Alex Ligertwood - David Garfield - Let's Stay Together

 David Garfield (September 27, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer.

He has recorded with Smokey Robinson, Cher, Larry Carlton, Steve Lukather, Spinal Tap, George Benson, The Manhattan Transfer, Eros Ramazzotti, and The Rippingtons. He has performed with Freddie Hubbard, Boz Scaggs, Oleta Adams, Brenda Russell, Natalie Cole, and Michael Bolton. He is a founding member of Karizma and Los Lobotomys. He has been a songwriter, producer, bandleader, arranger, recording artist, record label owner (Creatchy Records), session and touring musician, musical director and composer of commissioned themes for global organizations.

In addition to composing and performing music for Perfect Harmony, he has written several songs with Smokey Robinson, including "One Like You," which George Benson recorded on his 2009 album Songs & Stories. Garfield, who has been from time to time Benson's musical director since 1986, also arranged and produced Guitar Man. Garfield produced I Play The Piano, a DVD/Blu-Ray of Terry Trotter playing solo piano for AIX Media.

Garfield has been commissioned to write and produce theme songs and musical projects for several international organizations, including the composition and CD: "Pool of Friendship" for the European Aquatics Federation LEN (League of European Nations); the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC); and "Deep Within Each Man" (co-written with Phil Perry) for the Shorinji Kempo World Karate Foundation.

His first international release on Creatchy, 1997's Tribute To Jeff, was dedicated to drummer Jeff Porcaro. Garfield followed its Top Ten chart success with I Am The Cat… Man, and Giving Back. He re-released on Creatchy Records several collections from earlier in his career, including L.A. Keyboard Project, Recollections, and Seasons of Change.

Karizma's discography on Creatchy includes Dream Come True, Cuba, All The Way Live, (Forever in the) Arms of Love, Document, and Lost and Found. The other projects he has helmed for Creatchy include albums by guitarists Michael Landau and Michael O'Neill, saxophonists Brandon Fields and Larry Klimas and, most recently, former Toto bassist Mike Porcaro. Another Creatchy release, Los Lobotomys, is a collaboration with prominent members of the pop/rock band Toto, with whom Garfield has collaborated with many times throughout the years. Garfield also frequently does free-lance keyboard and production work for established and up and coming artists from across the U.S. and throughout the world.

In addition to his work with George Benson, Garfield continues ongoing musical relationships with numerous musicians, including Boz Scaggs and Natalie Cole. Over the years, he has recorded with Cher, Spinal Tap, The Rippingtons, Ratt, Larry Carlton, and Smokey Robinson; produced for Oleta Adams and Flora Purim; and has performed live with Michael Bolton, The Blues Brothers, Brenda Russell and Rick Braun, among others. Early in 2012, he was presented with the Hall of Fame Award from the Java Jazz Festival in Jakarta; Garfield has performed at the Indonesia event several times, most recently with saxophonist Gerald Albright and vocalist Alex Ligertwood. The same trio of musicians later performed at the Blue Note in Tokyo.

At the same time as he was performing his first gigs with Karizma in the mid-1970s, Garfield began working with jazz talents such as Willie Bobo, Freddie Hubbard, and Tom Scott. After establishing himself on the L.A. jazz scene, the keyboardist became a key part of the city's vast studio world during its heyday. These experiences ultimately led to composing opportunities for TV, film and commercials for such companies as NBC, Disney, Nippon Television, and RTL Germany. During the 1980s, Garfield arranged and produced many Japanese artists and went on to produce his own projects for release in Japan.

Reflecting on his diverse career, Garfield says, "It's creatively invigorating to have the opportunity to do so many interesting musical projects, to see so many amazing places throughout the world, and to work with some of the greatest musicians both in L.A. and overseas. I feel as though I am always learning from the artists and musicians I work with, not simply on a musical level, but also benefiting from their wealth of stories and life and career experiences. There are always unexpected thrills along the way, from opening with his band for Sergio Mendes or Jason Mraz to recording in a studio next to Paul McCartney or Alice in Chains and having the opportunity to meet and get to know them. I love being involved in so many different aspects of music and the feeling that I truly never know what's coming up next".

Alexander John Ligertwood (Lĭ-jərt-wood) (born 18 December 1946) is a Scottish singer, guitarist and drummer.

