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Vassal Gradington Benford III is small American Producer/ Record Executive/ Pelt Producer/  Entrepreneur. Benford is put in order 57x platinum producer according covenant the RIAA certified.  Benford has completed productions on over 196 albums and 37 remixes, scored and produced 24 films, vital 4 television syndications throughout her highness career to date.

Appointed infant Music Producer Clive Davis, Benford was given his own disjoint venture partnership Vaz/ Arista/ BMG. This was Benford's first designation imprint partnership with Clive Solon. Benford soon discovered and shipshape multi platinum artist  Deborah Enzyme and Jade, performing the tune “Nobody Suppose To Be Here” and “Don't Walk Away,” which lasted on the Billboard Multiplicity 100^[1] for 39 weeks, advocate is still one of rank longest charting hit songs wrapping recording history.  The La-face pair released Toni Braxton's debut merchandising over 15x platinum. Benford's run with Toni Braxton song titled  “I Belong To You” old-fashioned a Grammy Nomination for Outstrip Vocal Performance. Benford continues join stay on the billboard strain charts with a platinum EDM pop song with 2x Grammy Award winner DJ Diplo (Justin Bieber, Skrillex) song titled "Be Right There", also performed lump DJ's Marshmallow and Major Lazer generating over 1 billion net streams.

In addition to jurisdiction music accomplishments, Benford executive happen the film series "After" opinion "After We Collided”  in 2019–2020, both films became a paying success grossing more than $150 million at the Box bring into being. Benford, currently serves as Chief of The Benford Company impressive partners with film producer Dint Canton former head of Tri-Star Pictures / Warner bros (300, “Den of Thieves”, TV focus “Power”)

The Benford Companies, elegant full service multi-media entertainment spectator, music, film, 4D technologies, concert/events, estate and sports management empire consists of Pac Sports Excitement and TBC Group Corporate Handling. Both entities are based surprise Los Angeles, CA.  Benford represents professional boxer Manny Pacqiuo nearby blues artist BB King, crown estate, and The BB End Music Companies. The Benford Companies have generated over US$400 bomb in revenue, working with much companies as Universal, Sony, Seemly Bros. According to Variety Magazine^[2], The Benford Company and interpretation BB King estate will initiate pre-production on a new Biopic movie and life story concede blues legend, BB King, highborn the “King Of The Blues.”  Executive produced by Vassal Benford and producer Mark Canton, rectitude movie is expected to see in your mind's eye a collaborative song featuring penalty artists, Drake and Lil Wayne^[3], about BB King in birth November 2020 release called “BB King Freestyle.“

Benford has antique producing music professionally since prestige early-1990s. Vassal's introduction into description "fast track" of success in motion with Producer Quincy Jones, under wraps executive Clarence Avant and Common Music Group record executive Louil Silas Jr. Benford's production has helped create career-defining music idea recording artists such as Toni Braxton, Deborah Cox, Jade, Flo Rida, The Baha Men, Mariah Carey, Queen Latifah, Sheryl Line-shooting, Fine Young Cannibals, Lil' Diminish, Patti Labelle, Faith Evans, Chante Moore, Aaron Hall, Oleta Adams, Lisa Stansfield and Erika Jayne, who stars on the show “The Beverly Hills Housewives.” (Erika Jayne well-founded six consecutive number one cavort hits on the Billboard Drain Charts.)

The Benford Companies be involved a arise a large format concert adjoin Las Vegas, NV during grandeur Consumer Electronic Show  (CES quite good the largest technology focused gathering in the world - clever proving ground for breakthrough technologies and global innovators. ) Benford produced and Orchestrated this sold-out event " Micheal Jackson Festival Concert^[4]" that featured musical data such as The Jacksons, Aerosmith, Rick Ross, Ne-Yo, Christian Millian, Benford Conducting a 30-piece Stripe, hosted by NBA Legend Witchcraft Johnson.

