Reggie Lucas

Reginald Grant " Reggie " Lucas ( born February 25, 1953) is an American musician, songwriter and music producer. Lucas was known as a producer of Madonna's 1983 erschienenem debut album as well as his collaboration with drummer Mtume and as a member of Miles Davis' band in the first half of the 1970s.

Life

Lucas began his career as an R & B guitarist. He played with Billy Paul in the early 1970s with Miles Davis from 1972 to 1976, heard on albums such as In Concert Get Up with It and Pangaea. At Davis, he met the drummer Mtume know, who later became his production partner. The two toured from 1976 for several years with the singer Roberta Flack. After his time as a fusion guitarist Lucas focused its work on songwriting and production. In a team with James Mtume he wrote and produced for a number of artists, including Stephanie Mills, Phyllis Hyman, Lou Rawls, The Spinners and Roberta Flack. In 1980, Lucas and Mtume won the Grammy Award for Best R & B Song for their composition Never Knew Love Like This Before that was recorded by Stephanie Mills.

In the late 1970s he began to write for yourself and produce alone. In addition to his own instrumental album from 1978, Survival themes, one of his first projects was the debut album of Madonna, including the song "Borderline". Lucas then worked with Rebbie Jackson, Randy Crawford and The Four Tops. He was also a member of the group Sunfire with whom he released an album in 1982. Lucas also produced her single " Young Free and Single". In 1986 he founded the Quantum Sound recording studio. His clients included the Pet Shop Boys, Jodeci, Jeff Buckley and Sepultura. In the field of jazz, he was involved 1972-1980 to 59 recording sessions, including even with Carlos Garnett, Norman Connors, Gary Bartz, Lonnie Liston Smith, Urszula Dudziak ( Urszula ), Flora Purim, Masabumi Kikuchi, Zbigniew Seifert, Chris Hinze and John Stubblefield.