keyboardist Bernard Wright has passed (sampled on Snoop's G's and Hustlas, LL's Who do you love and..."

[DaMos Supreme]

R.I.P.

 

[Rollie Forbes]

Bernard Wright's music always reminded me of George Duke's: funky & timeless. He gave us some classics.
Rest in peace to Mr. Wright.

 

[Cape Town JHB]

I have all his albums and he worked very closely with the great bass player and musical director Marcus Miller, Bernard was very young (a teenager in the 80s)..

Marcus Miller used him in a lot of his live performances in the 80s and early to mid 90s too.

Him and Hubert Eaves are 2 great keyboardists from the 80s.


58, damn Bernard.


BTW the new Coli sucks

 

[Dynamite James]

I had no idea his mother is Roberta Flack

 

[Low End Derrick]

Damn RIP

 

[breakfuss]

Going through his discog now. This is great stuff, OP. Thanks for the history lesson on this brother.

I had no idea his mother is Roberta Flack

She was his godmother.

 

[Joe Budden]

How do I know that you won’t go…..

 

[NormanConnors]

Damn RIP. The Nard album is a CLASSIC. Breh was a prodigy.

 

[Rozay Oro]

R.I.P

 

[old pig]

damn…only 58…rip

 

[breakfuss]

This man was responsible for one of the most influential summer songs of my childhood.


Rest In Power.

This r&b group sampled it as well. But damn the song is absolute bird babble as yall like to say lmao

 

[old pig]

This r&b group sampled it as well. But damn the song is absolute bird babble as yall like to say lmao

lol oh wow I remember this…this wasn’t bad…they reminded me of destiny’s child at the time

 

[The Gentleman]

That’s like family to me. My queens roots are deep.

“Who do you love” has arguably the best chorus in RNB history.

RIP

I don’t know about that but I will say he was a very talented musician. It’s a shame that his talent wasn’t recognized and utilize as it could’ve been.

What’s sad is that more rappers don’t reach out to these older musicians for production. There’s a knowledge gap there and a lot of information that could be put to use.

 

[The Gentleman]

Rip heard he passed away from accident

What happened?

 

[breakfuss]

lol oh wow I remember this…this wasn’t bad…they reminded me of destiny’s child at the time

Song (beat wise) ain't bad at all it's just the trash ass lyrics:

Most guys they think that i'm a user
They think i take and then i never give
It's time for girls to make a statement
I'm going for mine, this lady's got to live
FOH with that . They were bad as hell though...gorgeous. Hope Bernard got paid nicely off all these samples.