Lee Evans (producer)
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Lee Evans, also known as LeRoi Evans and LeRoy Evans, is an award winning music producer, recording engineer, songwriter, musician, and the CEO and co-owner of JAMBOX Entertainment. He currently resides in Manhattan, New York.
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Starting as a child, Lee Evans wrote, arranged, played piano and sang for young harmony group “The Fourth Edition” a group that went on to win amateur night at the Apollo six times. After graduating from the High School Of Music & Art in New York City and attending the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, he started performing as a band member and/or musical director for acts such as The Jimmy Castor Bunch, Brass Construction, New Edition, Willie Colon and as a musical director for The Force M.D.s, Afrika Bambaataa, and others.
On the local scene he did a stint as the house band keyboard player at a popular night club in Manhattan, Here he backed up such notable artists as Johnny Kemp, Me'lissa Morgan, and Keith Sweat.
In 1980 Evans founded JAMBOX Recording Studios in his basement apartment in The Bronx, which by 1992 he had expanded (along with co-owner Cathy Palmisano) into JAMBOX Entertainment, a full service recording facility in Manhattan.
As a producer for production company 4Sight Music Productions, he produced the Naked Cowboy's debut album "The Year of the Cowboy".
In 1999, Lee Evans started the AET Audio Engineering Course, with the intentions of teaching his audio engineering techniques to new music artists and producers.
Lee Evans is also a co-founder and the music director of Reach Out Inc. a non-profit organization that educates and promotes awareness about the perils of illegal drugs, alcohol abuse, tobacco, crime, violence, prejudice, and life threatening diseases such as AIDS. Reach Out Inc.'s presentations are characterized by the use of interactive, high-energy presentations that intertwine music, dance, and motivational speaking.
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