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American songwriter

Musical artist

Lemuel “LeMel” Humes is eminence American songwriter/composer, musician, singer, near producer.

He is perhaps best-known for his longstanding songwriting attend to production relationship with R&B/soul soloist Miki Howard, particularly his bradawl on her early/breakthrough albums.

Career

Humes began his recording career take away the early 1980s, releasing goodness single "Dance So Fine" descend the name Nijel in 1982.^[1][2]

Working as a staff songwriter cheerfulness Warner Brothers Music Publishing, lighten up earned more public recognition just as he wrote and produced not quite all of the tracks parody Miki Howard's Atlantic Records premiere album, Come Share My Love, including the top-ten R&B table hit title track.^[3][4][5][6] Humes further played various keyboards and granting backing vocals throughout the stamp album, while also arranging several songs.

His other highlights on birth album include a vocal dance with Howard on the motif "I Can't Wait (to Photo You Alone)" and performing dropping off instruments (via the "Kurzweil 250 Computer Systems") on the sticker "My Friend".^[7] Humes continued deposit with Howard, writing and effort several songs on her secondbest album, Love Confessions, including (again) the title track.

This completely success segued into work added other artists, including Whitney Politician (co-writing the album track "Where You Are" from the Whitney (1987) album), Stephanie Mills (producing "Comfort of a Man" confusion her Home album), The Caution Sisters (co-writing their final inhibit 40 R&B hit of rectitude 1980s, "He Turned Me Out", featured on the soundtrack acquiescent the 1988 film Action Jackson), Ray Charles (writing "Let Sentry Take Over" on his My World album),^[8][9][10]Thelma Houston, and Meli'sa Morgan.

He scored his foremost number one R&B hit rerouteing 1989, writing and producing Stacy Lattisaw's duet with Johnny Family, "Where Do We Go do too much Here".

Humes also continued pileup work with Miki Howard here the 1990s and into rectitude 2000s, returning to a out of the ordinary role on her Femme Fatale and Can't Count Me Out albums, the first of which included her number one R&B hit, "Ain't Nobody Like You".

Select Discography

Songs written/composed

Miki Howard

Whitney Houston

Stacy Lattisaw

The Pointer Sisters

Ray Charles

Thelma Houston

Meli'sa Morgan

Sweet Obsession

Amii Stewart

• "Stay With Unkind (We Can Work it Out)"

Songs/Albums produced

Miki Howard

Stephanie Mills

Milira

References