Singer/songwriter/keyboardist/producer Kashif wrote and played on Evelyn King's (aka Evelyn "Champagne" King) number one R&B hits "I'm in Love" and "Love Come Down," Whitney Houston's first hit "You Give Good Love" and one of its follow-ups, "Thinking About You" from her 17-million-selling debut album Whitney Houston. He also contributed to her 17-million selling Whitney LP. His own recording career yielded 17 R&B hit singles and four Top 40 albums. He recorded several duets: "Love Changes" with Mel'isa Morgan, "Love the One I'm With" with Melba Moore, and "Reservations for Two" with Dionne Warwick.
Part of the vanguard that includes early pioneers Stevie Wonder and Ronnie McNeir and his '80s contemporaries the System, Kashif helped to revolutionized R&B music through the infusion of the then-emerging affordable, MIDI/synth technology of the '80s. Music synthesizers at one point could easily fill a room. With the advent of the microchip, synths became more portable and had tonal stability and pricing (though most professional-level synths cost a couple thousand dollars or more) during the '80s. Like McNeir, Kashif shares the distinction of having two self-titled albums in his catalog.
Born Michael Jones in Brooklyn, NY, in 1959, Kashif was orphaned at an early age, growing up in eight foster homes. His first experience with synthesized instruments came during his years with B.T. Express ("Express," "Do It 'Til You're Satisfied"). He appears on the group's early-'80s sides for Columbia Records (check out "Ride on It " from 1978's Shout! LP, among others). Kashif began playing synthesizer bass using the miniMoog while on the road with the group.
Inspired by Gamble & Huff and Thom Bell's Mighty Three Music, he formed Mighty M Productions with Paul Laurence and Morrie Brown, infusing early-'80s R&B with a fresh synth-based sound. One of their first projects was Evelyn Champagne King who had a 1979 gold single, "Shame." Prompting her to sing in her higher register than in her previous records, the Mighty M was were attempting to give the singer a more youthful sound. At the same time, RCA Records suggested that she same drop the "Champagne" from her name, thus becoming Evelyn King. The result of their collaboration was "I'm in Love," whose style and bass sound was different from anything being done at the time. It went to number one R&B in summer 1981. The I'm in Love album, which also included the hit "Don't Hide Our Love," peaked at number six R&B. RCA asked Kashif, Brown, and Laurence to produce her follow-up album. Influenced by songwriter/producer Leon F. Sylvers III, Kashif came up with the sprightly "Love Come Down" on which he played all of the instruments except guitar, which was played by Ira Siegel. The single went all the way to number one R&B and didn't come down for five weeks. It was included on her gold Get Loose LP, which parked at number one R&B for two weeks and yielded the number two R&B smash "Betcha She Don't Love You."
Signing with Arista Records in 1983, his self-tilted debut Kashif spawned the hits "I Just Gotta Have You (Lover Turn Me On)," "Stone Love," "Help Yourself to My Love," and "Say Something Love." His other albums are Send Me Your Love, "Baby Don't Break Your Baby's Heart," "Are You the Woman," Condition of the Heart, Love Changes and 1989's Kashif, with the charming cover of the Four Tops hit "Aint No Woman Like the One I Got." Becoming an in-demand writer/producer, Kashif can be heard on releases by Kenny G ("Keeping Love New"), George Benson, Johnny Kemp, Dionne Warwick, Giorge Pettus, Stacy Lattisaw, Expose, the Wootens, Freda Payne, and others. His Grammy nominations are for the instrumentals "The Mood," "Call Me Tonight," "Edgartown Groove" featuring Al Jarreau, and "The Movie Song."
