Kashif - Stone Love 1983

From Kashif's 1983 Brilliant Superb Classic & Timeless Selftitled Debut Album
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Kashif's growing up in the foster care system has inspired Kashif to lend his time and energy to help find ways to improve the lives of the more than 518,000 young people who are in foster care every day in America. In 2006 he founded Team iCare foundation. He spends much of his time working with child-care agencies around the country helping to improve the system, revamping the message and image of foster care and mentoring young people

Kashif University Founded in 2006 by Kashif is an arts and academic after-school program located in Inglewood California for youth in foster care and at risk youth. Students between age 8 and 18 learn music, dance, recording, singing, song writing, piano, drums as well as reading, writing, math, science and more

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Biography

Kashif Saleem (born Michael Jones in 1959) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and record producer. Kashif became well-known from playing keyboards in the renowned funk band B.T. Express. He played synthesizer bass using the miniMoog while touring with the group. After leaving the band in the early 1980s, Kashif recorded demos with the band Stepping Stone, which led to his eventual solo signing with Arista Records.

Introduced to Arista by Gerry Griffith, its A&R director in 1983, his self-titled debut Kashif (1983) spawned the hits "I Just Gotta Have You (Lover Turn Me On)," "Stone Love," "Help Yourself to My Love," and "Say Something Love." With this release, Kashif was well received as an innovator in music, as R&B artists were only beginning to experiment with synthesizers and other electronic instruments. He is said to have been Arista Records' attempt to respond to Warner Bros. Records' Prince.

His other albums include Send Me Your Love and Condition of the Heart. On the album Love Changes, Exposé provided background vocals. 1989's Kashif, with the cover of the Four Tops' hit "Ain't No Woman Like the One I Got," "Baby Don't Break Your Baby's Heart," and "Are You the Woman."

As an in-demand writer/producer, Kashif can be heard on releases by Kenny G, George Benson, Evelyn "Champagne" King, Johnny Kemp, Melba Moore, Dionne Warwick, Giorge Pettus, Stacy Lattisaw, Exposé, The Wootens, Freda Payne, Whitney Houston, and others. His Grammy nominations are for the instrumentals "The Mood," "Call Me Tonight," "Edgartown Groove" featuring Al Jarreau, and "The Movie Song."

In 1994, Kashif received an invitation from the U.C.L.A. Extension program and created a course called Contemporary Record Production with Kashif. In August 1995, Kashif authored a book entitled 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.
In 2004 Kashif released his album "Music From My Mind"
This Double CD inlcludes the complete 1983 debut album on Disk 2

Albums
Kashif (1983)
Send Me Your Love (1984)
Condition of the Heart (1985)
Love Changes (1987)
Kashif (1989)
Best (1994)
Definitive Collection (1998)
Who Loves You? (1998)
Best of Kashif (2002)
Music from My Mind (2004)

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[ArchieGe]

Written By Lala & Kashif

Lead Vocals - Kashif

Backing Vocals - B.J. Nelson , Brenda White , Evelyn King , Lillo Thomas, Kashif

Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes],Piano [Acoustic], Synthesizer [Obxa]- Kashif

Bass - Wayne Brathwaite

Drums - Leslie Ming

Guitar - Ira Siegel

Keyboards - Ralph Schuckett

Percussion - Bashiri Johnson

[ArchieGe]

KASHIF, whose name means “inventor, discoverer and magic maker” has spent a lifetime doing just that, inventing, discovering and making magic. He is legendary; a producer, songwriter, artist, author, director, photographer, documentarian, and a music icon.

[ArchieGe]

He has produced and/or written chart topping smash hits for Whitney Houston, Kenny G, George Benson, Barry White, Lil’ Kim, Evelyn Champagne King, Will Downing, Dionne Warwick, Janet Jackson, Johnny Kemp, Glenn Jones, Al Jarreau, Da Brat, Me’lisa Morgan and Monica just to name a few.

[ArchieGe]

Born Michael Jones December 26, 1956 in Harlem, New York, Kashif has never known his biological family. “According to my birth certificate, my birth mother was incarcerated when I was four months old. Thats when I went into foster care. All told I experienced eight foster homes between the time I was four months and fifteen years old. My introduction to music came in the form of a $3.00 song flute when I was in the fourth grade.”

[ArchieGe]

Music as it turned would be the only common denominator amidst the uncertainty of moving between the many places he would call home. By age 12 he had mastered several instruments and was playing in some of New York’s finest clubs (The Copacabana & LLoyd Price’s Turntable) and became one of the most sought after musicians on the local band scene.

[hork111]

That bass sounds like a hog rooting in a turnip patch.

[KayPfromthaD]

one of my top 10 rnb hits, this n lover turn me on.

[Slummone777]

@ArchieGe I

[ImaniJay]

simply beautiful!

[tkeitt43]

Every song that is on the album was A hit

[tkeitt43]

Every song that is on the album was A hit

[58dhart]

This bass line VERY nasty......

[tag1989]

@ArchieGe my names kashif. it means "blessed"!!

[ronin752]

@bornin1968a

You can feel that in his music.

[TheUnderCoverKids100]

My name is To Kashif