Robert Brookins

A member of the band Earth, Wind & Fire he also worked with artists such as George Duke, Stephanie Mills, Stanley Clarke and The Whispers.

[3] Singing, and playing keyboard and drums as a child, he formed his first band, aged 11, Little Robert & the Fondeles,[2] which won the Motown's Soul Search Contest in 1974.

[4] Brookins then composed on Deniece Williams 1984 album Let's Hear It for the Boy and The Isley Brothers' 1985 LP Masterpiece.

[4] He also made a guest appearance on Stanley Clarke's 1985 LP Find Out!,[5] and on George Duke's 1985 album Thief in the Night.

In 1988, Brookins released his second solo album, Let It Be Me, featuring the top-20 R&B cover of the Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway classic "Where Is the Love?"

[7] He worked as a songwriter and producer on Jeffrey Osborne's 1988 LP One Love-One Dream and Jackie Jackson's 1988 album Be the One.

He later featured on Stanley Clarke and George Duke's 1990 LP 3 and produced Keisha Jackson's 1991 self titled album.

[4] Writing for AllMusic, Andrew Hamilton said: "The often overused term multi-talented is true to its definition when referring to Robert F.