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  1. Kashif was born Michael Jones [6] on December 26, 1956 (Some media outlets list his birth year as 1959), [4] [7] in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.His only connection to his birth family is his birth certificate, which indicates that his biological mother was incarcerated when he was four months old.

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    Contemporary R&B musician as a singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist who signed with Arista Records as a solo artist in 1983. His instrumental song "The Mood" earned a Grammy nomination, and his second album Send Me Your Love garnered two Grammy nominations as well.

    When he was 15 years old, he was recruited by the funk band B. T. Express to be their keyboard player and vocalist. He left them in 1978 and would perform with Stephanie Millsas her keyboardist.

    He worked with then newcomer Whitney Houston on the hit single "You Give Good Love" and "Where Are You" as a producer. He helped launch the career of Kenny G.

    He was born Michael Jones in Harlem, NY. He was put in foster care when he was four months old after his mother was incarcerated.

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  2. Kashif was born Michael Jones [6] on December 26, 1956 (Some media outlets list his birth year as 1959), [4] [7] in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. His only connection to his birth family is his birth certificate, which indicates that his biological mother was incarcerated when he was four months old.

  3. Kashif was born Michael Jones on December 26, 1959, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. His only connection to his birth family is his birth certificate, which indicates that his biological mother was incarcerated when he was four months old. He was immediately put in foster care.

  4. Oct 5, 2016 · He was born Michael Jones in Harlem in 1956, and at 4 months old entered the foster care system after his mother was incarcerated. ... Kashif attempted to play along — he had a Bobby Brown-esque ...

  5. Sep 27, 2016 · Born Michael Jones on Dec. 26, 1956, in Harlem, he was introduced in elementary school to music in the form of a $3 flute. Encouraged by teachers, he learned the trumpet, piano, saxophone and tuba ...

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  7. Sep 27, 2016 · Kashif was a Harlem, New York-born wunderkind who muscled on to the music scene with such speed, power and confidence that for a time he seemed like a one-man hit factory. On black radio in the 1970s, the sounds of funk and disco were giving way to a new strain of black pop that made ingenious use of emerging music technology of the time.

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