April Deep Aries Presents: Producer Leon Sylvers III

05/27/12 • 46 min

A. Deep Aries Live! The show that plays multi-genre music, notable interviews

April Deep Aries Presents Producer/Singer/Songwriter Leon Sylvers III. Leon Sylvers is the founding members of the 1970's group, The Sylvers. With hits like "Boogie Fever" and "Misdemeanor" whose music was sampled by rapper D.O.C. in the late 80s with "Its funky enough". The Sylvers have been featured on UNSUNG! Mr. Sylvers has also produced several artists over the decades like The Whispers, Shalamar, Evelyn Champagne King and one of my childhood favorites, Five Star and one of the best groups, Guy w/Teddy Riley up until 2000.

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April Deep Aries presents Author/Activist Ken Jackson

April Deep Aries presents Author/Activist Ken Jackson. Ken is the author of several books. More recently, Lost and Found - One Man's Journey from sinner to saint; An Audience of One; LIFE - Living in Fullness Everyday; Living Righteous; and Out of a Whisper - A Compilation of Christian Short Stories. Jackson earlier works, what he likes to call, his old life's works included likes of titles like Colorful Matters, As If We Never Met, Reconcilable Sacrifices, which was a three part fictional series, no longer in print. His film projects included a documentary called Just Between Us and a feature film colorfully titled, Keith and Greg, also no longer in distribution. As an artist, Jackson does not shy away from interesting story-lines and culturally dynamic news headlines. But as Jackson puts it, "The world of Ken Jackson is anything but boring."

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April Deep Aries Presents: THE LEGENDARY SONGWRITER CHRIS JASPER

If you are familiar with THE ISLEY BROTHERS, then you have heard the music of CHRIS JASPER, who was primarily responsible for writing and producing all of THE ISLEY BROTHERS music during this time, including such beautiful love songs as “For The Love of You” and “Between the Sheets” and uptempo funk such as “Fight the Power.” CHRIS JASPER brought his “unique sound” and musical talents to ISLEY-JASPER-ISLEY, and topped the charts singinglead vocals on “Caravan of Love” (1985).“Caravan” was also used in commercials as part of a Dodge Caravan advertising campaign. His music has also been used in radio and television commercials, most recently “Who’s That Lady” (Swiffer) and “Between The Sheets” (L’Oreal).