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Style: Quiet Storm, Urban, Dance-Pop, Contemporary R&B, Adult Contemporary R&B

Decades Active: 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's, 10's, 20's

Singer/songwriter/keyboardist/producer Angela Winbush’s credentials include her own solo hits such as her number one R&B hit, "Angel", hits as one-half of the singing duo
Rene & Angela and their hits "Save Your Love (For #1)" and "Your Smile"; and her hits by
Stephanie Mills
and the Isley Brothers.
One Rene & Angela hit, the 1983 ballad "My First Love," was covered by
Avant
on his spring 2000 debut CD, "My Thoughts". Winbush‘s own albums are
"Sharp", "Angela Winbush", and "It’s the Real Thing". Besides Rene Moore, Winbush‘s early
collaborators were Moore’s brother, Rufus, bassist Bobby Watson,
engineer/producer Bruce Swedien, and George Duke.

Angela Winbush - booking information Born in
St. Louis, Missouri,
Angela Winbush
grew up singing gospel music in the church choir and learned to play
piano as a child. She had no intentions of pursuing a professional
music career when she began attending Washington, D.C.’s Howard
University majoring in architecture. To earn money to pay expenses,
she began singing on recording sessions and formed a singing trio
that opened for Van McCoy and
Al Jarreau.
She became interested in the music business and changed her major to
music education.

Around 1977, Winbush
sent a demo tape to New York DJ Gary Byrd. He played it over the
phone for his friend
Stevie Wonder. Stevie
called Winbush
and invited her to Los Angeles. While singing in
Wonder‘s
backup band Wonderlove, Winbush
learned about writing and producing by sitting in on sessions with

Wonder.

In 1980, she met singer/songwriter Rene Moore through Wonderlove
vocalist Carolyn Dennis and they began writing songs together,
eventually forming the duo Rene & Angela. In 1978, former
Tower of Power
lead singer Lenny Williams recorded one of their songs, "Changes." A
friend introduced the duo to Dr. Cecil Hale, a Capitol Records
executive who signed the duo to the label. Two LPs were issued, "Wall
to Wall" and "Rise".

Another Rene & Angela song, the ballad "I Have
Learned to Respect the Power of Love," was recorded by Alton McClain
and Destiny on their self-titled 1978 Polydor LP. It can be found on
Polygram’s "Power of Love: Best of Soul Essentials Ballads". In 1985,
Rene & Angela signed with Polygram and were assigned to their
Mercury imprint. Their label debut, "Street Called Desire", went gold,
yielding the number one hits "Save Your Love (For #1)," which
featured a rap by Kurtis Blow, and "Your Smile."

An earlier Rene &
Angela song would resurface in a big way. The first single from
Stephanie Mills‘
1985 album was "Stand Back"; on its flip side was her passionate
cover of "I Have Learned to Respect the Power of Love." Because of
its massive radio play as an album track, Mills’ version, produced
by Philly Soul keyboardist Ron Kersey, was reissued as an A-side and
held the number one spot for two weeks in spring 1986.

By
1987, Angela Winbush
was solo and got her first production job on the
Isley Brothers‘
"Smooth Sailing" LP after the group’s lead singer, Ronald Isley,
mentioned to Warner Bros. records executive Benny Medina that he
wanted to work with the group who did "Your Smile." After working
together, Isley became the singer’s manager. Becoming romantically
involved, Winbush
married Ronald Isley on June 26, 1993. She produced and wrote the
bulk of his solo debut, "Spend the Night", credited as
The Isley
Brothers Featuring Ronald Isley. Winbush‘s
other credits include the platinum
Isley Brothers
album "Mission to Please", "Body",
Lalah Hathaway, the
1982 self-titled debut of Plush, Klymaxx,
Sheena Easton‘s
"The Lover in Me", and the 1993 Warner Bros. various artists set, "A
Tribute to Curtis Mayfield".