Roy Aires, “The King of New Sol” who was born and raised on Vernon Street, south of the city center of Los Angeles, and watched more than 60 of his songs that took samples by those who were hip -hop and spirit artists, died on Wednesday in New York. He was the commander of the band and Vibraphonist 84.
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“I grew up as I listened to the legendary Roy Aires,” said former Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday at X. “Everyone loves the sun” is one of my favorite song, and he recorded some of the most important moments in my life. When Dog [Emhoff] I was dating, one of the first things Cole [Emhoff] And I am ready, our love was for Roy Aires. “
“Everyone loves Sunshine”, a few blows when it was first released, was a hymn southern California since its release in 1976. The song Soul that is driven by jazz music is largely due to its use in hip -hop and Soul music, with excerpts from the song from which samples were taken by Dre Dre, Mary J. Blige, J Dilla, 2pac J.
Hundreds of other artists, including Tyler, the creator, Gille Scott and Mudal, took samples from Airez, and they got a harmonious place between music producers and De G. His work in the seventies of the last century as commander of a group of Six Roy Aires, everywhere, helped empty the sub -gene that is called jazz.
“If I do not have music, I will not even want to be here,” I told Aires The Times in 2011. “It is like escaping when there is no escape. Escape temporary moments.” He said he is happy because he never asked anyone to taste his music, although he thought at that time that about 60 artists did this.
He said: “They just started doing it.” “It was great to hear people put their spin on my voices.”
Roy Edwards Aires was born on September 10, 1940, in southern Los Angeles for a musical family – Abi Trumbon played the role of the piano. He grew up against the background of the jazz scene in Central Avenue during the 1940s and 1950s. The region (then known as South Park) was a relatively peaceful lighthouse for American -African culture, as it was strengthened by stars, including distinguished musicians Dixter Gordon and Charles Mingos.
Iris told the Times newspaper in 2011 how when he was 5 years old in the crowd at the Pyramone Theater, receiving the first collection of a great hammer from Lionel Hampton. “At that time, my mother and my father told me that he put some spiritual feelings on me.” They became his favorite weapon after picking up vicers as a student at Thomas Jefferson High School at the age of 17.
Airez released his first album, “West Coast Pains”, in 1962. He moved to New York City in 1966 after that It came out of Los Angeles College And I started walking with Fall player Hirby Man.
With Argerie Ayers, who married him in 1973, the Music Son MTUME and his daughter Ayana, who later became his manager. He also had Son, writer Nabil AirezWith a ballet dancer that turned into Louise Proveman.
As the commander of the band, Ayers albums include 20 studio records, nine collaborative versions and six live publications. He released 17 individuals, primarily in the 1970s and eighties of the last century, including “do not stop feeling”, “hot”, “running far”, “Get Up, Get on” and “In The Dark”.
He performed the soundtrack of Blaxploitation “Coffy”, which he co -was written by his star Bam Jarir and director Jacques Hall. Quintin Tarantino Festa Retro theater, café, Coffy’s Coffy, praises the 1973 projectTarantino used music from “Coffy” in his movie Grier Grier “Jackie Brown” in 1997.
“Polygram president came to me in 1973 and said:” Roy, can you make soundtrack? I said, “Of course.” I have never done a pictorial music in my life Tell the musician Stephen Timos In 2014. “So they sent me to California and showed me the movie and showed me everything I had to do and did that.” He said that his experience in working with big teams for easy work.
The Aires profession obtained a great revival in the nineties, where, during the era of the golden hip -hop, he cleared its wide cattle and made his music. The title “King of Neo Soul” came from the singer and songwriter Erykah Badu, one of the artists who held a partnership with him in his record “Mahogany Vibe” for the year 2004.
“I wrote the song because I felt it,” Airez told the Times in 2020 via email when asked about the location of “Everyone who loves sunlight” in the culture of southern California. “Perhaps because it is sunny and beautiful on the western coast, which came through.”
The Deputy Editor -in -Chief of the Times Nate Jackson and former employee writer Randal Roberts contributed to this report.