During 1994, Kashif received an invitation from the famed U.C.L.A. Extension program and created a course called Contemporary Record Production With Kashif. In August 1995, Kashif authored the music industry tome Everything You'd Better Know About the Record Industry as CEO of his Los Angeles-based Brooklyn Boy Books, Entertainment, and Information. In 1998, Kashif signed with U.K. label Expansion Records and his album Who Loves You was released that same year. Allmusicby Ed Hogan
Album: Kashif (1983)
01. Don't Stop My Love
02. Stone Love
03. Just Gotta Have You (Lover Turn Me On)
04. Help Yourself To My Love
05. Rumors
06. Say Something Love
07. The Mood
08. All
09. Baby Don't Break Your Babys Heart (Bonus Track)
10. Send Me Your Love (Bonus Track)
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Album: Send Me Your Love (1984)
01. Baby Don't Break Your Baby's Heart
02. Ooh Love
03. Are You The Woman
04. Love Has No End
05. Call Me Tonight (Instrumental)
06. Send Me Your Love
07. I've Been Missin' You
08. Edgartown Groove
09. That's How It Goes
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Album: Condition Of The Heart (1985)
01. I Wanna Have Love With You
02. Dancing In The Dark (Heart To Heart)
03. Condition Of The Heart
04. Say You Love Me
05. Movie Song (Instrumental)
06. Stay The Night
07. Weakness
08. Botha Botha (Anti-Apartheid Song)
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Album: Love Changes (1987)
01. Love Changes (Duet With Meli'sa Morgan)
02. Loving You Only
03. It All Begins Again
04. Love Me All Over
05. Midnight Mood
06. Fifty Ways (To Fall In Love)
07. Somebody
08. Who's Getting Serious
09. Reservations For Two
10. Vacant Heart
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Album: Kashif (1989)
01. Personality
02. Looking For A Lover
03. Love Letter Out Loud
04. Step Into My World
05. I'm Coming Home
06. Ain't No Woman (Like The One I Got)
07. After You
08. My Door
09. Pop The Question
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Album: The Best of Kashif (1994)
01. I You Gotta Have You (Lover Turn Me On)
02. Baby Don't Break Your Baby's Heart
03. Ooh Love
04. Stone Love
05. Condition of the Heart
06. Are You Woman
07. Reservations for Two
08. Love Changes
09. Fifty Ways (To Fall in Love)
10. Stay the Night
11. Love Me All Over
12. Help Yourself to My Love
13. Send Me Your Love
14. Dancing in the Dark (Heart to Heart)
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Album: Who Loves You (1998)
01. Bed You Down
02. Good Ol' Days
03. Rhythm Of My Mind
04. Brooklyn Breezes
05. I Don't Give A Damn
06. Mingo Weya
07. Can We Just
08. Lay You Down
09. It's Alright
10. Who Loves You_ (It's Alright Pt.2)
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Album: The Definitive Collection (1998)
01. I Just Gotta Have You (Lover Turn Me On)
02. Help Yourself To My Love
03. Are You The Woman
04. Stone Love
05. Dancing In The Dark (Heart To Heart)
06. Love The One I'm With (A Lot Of Love)
07. Baby Don't Break Your Baby's Heart
08. Condition Of The Heart
09. Reservations For Two
10. Love Me All Over
11. Loving You Only
12. Ain't No Woman (Like The One I Got)
13. Love Changes
14. Personality
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Album: Best Of Kashif (2002)
01. Reservations for Two
02. Love Changes
03. Dancing in the Dark (Heart to Heart
04. Are You the Woman
05. Loving You Only
06. Love Has No End
07. The Mood
08. Botha Botha (Apartheid Song)
09. Baby Don't Break Your Baby's Heart
10. Ooh Love
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Album: Music From My Mind (2004)
CD1
01. Sexy Girls
02. Superfly
03. So Emotional
04. I'm Down
05. Tossin' Turnin'
06. Bout To Fall In Love
07. Mingo Wheya
08. Black Woman
09. He Don't Love You
10. I Don't Give A Damn
11. Beautiful Eyes
12. Crazy Love
13. Can We Just Get Along
14. Chill Chill Chill
15. Brooklyn Breezes
CD2
01. Don't Stop My Love
02. Lover Turn Me On
03. Stone Love
04. Help Yourself To My Love
05. Say Something Love
06. The Mood
07. Rumors
08. All
09. Sexy Girls (Instrumental)
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