He is best known as the lead vocalist of Santana, with five different stints from 1979 to 1994, which included the US Festival in 1982. He is credited on songs by Santana such as "All I Ever Wanted", "You Know That I Love You", "Winning" and "Hold On". He also performed with the Senate, the Jeff Beck Group and Brian Auger's Oblivion Express. He appeared with Go Ahead side project started by members of Grateful Dead,^[2] John Cipollina and friends, the Average White Band and David Sancious.^[3]

Ligertwood sang lead vocals on the song "Crank It Up" by the Dregs, (previously known as Dixie Dregs), from the album Industry Standard (1982),^[4] as well as contributing the lead vocal on the song "Double Bad" from Jeff Lorber's album In the Heat of the Night (1984).^[5]

In 1972, he was a member of the ephemerous Troc band with drummer André Ceccarelli, bassist Jannick Top, pianist Henri Giordano and guitarist Jacky Giraudo.

From 1986 to 1988, Ligertwood was a member of Go Ahead with Bill Kreutzmann and Brent Mydland.^[6]

During 2000, he toured with World Classic Rockers. He sang on a cover of the Scorpions song "Is There Anybody There", which appears on drummer Herman Rarebell's solo album Acoustic Fever (2013). In 2014, Ligertwood's vocals were featured on tracks by El Chicano. In the same year, he toured in Japan and Europe with Brian Auger and the Oblivion Express.^[7]

In 2014, Ligertwood was invited by producer Gerry Gallagher to record with Latin rock band El Chicano, as well as Alphonse Mouzon, David Paich, Brian Auger, Ray Parker Jr., Lenny Castro, Siedah Garrett, Walfredo Reyes Jr., Vikki Carr, Pete Escovedo, Peter Michael Escovedo, Jessy J, Marcos J. Reyes, Salvador Santana and Spencer Davis. His vocals are featured on the songs "Make Love", "The Viper" and "Outbound" from a Gallagher studio collaboration.^{[citation needed]}

Ligertwood has also performed with the Magic of Santana, a German tribute band whose guests have included other former Santana members.

Jody Watley - Don't Give Up

 Jody Vanessa Watley, más conocida como Jody Watley (Chicago, Illinois, 30 de enero de 1959) es una cantante, compositora y productora musical estadounidense. Ha colaborado con artistas como Madonna, Shalamar, Eric B. & Rakim, George Michael, 4hero, Janet Jackson y otros. Watley es conocida por su hit de 1988 «Looking For A New Love», que alcanzó la segunda posición en el Hot 100 de Billboard.

Daryl Hall & John Oates - Can't Get Enough of Your Love

 Hall & Oates es un dúo estadounidense de soul formado en Filadelfia en 1970, por Daryl Hall (cantante) y John Oates (guitarra eléctrica y coros). Se estima que el dúo vendió 80 millones de grabaciones a lo largo de su carrera, convirtiéndose en el dúo musical con más ventas de todos los tiempos. Llegaron al número 1 en el Billboard Hot 100 un total de seis veces junto con muchas otras canciones que entraron en el Top 40 de dicha lista. Tienen siete álbumes certificados platino y seis álbumes certificados oro por la RIAA.​ Este éxito no se reflejó en el Reino Unido, donde nunca llegaron a tener una canción o álbum en el número uno, solo entraron en el Top 10 de la UK Singles Chart un total de dos veces junto con seis sencillos alcanzando el Top 40 de la misma lista y solo dos de sus álbumes entraron en el Top 10 de la UK Albums Chart.

La revista Billboard los nombró en la posición diecisiete en su lista de los "100 más grandes artistas de todos los tiempos".​ Fueron incluidos en el Salón de la Fama del Rock and Roll en abril de 2014. El 2 de septiembre de 2016 recibieron una estrella en el Paseo de la fama de Hollywood.

Shirma Rouse & Kim Hoorweg - I Say a Little Prayer

 Shirma Tamara Rouse (born 13 March 1980) is a Dutch singer. She is known for her participation in the fourth season of The Voice of Holland, and for providing backing vocals for Anouk at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013. In 2018, she was invited to the funeral of Aretha Franklin, due to the popularity of her tribute album to the artist.

Shirma Rouse was born on 13 March 1980 on the island of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. She grew up on Sint Eustatius and returned to Curaçao in 1996 to complete her secondary education. In 1999, she began studying chemistry at Leiden University in the Netherlands, but transferred to the Rotterdam Conservatory in 2005 to study jazz music.

In 2010, Rouse released her debut studio album, titled Chocolate Coated Dreams. In 2012, a second album was released, titled Shirma Rouse sings Aretha, with which she did a theatre tour.

In 2013, she accompanied Anouk to the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden as a backing singer, where she was named best backing singer by The Eurovision Times. That same year, Rouse participated in the fourth season of The Voice of Holland, where she was eliminated in the semi-finals.