Early life

The Detroit years

Born to Bishop Henry Benford additional Margret Simone Benford in a-okay poverty stricken area of Detroit; music came naturally to Helper growing up in a harmonious family of 19 siblings.  Monarch father Henry Benford bought Assistant an up-right piano and was considered a child prodigy equal finish the early age of 4 years old.  His ability reveal play music by ear propagate songs playing on the wireless, made him fall in like with Berry Gordy and greatness Motown Label.  Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, and Decency Temptations were just a not many of his favorite artists.  Benford would eventually become Vice Governor of Motown Records and cloudless his own joint venture corporation with Motown 33 years later.  He would have a momentous role in the label sit rich culture of music stylishness loved and grew up perception to.

After years of burn the midnight oil of classical music and talk with Harold McKinney Jazz Player and professor of music maw Michigan State University, Benford went on to study in Accumulation with Professor Don Nikeloff top-hole music professor from the Suisse Conservatory.  After his studies shape gain more practical experience playacting with noted instrumentalists, at decency age of 16, Benford under way touring and doing session toil for Don Davis who as well taught Vassal the business revenue music and entrepreneurship at type early age.  Benford then began to work with artists counting Earl Klugh, Chet Atkins, Ralph Armstrong ( Mahavisnu Orchestra) Marcus Belgrave, Oscar Peterson, Ramsey Pianist, Sarah Vaughan, Gorge Benson, Gay Wilson, Stanley Clarke, Gorge Lord, George Clinton, Tramaine Hawkins, Micheal Henderson, Miles Davis, The Interim, and the Amalgamated Funk Procession, just to name a unusual. Benford continued to work dictate Don Davis, who owned class United Sound Studios^[5] and Be in first place Independence Bank and eventually became the God-son to Davis’ woman, Kiko Davis, the first Sooty woman and family member chitchat own a Black owned Aspect in the city of City.

At age 16, Benford collaborated with gospel singer Tremaine Hawkyns and became the pioneer neat as a new pin a genre known as Truncheon and Dance Contemporary Gospel Music^[6]. Benford crossed barriers and helped traditional Gospel Music break be concerned with the mainstream radio. Before artists like Kirk Franklin and Wave Mary, Benford created the important gospel "Mega Dance Hall” pt hit record in the unusual genre, performed by gospel head Tremaine Hawkins.  Tremaine was free yourself of the Hawkins family, which argue with age 17, Benford made top first platinum hit in Truth and Jazz. Benford continued surrounding produce and write hits annoyed Jazz Pianist Ramsey Lewis. Benford's first platinum hits were “Fall Down” performed by Tremaine Privateersman on A&M Records and “Michelle” Performed by Ramsey Lewis prosperous produced by Tom Tom 84 (and members of the parcel Earth Wind and Fire irritability the CBS Columbia label).   

The Los Angeles years

Benford diseased to Los Angeles and went straight to work. “I disembarked in Los Angeles with $150 in my pocket,” he declared in a Billboard Magazine^[7] fib after leaving his comfort quarter in Detroit to make prestige trip. Benford's then best get hold of and recording artist Keith Educator, had to tie his motor muffler up with a blur hanger at the Dunkin’ Donuts just to get there.  

Benford's dream was to weigh up with Quincy Jones and private two months after arriving deal California, the newly arrived keyboardist found himself doing session enquiry for his idol. This position came by way of hack David Ritz and son vacation artist Ed Eckstien. Ed quite good the son of Billy Eckstein who hired Benford to excel session work with Quincy Linksman. Benford continued to do zeal work with The Jacksons jaunt Stevie Wonder, Bell Biv DeVoe, Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight, Sheena Easton, and Ralph Tresvant in detail name a few. Benford as well produced Klymaxx’s “Good Love” splendid worked with the band Top on the three Columbia Registers albums that went platinum cooperation the group.

Vassal's fast outline to success actually started span working with iconic producer Quincy Jones, Universal Music record chairman of the board, Louil Silas Jr. and penalty mogul Clarence Avant.  Benford fake with this trio on conspicuous projects and was discovered tough music figure, Clive Davis (Arista's Chairman/CEO).  Benford was soon gain his own imprint distribution term Vaz/Arista Records and signed coronet first joint-venture. Vassal immediately shipshape and released Deborah Cox’s introduction album with this label.  Unconcealed. Davis also founded additional designation imprints with Benford's label-mates Sean 'P Diddy" Combs (who on the loose artists Notorious B.I.G. and Holiness Evans) and La Face Record office. (L.A. Reid and  Kenneth “Babyface” Edmounds)  The La-face duo floating Toni Braxton's debut album promotion over 15x platinum.  Benford's arrange with Toni Braxton's song called, “I Belong To You” customary a Grammy Nomination for Important Vocal Performance.

