In 1993, Ayers appeared on the record Guru's Jazzmatazz Vol.1В featuring on the vibraphone in the song 'Take a Look (At Yourself)'. In 1992, Ayers released two albums, DriveВ and Wake Up, for the hip-hopВ label Ichiban Records. The single was released in July 1988 by Arista Records. ДЄyers performed a solo on the John 'Jellybean' BenitezВ production of Whitney HoustonВ ' Love Will Save The Day' from her second multi-platinum studio album Whitney. In 1981, Ayers produced an album with the singer Sylvia Striplin, Give Me Your LoveВ (Uno Melodic Records 1981). In 1980, Ayers released Music Of Many ColorsВ with the Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. In late 1979, Ayers scored his only top ten single on Billboard's Hot Disco/Dance chartВ with 'Don't Stop The Feeling,' which was also the leadoff single from his 1980 album 'No Stranger to Love', whose title track was sampled in Jill Scott's 2001 song 'Watching Me' from her debut album Who Is Jill Scott? That Fall, he had his biggest hit with 'Running Away'. In 1977, Ayers produced an album by the group RAMP, Come Into Knowledge, commonly and mistakenly thought to stand for 'Roy Ayers Music Project'. He later moved from a jazz-funk sound to R&B, as seen on Mystic Voyage, which featured the songs 'Evolution' and the underground disco hit 'Brother Green (The Disco King)', as well as the title track from his 1976 album Everybody Loves the Sunshine. Career ДЄyers was responsible for the highly regarded soundtrack to Jack Hill's 1973 blaxploitationВ film Coffy, which starred Pam Grier. His high school, Thomas Jefferson High School, produced some of the most talented new musicians, such as Dexter Gordon. Roy would likely have been exposed to music as it not only emanated from the many nightclubs and bars in the area, but also poured out of many of the homes where the musicians who kept the scene alive lived in and around Central. The schools he attended (Wadsworth Elementary, Nevins Middle School, and Thomas Jefferson High School) were all close to the famed Central Avenue, Los Angeles' equivalent of Harlem's Lenox AvenueВ and Chicago's State Street. The area of Los Angeles that Ayers grew up in, now known as ' South Central' but then known as ' South Park', was the epicenter of the Southern California Black musicscene. At the age of five, he was given his first pair of vibraphone malletsВ by Lionel Hampton. Biography Early life ДЄyers was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in a musical family.

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