Leroy Burgess

In 2019, Burgess teamed up with Louie Vega and Patrick Adams for a new project, "Louie Vega Presents Leroy Burgess & The Universal Robot Band Feat. Patrick Adams ‎– Barely Breaking Even", released in September 2019

In October 2019, while on a European tour with his new band from Lyon, France called Saving Coco, group members of Black Ivory (Stuart Bascombe and Russell Patterson), joined Burgess on stage and performed for the first time together at London's Famous Jazz Cafe. where they also received Lifetime Achievement Awards commemorating Black Ivory 50th Anniversary. In addition, Black Ivory was featured in a 13-page article in the London magazine, The Soul Survivors

Burgess is a contributing writer on the single, "Gettin' Up" on Rapper and Musician Q-Tip's album, "The Renaissance", which was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards in 2010.

In 2007, Burgess released Throwback: Harlem 79-83, followed in 2010 by Throwback: Vol.II: Sugar Hill 82-86, the first albums under his own name and most recently in 2011, Continuum, the reunion album with Black Ivory.

Two CDs have been released containing his work with Black Ivory, one of the first album and the second, consisting of their first two albums. Burgess also released two Anthology albums of his own on London's Soul Brother Records label entitled "Anthology: Volume One: The Voice" and "Anthology: Volume Two: The Producer", which chronicled his work in the 1980s.

Burgess was a member of Black Ivory and lead vocalist on the majority of their hits in the early 1970s, he made his debut with the group at the age of 16.

The group scored a number of R&B hits in the 1970s, including "Don't Turn Around" (a Top 40 R&B hit released in 1969), "You And I", "I'll Find A Way (The Loneliest Man In Town)", "Spinning Around", "What Goes Around (Comes Around)" and "Will We Ever Come Together". Though they recorded several uptempo tracks, such as "Big Apple Rock", "Walking Downtown (On A Saturday Night)", "What Goes Around (Comes Around)" and, later, "Mainline" (written by Burgess, but recorded after he left the group), Black Ivory faced tough competition from the rise of disco, but proved unable to compete when disco became the dominant music style. However, "Mainline" broke through the group's difficulties of creating a hit dance record and has since become an internationally revered dance classic.

As a solo artist, Burgess had numerous club hits, beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s including "Let's Do It", "Fire Night Dance", "Heartbreaker", "Stranger" and "You Got That Something". Burgess chose to take a hiatus from Black Ivory in 1977, and developed several bands of his own, which include Convertion and LOGG, before joining twins TaharQa and TundeRa Aleem as their Lead vocalist Aleem, which had hits with "Confusion", "Release Yourself", and "Hooked On Your Love". A 1991 release by the band titled "Running After You" received favourable reviews on release. He also continued to work with producer Adams in various studio groups. In addition to the hits he had with Aleem, Burgess was featured vocalist with Adams' groups Bumble Bee Unlimited, Logg, Inner Life (which also featured Jocelyn Brown), The Universal Robot Band, the Peter Jacques Band, Dazzle and M.O.D.E. (with whom he recorded "Heaven"), and did lead vocals on "Much Too Much" by Phreek.

Leroy Burgess (born August 20, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, keyboard player, recording artist, and record producer.