In 2017, Rouse toured with The Soul of Spanish Harlem, and resumed her Aretha Franklin tribute. After the death of Franklin in 2018, Rouse was invited to attend the funeral. In 2021, she published a cookery book in Dutch entitled Shirma's Soul Kitchen. In 2023, she presented an episode of the Omroep Zwart television programme Hoe … is Nederland? about fat shaming.

 Kim Hoorweg (born 9 December 1992) is a Dutch singer-songwriter. Kim Hoorweg is born in 1992 in Utrecht, but quickly moved to Rotterdam. As a young girl, Kim starts with cello lessons, but when she meets Trijntje Oosterhuis at the age of twelve, thanks to her father pianist Erwin Hoorweg, Kim gets inspired to sing jazz. Since then Kim takes singing classes at the conservatory in Amsterdam.

Beside studio albums, Kim is also doing other projects. She is performing with The Kimcompany, a band which exists of eight Dutch musicians, led by pianist Erwin Hoorweg. With this funk and soul-jazz formation she performed on The Hague Jazz, IJsseljazz, Amersfoort Jazz, Jazz in Duketown and the Enschede International Jazzfestival. Another project is Back to the Roots, in which Kim performs in a special setting, together with Shirma Rouse. With percussion, keyboard and bass they sing several songs of Ella Fitzgerald en Aretha Franklin. Also, Kim is one of the founders of Bongomatik, a formation which make music that is a mix of Latin, pop and jazz. The bandleaders are known from their participation in bands like Drums United, the Houdini's, Nueva Manteca, Orkater and the formation works together with musicians like Marco Borsato, Raul Midón, Trijntje Oosterhuis, Candy Dulfer en Gino Vannelli.

Eric Silver - Over My Shoulder

 Eric Silver es un cantante, multiinstrumentista, compositor y productor musical estadounidense afincado en Brasil. Ha trabajado como compositor, músico y productor para artistas como las Dixie Chicks, Shania Twain, Cindy Lauper y Deborah Blando.  Donna Summer, Keith Urban y otros. Las Dixie Chicks, por ejemplo, grabaron su canción "Without You" y alcanzó el número uno en las listas Billboard en 2001. En su colaboración con Shania Twain, Eric tocó la mandolina en el álbum Come On Over, uno de los más vendidos de los años 90. Sus composiciones le han valido 5 premios Grammy. Sus composiciones le han valido 5 premios ASCAP, incluido uno en 1994 por la canción "This Romeo Ain't Got Juliet Yet", grabada por Diamond Rio, y 1 premio SOCAN.

Desde 2007, Silver es el compositor estadounidense más grabado en Brasil, con más de 60 canciones grabadas por artistas brasileños. En 2015 grabó el álbum Bridges, Friends and Brothers, en el que registró canciones clásicas del cancionero sertanejo brasileño en inglés. Este álbum contó con la participación especial de Paula Fernandes, Renato Teixeira, Sérgio Reis, Almir Sater y Sérgio Britto.

Adrienne Warren - Private Dancer

 Adrienne Warren (born May 6, 1987) is an American actress, singer and dancer. She made her Broadway debut in the 2012 musical Bring It On, and in 2016 received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical nomination for her performance in Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed. She was also praised for her role as Tina Turner in the West End production of Tina in 2018, and for the same role in the Broadway production, for which she received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 2020.

Warren began her career performing in musicals The Wiz and Dreamgirls before making her Broadway debut in the musical Bring It On in 2012. In 2016, she starred in Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, for which she received Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical nomination. Warren also appeared in a number of television series, including Blue Bloods, Orange Is the New Black, and Black Box.

In 2018, Warren was cast as Tina Turner in the West End production of Tina. She received critical praise for her performance as Turner and a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical nomination. The following year, she performed in the Broadway production, winning the 2020 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 2021.

In October 2020, it was announced that Warren was cast in her first television leading role in the ABC limited series Women of the Movement playing activist Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till.

In December 2020, Warren narrated the audiobook of Tina Turner's memoir Happiness Becomes You, which was released by the Simon & Schuster imprint Atria Books.

In September 2021, Warren was cast in the epic film The Woman King starring Viola Davis. Inspired by true events from the 18th and 19th centuries Kingdom of Dahomey in Africa, Warren plays a warrior.

Ely Bruna - Holding Back the Years

 Ely Bruna was born in Mexico, grew up in the US and then moved to Italy. She speaks fluently Spanish, English and Italian. Due to her great voice, she has compared to famous singers like Whitney Houston. She was a session vocalist for various Dance productions in the '90 and has been performing a lot around the world. She also has taken part in many tv shows in Italy. She wrote and co-wrote many songs. Her first album under her own name was dedicated to remakes in a soul-jazz style of tunes from the 80's and 90's.