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Background information
Ayers performing at Glastonbury Festival, 2019
Born	September 10, 1940 (age 80) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Genres	Jazz, jazz-fusion, funk, acid jazz, disco, soul jazz, R&B, house, hip hop
Occupation(s)	Musician, songwriter, film scorer
Instruments	Vocals, vibraphone, keyboards
Years active	1962–present
Labels	Atlantic, Polydor, Ichiban, Golden Mink, Nature Sounds, Columbia
Associated acts	RAMP, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Fela Kuti, Tyler The Creator, Edwin Birdsong
Website	Official website

Roy Ayers (born September 10, 1940) is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer, vibraphone player, and music producer.^[1] Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped pioneer jazz-funk.^[2] He is a key figure in the acid jazz movement,^[3] and has been dubbed 'The Godfather of Neo Soul'.^[4] He is best known for his compositions 'Everybody Loves the Sunshine', 'Searchin', and 'Running Away'.^[5] At one time, he was said to have more sampled hits by rappers than any other artist.^[6]

Biography[edit]

Early life[edit]

Ayers was born on September 10, 1940 in Los Angeles. He grew up in a musical family, where his father played trombone and his mother played piano.^[7]^[8] At the age of five, he was given his first pair of vibraphone mallets by Lionel Hampton. The area of Los Angeles that Ayers grew up in, South Park (later known as South Central) was at the center of the Southern CaliforniaBlack music scene. The schools he attended (Wadsworth Elementary, Nevins Middle School, and Thomas Jefferson High School) were all close to the famed Central Avenue, Los Angeles' equivalent of Harlem's Lenox Avenue and Chicago's State Street. Roy would likely have been exposed to music as it not only emanated from the many nightclubs and bars in the area, but also poured out of many of the homes where the musicians who kept the scene alive lived in and around Central. During high school, Ayers sang in the church choir^[9] and fronted a band named The Latin Lyrics, in which he played steel guitar and piano.^[10] His high school, Thomas Jefferson High School, produced various talented musicians, such as Dexter Gordon.

Career[edit]

Ayers started recording as a bebop sideman in 1962 and rose to prominence when he dropped out of City College^[11] and joined jazz flutist Herbie Mann in 1966.^[12]

In the early-1970s, Roy Ayers started his own band called Roy Ayers Ubiquity, a name he chose because ubiquity means a state of being everywhere at the same time.^[13]

Ayers was responsible for the highly regarded soundtrack to Jack Hill's 1973 blaxploitation film Coffy, which starred Pam Grier. He later moved from a jazz-funk sound to R&B, as seen on Mystic Voyage, which featured the songs 'Evolution' and the underground disco hit 'Brother Green (The Disco King)', as well as the title track from his 1976 album Everybody Loves the Sunshine.

In 1977, Ayers produced an album by the group RAMP, Come into Knowledge. That fall, he had his biggest hit with 'Running Away'.

In late 1979, Ayers scored his only top ten single on Billboard'sHot Disco/Dance chart with 'Don't Stop The Feeling', which was also the leadoff single from his 1980 album No Stranger to Love, whose title track was sampled in Jill Scott's 2001 song 'Watching Me' from her debut album Who Is Jill Scott?

In the late-1970s, Ayers toured in Nigeria for six weeks with AfrobeatpioneerFela Kuti, one of the African continent's most recognizable musicians.^[14] In 1980, Phonodisk released Music of Many Colors in Nigeria, featuring one side led by Ayers' group and the other led by Africa '70.^[7]^[15]

In 1981, Ayers produced an album with the singer Sylvia Striplin, Give Me Your Love (Uno Melodic Records, 1981).^[7] In the same year, 1981, he also produced a second album called Africa, Center of the World on Polydor records along with James Bedford and Ayers's bass player William Henry Allen. Allen can be heard talking to his daughter on the track 'Intro/The River Niger'. The album was recorded at the Sigma Sound Studios, New York.

Ayers performed a solo on John 'Jellybean' Benitez's production of Whitney Houston's 'Love Will Save The Day' from her second multi-Platinum studio album Whitney. The single was released in July 1988 by Arista Records.

Ayers has played his live act for millions of people across the globe, including Japan, Australia, England and other parts of Europe.^[16]

Ayers is known for helping to popularize feel good music in the 1970s, stating that 'I like that happy feeling all of the time, so that ingredient is still there. I try to generate that because it's the natural way I am'.^[17] The types of music that he used to do this consisted of funk, salsa, jazz, rock, soul and rap.^[18]

1990s to present[edit]

Roy Ayers, Perth, 2011

In 1992, Ayers released two albums, Drive and Wake Up, for the hip-hop label Ichiban Records.^[7] and also collaborated with Rick James for an album and is quoted to have been a very close friend of his.^[19]

In 1993, he appeared on the record Guru's Jazzmatazz Vol.1 featuring on the vibraphone in the song 'Take a Look (At Yourself)' and the following year appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation album Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool. The album, meant to raise awareness and funds in support of the AIDS epidemic in relation to the African-American community, was heralded as 'Album of the Year' by Time Magazine.

During the 2000s and 2010s, Ayers ventured into house music, collaborating with such stalwarts of the genre as Masters at Work and Kerri Chandler.

Ayers started two record labels, Uno Melodic and Gold Mink Records. The first released several LPs, including Sylvia Striplin's, while the second folded after a few singles.^[7]

In 2004, Ayers put out a collection of unreleased recordings called Virgin Ubiquity: Unreleased recordings 1976–1981 which allowed fans to hear cuts that didn't make it onto the classic Polydor albums from his more popular years.^[20]

He has also worked in collaborations with soul songstress Erykah Badu and other artists on his 2004 album Mahogany Vibes.^[21]

Roy Ayers hosts the fictitious radio station 'Fusion FM' in Grand Theft Auto IV (2008).

In 2015, he appeared on Tyler, The Creator's album Cherry Bomb on the track 'Find Your Wings'.^[22]