The group released three moderately successful albums for Virgin Records and became best known for their 1990 singles "Ready or Not" and "Can't Stop."

[4] At Indiana University he was a member of the Soul Revue, where he met his future After 7 groupmate Keith Mitchell.

For years after college Edmonds worked at Eli Lilly and Company, but he would come together with Keith and Melvin to perform locally.

By the late 1980s, Edmonds' younger brother Babyface had built a successful career singing, writing and producing.

The departure from Virgin Records allowed the members to pursue their own personal projects and over time, saw the group separate.

[5] Edmonds then appeared with Babyface and K-Ci & JoJo for a project in a fictional group called Milestone.

Melvin was able to reunite with the group on the 2015 single "I Want You", and a full comeback album Timeless was released in October 2016.