⠀Award-winning Hammond ® organist/keyboardist Vel Lewis is an accomplished singer, producer, and arranger, whose music cancan be found on well-known TV shows The Sopranos, Mad About You, Friends, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and many more. Vel has performed on the same concert stages with Frankie Beverly and Maze, The O'Jays, Grover Washington, The Spinners, The Whispers, The Stylistics, The Supremes, to name a few. He also toured with Dionne Warwick on her World Tour for three years before embarking on his own solo career.
⠀⠀⠀His single entitled "Song For My Love" from his EP "Colors of Soul", a highly charged Jazz and Soul EP that is superbly produced by Vel, combined with the Midas touch of chart-topping producer Greg Manning, landed on the Groove Jazz Music.com "Top 100" chart in 2014 with over 1,600 spins and 375,000 streams. His latest single, “Houston Strong” which he dedicated to all the Harvey survivors, landed on the 61st Annual Grammy Awards ballot for consideration, making it his third song on a Grammy ballot. Vel Lewis is also President and Founder of F2F Music Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit performing arts organization, located in Fort Bend County. Visit F2FMusicFoundation.org for more information.
SHOW NOTES:
1:06 THANKFULNESS & NEW PROJECTS
3:19 THREE TIME GRAMMY NOMINEE
3:40 WHAT MUSIC HAS TAUGHT ME
5:46 THE CORPORATE WORLD
6:43 TV MUSIC PRODUCTION
7:01 TOURING WITH DIONNE WARWICK
7:39 FORMATIVE YEARS
13:01 THE FUTURES
15:37 THE PORTA B
16:19 PLAYING THE ORGAN
18:57 SINGING OR PLAYING?
20:51 GOOD PRODUCTION
21:30 FIRST RECORDINGS
24:23 AMERICAN BANDSTAND
26:01 THE MUSIC BUSINESS
32:00 - F2F MUSIC FOUNDATION
46:28 COLOR SOUND, LLC
51:22 THE UNASKED QUESTION & MY BOOK
54:09 “88 MORE WAYS MUSIC CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE”
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