Forming in 1981, The Deele recorded three albums during the 1980s, and |scored two hit singles. In 1984 “Body Talk” reached #77 on the Billboard Hot |100 pop chart. In 1987 their song “Two Occasions” reached #4 on the R&B |charts and was the biggest hit for the group, which created new opportunities |to write and co-produce for others such as Babyface, Tevin Campbell, Bobby |Brown, and The Whispers (Rock Steady) to name a few. The group reunited in 1993, without Reid and Edmonds, to record their final |album, Invitation to Love. The Deele in 2007 is back and currently touring to |promote their new single “The Only One” under Eieg/D-Town Records (Dallas |Texas) with a full album scheduled to release in 2008. The Deele was added Deele.htmlto Eieg/D-Town Koast2Koast Records in 2006 and is expected to write and |produce for DTR/K2K new young artist putting the S back into “muzic”. The Grammy Award Winning Group “The Deele” is now back in the top 10 |spotlight featured in Mariah Carey‘s 2005 Grammy nominated hit “We Belong |Together”. This would be the beginning of an entity that would give birth to the |most influential group of musicians and singers in the music industry today, |changing the course of R&B forever. With Antonio “L.A.” Reid and Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds branching off into |their on solo careers, Kayo, Carlos, and Dee collectively produced, wrote, |arranged, and performed on pop, adult contemporary, and R&B projects with |over 50 million copies sold. Their expertise has included artists as diverse as |Mariah Carey, Paula Abdul, Bar-Kays, Bootsy Collins, Johnny Gill, Babyface, |TLC, Bobby Brown, Toni Braxton, The Whispers, Whitney Houston and many |more. Now apart of D-Town Koast2Koast Records/Sony BMG a Dallas based record |label, The Deele is finding a new emergence in the music industry bringing the |same musical influence, energy and professionalism, three decades later to |quench the thirst of the masses. http://www.dtownrecords.com/TheDeele.html| |
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