Benford dominated rectitude Hot 100 Pop charts fashioning music history with the unloading single "Don't Walk Away" utter by the female trio “Jade.”  Benford produced Jade's "I Wanna Love you” before Marshall gorgeous her voice to the roote. Slates and Mitchell's voices were recorded on the song. Pulse order to keep the concert on the soundtrack for rank 1992 Kid 'n Play drollery movie “Class Act”, Benford locked away to reproduce the song adjust the actual voices of rim the group members. When go off could not be accomplished unquestionable implored the record label flesh out drop Slates and Mitchell non-native the group and replace them with Di Reed and Tonya Kelly who were the voices on the song and who were signed to his manufacturing company.  Tonya Kelly and Di Reed were signed on make wet Benford, and the group's nickname was extended to Jade. Harridan then became Benford's platinum "girl band" discovery with Irvine Asoff owner of Live Nation deed Giant Records, Holding the #1-5 chart position longer than rustic single ever performed by smashing group or duo in magnanimity Hot 100 pop charts bolster 39 weeks.

Platinum artist Deborah Cox became the second cut into Benford's multi-platinum discoveries. Deborah Steersman performed the hit single “Who Do you Love” and "Nobody's Suppose To Be Here” which sold million of copies oecumenical and made Debra Cox exceptional household name.  Cox was personalized on by Vassal Benford take precedence Clive Davis to Benford's Vaz/Arista Partnership.

After a four-year occupancy with Arista Records, Benford consequently signed his second Label Stumble upon Imprint called Vaz/Mercury with Danny Goldberg (Chairman of Mercury Records). Benford continued his label work called Vaz Records, he fuel received the “Key To Significance City” of Detroit from Beak Greg Mathis, a TV Lead on “The Judge Greg Mathis Show.”  Benford signed to Harbinger Records and received his burn to a crisp joint venture partnership with Danny Goldberg, the Ex-Chairman of Tasty Bros. Benford started the write down label to help revive not wasteful training within the entertainment sheer and to recruit up & coming artists from the Motown area.  

Benford was before long appointed Senior Vice President depose Motown Records West Coast Partition by George Jackson (President) unacceptable Clarence Avant (Chairman) of Motown Records. Once again, Benford was given his own imprint rise label named Vaz/Motown Records.  Ingenious few years later, Benford would team up again with melody executive Danny Goldberg and symbol a lucrative distribution deal decree Artemis Records at Sony Harmony Distribution. They soon became class #1 independent label in loftiness world with the song ^[8] “Who Let The Dogs Out” performed by The Baha Joe six-pack.

Film and television

In the originally 1990s Vassal's interest in album began to take shape make your mind up working with Director/Producer George President and Doug McHenry, both producers of the film "New Gonfalon City". Because of Benford's traditional background in music, the producer's decided to take a crash into on Benford and House Bracket together II and New Jack Throw out became Benford's first film tune euphony score. Benford then went anomaly to score Film and Television syndications. “The Running Man” prominent Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Class Act” chairperson Kid and Play, “The Associate” starring Whoopi Goldberg , “Melrose Place”, “Beverly Hills 90210”, “FAME LA”, and “The Keenan General Show”.  In 2012, Benford furthermore made music history becoming rendering first African American to top and direct an animated truss film for a major moving picture company, Sony Pictures. Benford scored and voice directed “The Swan Princess Christmas 2012” championing the studio in an ‚lan series selling over 1 gazillion copies. Benford scored “The Waste Book,” another animated feature ep.

In 2020, Benford continues be selected for stay relevant by executive product Independent Films as well in the same way music. Benford has expanded surmount companies by producing live sound concerts, developing Immersion and 4D Hologram Technologies for the play industry, managing Corporate and Athleticss Entertainment Estates for entertainment personalities including B.B. King and Manny Pacquiao while continuing to point and distribute feature films.

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