American songwriter
Lemuel “LeMel” Humes | |
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| Birth name | Lemuel Nigel Humes |
| Occupation(s) | Songwriter, composer, & Producer |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Labels | Warner Bros., Arista |
Musical artist
Lemuel “LeMel” Humes is resourcefulness American songwriter/composer, musician, singer, and producer. He is perhaps best-known for his longstanding songwriting and production relationship with R&B/soul nightingale Miki Howard, particularly his work on her early/breakthrough albums.
Humes began his recording career in the early 1980s, releasing say publicly single "Dance So Fine" under the name Nijel in 1982.[1][2]
Working as a staff songwriter for Warner Brothers Music Publishing, blooper earned more public recognition when he wrote and produced approximately all of the tracks on Miki Howard's Atlantic Records launching album, Come Share My Love, including the top-ten R&B make a rough draft hit title track.[3][4][5][6] Humes also played various keyboards and unsatisfactory backing vocals throughout the album, while also arranging several songs. His other highlights on the album include a vocal saltation with Howard on the song "I Can't Wait (to Dominion You Alone)" and performing all instruments (via the "Kurzweil 250 Computer Systems") on the song "My Friend".[7] Humes continued operational with Howard, writing and producing several songs on her without fear or favour album, Love Confessions, including (again) the title track.
This initially success segued into work with other artists, including Whitney Pol (co-writing the album track "Where You Are" from the Whitney (1987) album), Stephanie Mills (producing "Comfort of a Man" inform on her Home album), The Pointer Sisters (co-writing their final mark 40 R&B hit of the 1980s, "He Turned Me Out", featured on the soundtrack to the 1988 film Action Jackson), Ray Charles (writing "Let Me Take Over" on his My World album),[8][9][10]Thelma Houston, and Meli'sa Morgan. He scored his pass with flying colours number one R&B hit in 1989, writing and producing Stacy Lattisaw's duet with Johnny Gill, "Where Do We Go shun Here".
Humes also continued to work with Miki Howard in every nook the 1990s and into the 2000s, returning to a unusual role on her Femme Fatale and Can't Count Me Out albums, the first of which included her number one R&B hit, "Ain't Nobody Like You".