Roy Ayers (born September 10, 1940) is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer and vibraphone player. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped pioneer jazz-funk. Ayers was responsible for the highly regarded soundtrack to Jack Hills 1973 blaxploitation film Coffy, which starred Pam Grier. 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. In 1977, Ayers produced an album by the group RAMP, Come Into Knowledge, commonly and mistakenly thought to stand for Roy Ayers Music Project. That fall, he had his biggest hit with Running Away. In late 1979, Ayers scored his only top ten single on Billboards Hot Disco/Dance chart with Dont Stop The Feeling, which was also the leadoff single from his 1980 album No Stranger to Love, whose title track was sampled in Jill Scotts 2001 song Watching Me from her debut album Who Is Jill Scott? In 1980, Ayers released Music of Many Colors with the Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. In 1981, Ayers produced an album with the singer Sylvia Striplin, Give Me Your Love (Uno Melodic Records 1981). Ayers performed a solo on John Jellybean Benitezs production of Whitney Houstons Love Will Save The Day from her second multi-platinum studio album Whitney. The single was released in July 1988 by Arista Records.
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