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SLR Producer Profile for LASALLE GABRIEL

In 2004, an investment group led by LaSalle Gabriel purchased the legendary Flyte Tyme Recording Studios for $7 million dollars.

A music industry veteran for over 20 years, this Grammy award winning guitarist turned label exec has linked the boundaries between R&B, Jazz and Rock, lending his vast array of talents to such heavy weights as Jamie Foxx, TLC, Dallas Austin, Barry White, The Gap Band, Prince, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Jam and Lewis, DJ-Quik, Sheila E, Ann Nesby, Mississippi Mass Choir, Sounds of Blackness, Karyn White, Johnny Gill, Chante' Moore, Color Me Badd, After 7, The Brothers Johnson, Vanessa Williams, Cherelle, Cynda Williams, The Boys, Thomas Whitfield, James Moore, Vesta, and Lo-Key.





Sounds Of Blackness New CD "Heaven" In Stores FALL 2010




song spent 11 weeks on the Top 10 Billboard Country Singles Chart peaking at 4. In 2004 he went on to co-produce, score and supervise post-production for 3 films for Paramount Pictures & Showtime, (imdb.com).




Sammy Stevens Debut Single " Darling I" In stores
FALL 2010 



for The J Project (IOM winner) the single cracked the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart peaking at 15 after spending 21 weeks in the Top 40. Most recently Gabriel produced the essential comeback album for 3-time Grammy award winners Sounds of Blackness. The album and single entitled "Unity" peaked at 11 on the Billboard Gospel Album Chart spending 56 weeks in the Top 40. The CD later won The Stellar Award for Best Gospel Album at the Grand Ole Opry in January of 2006.

In fact between 2005 and 2006 as a producer/songwriter, LaSalle Gabriel had a song on the Top 40 charts every week for an amazing 70 weeks straight! After working with Gabriel for only 8 months, the legendary Barry White crowned the former songwriter for NBC's "Days of our Lives" as one of the Top 50 Guitarists of all time, a title Gabriel accepts with great humility and still works 100 hours a week to maintain.

Certainly no foreigner to the political arena as well, as a film and media consultant Gabriel has been an advisor to former Governor Arne Carlson of Minnesota, former Governor Scott McCollum of Wisconsin
and former Attorney General Skip Humphrey.

Now this Grammy & Stellar Award winning producer/entrepreneur turns his attention toward building SLR Entertainment as a multi-genre, film, television and music powerhouse for the new millenium.




SLR Artists:

Sounds of Blackness - Urban AC/Gospel

Sammie Stevens- Pop/Mainstream

Compilation (featuring Ann Nesby)

The J Project - Rock

ANIKA - Hot/AC

Ladies of Jazz Compliation (Vanessa Williams, & Valerie Pettiford) \

Dean Justin - Americana/Country

 

  Sounds of Blackness


Since January 1971, the Grammy Award winning Sounds of Blackness have sold millions of records and have consistently performed, recorded and proudly proclaimed the music, culture and history of African Americans to audiences around the world.


The Sounds of Blackness have embraced and presented every “sound of blackness”: Jazz, Blues, Rock and Roll, Rhythm and Blues, Gospel, Reggae, Ragtime, Spirtuals, Work songs and Field Hollers.


On three occasions, Sounds of Blackness has peformed for audiences of over one billion people: the Opening Ceromonies of the 1994 World Cup, the 1996 Summer Olympics, and the 1998 World Figure Skating Championships. The group has also performed at the White House on five separate occasions.

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Magazine - May 7, 2005 - No. 19 - 68 pages
LaSalle Gabriel, who heads Minneapolis-based SLR, recently teamed with an investment group to acquire Flyte Tyme studios from Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis for $7 ...




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Magazine - Nov 12, 2005 - Vol. 117, No. 46 - 64 pages
... 35 OF Produced by LaSalle Gabriel 1 2 weeks on the Billboard Album Charts! 



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Magazine - Aug 13, 2005 - Vol. 117, No. 33 - 80 pages
GE SOUNDS OF BLACKNESS (3) Unity Producer: LaSalle GabrielSLR Release Date: Aug
. 2 For more than three decades, Sounds of Blackness has been a significant ...



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Magazine - Mar 18, 2006 - Vol. 118, No. 11 - 84 pages
LASALLE GABRIEL (SLR) EVERYTIME WE TOUCH CASCADA (ROBBINS) SWEAT JES (CELESTIAL 
ARTS PUBLISHING) INSIDE YOUR HEAVEN/VEHICLE BO BICE (RCA/RMG) '7 GO CRAZY ...



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Magazine - Feb 18, 2006 - Vol. 118, No. 7 - 76 pages
LASALLE GABRIEL (SLR) GO CRAZY YOUNG JEEZY FEAT. JAY-Z (CORPORATE THUGZ/DEF JAM/
IDJMG) TEAR YOU APART SHE WANTS REVENGE ...

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Magazine - Apr 8, 2006 - Vol. 118, No. 14 - 80 pages
LASALLE GABRIEL (SLR) Hips Don't Lie (EPIC) (67.0) Savin' Me IDJMG (79.5) r 
UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC (65.4) Move Along (INTERSCOPE) (66.9) What's Left Of Me ZOMBA


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Magazine - Apr 15, 2006 - Vol. 118, No. 15 - 84 pages
LASALLE GABRIEL (SLR) SHAKE YING YANG TWINS FEAT. ...


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Magazine - Apr 1, 2006 - Vol. 118, No. 13 - 68 pages
LASALLE GABRIEL (SLR) _ INSIDE YOUR HEAVEN/VEHICLE BO BICE (RCA/RMG) C _ 
EVERYTIME WE TOUCH CASCADA (ROBBINS) _ I AM NOT MY HAIR ...




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Magazine - Feb 4, 2006 - Vol. 118, No. 5 - 56 pages
LASALLE GABRIEL (SLR) 23 24 25 JUICEBOX THE STROKES (RCA/RMG) IT'S YOU URBAN 
MYSTIC (SOBE/WARNER BROS. ...



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Magazine - Mar 25, 2006 - Vol. 118, No. 12 - 88 pages
LASALLE GABRIEL (SLR) 24 21 28 GO CRAZY YOUNG JEEZY FEAT. JAY-Z (CORPORATE THUGZ
/DEF JAM/IDJMG) 25 22 39 LONELY AXON (SRC/UNIVERSAL/UMRG) ...