KLYMAXX. HE WAS ALSO AN INTEGRAL PART IN THE EARLY SUCCESS OF THE PRODUCTION DUO OF JIMMY JAM & TERRY LEWIS. IN 1994, HE ALSO WORKED WITH UBER PRODUCER THE LEGENDARY TEDDY RILEY, AND HIS GROUP BLACKSTREET, IN CON-WRITING ONE OF THEIR BIGGEST HITS, “BEFORE I LET YOU GO.” LEON SYLVERS IS ONE OF MUSIC’S MOST VISIONARY PRODUCERS, ESPECIALLY FOR R&B MUSIC BEGINNING IN THE LATE 1970’S AND PUSHING WELL INTO THE 80’S, HIS LEGACY HAS STOOD THE TEST OF TIME. Call my studio hotline: 808-343-1943, leave me a message!Please give me your thoughts, ideas, comments & questions: IG: @cjaaybeats; X: @djceejaay; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carl.r.johnsonjr1; You Tube: @djceejaay