| Name |
Teddy Riley |
| Height |
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| Naionality |
American |
| Date of Birth |
8-October-1967 |
| Place of Birth |
Harlem, New York United States |
| Famous for |
singing |
Edward Riley, professionally known as Teddy Riley, is a Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter, musician, keyboardist and record producer credited with the creation of the New Jack Swing genre. Through his production work with Michael Jackson, Bobby Brown, Doug E. Fresh, Today, Keith Sweat, Heavy D., Usher, Jane Child, etc. and membership of the groups Guy and Blackstreet, Riley is credited with having a massive impact and seminal influence on the formation of contemporary R&B, hip-hop, soul and pop since the 1980s. Riley is reputed to be worth $80 million due to his productions."
In 2009, Riley performed with Guy at the BET Awards. In the same year, Riley worked with Amerie and Robin Thicke on their respective albums. Leading on from his work on Snoop Dogg's album Ego Trippin' Riley became part of the production supergroup QDT, which features DJ Quik as well as Snoop Dogg. Teddy produced and co-wrote an album track "Teeth" with Lady Gaga for her EP The Fame Monster. Speaking in March 2010 to Blues & Soul's Pete Lewis - Riley said that he was no longer affiliated with Guy (Riley last performed with the group in October 2010). Riley also said that the current line-up of Blackstreet comprised himself, Chauncey Hannibal, Dave Hollister and Sherman 'J-Stylz' Tinsdale. He confirmed that he was working on a new Blackstreet album, though intended to release his own album - entitled 'TRX' - first. Artists he could possibly be working with for the project included Stevie Wonder, Elton John, plus his own new, upcoming acts. However, Hannibal stopped performing with the group and the lineup became Riley, Dave Hollister, Mark Middleton and Eric Williams. In 2012, Hannibal returned to Blackstreet. Mark Middleton & Eric Williams left the group. The group's lineup now consists of original members Riley, Hannibal, Hollister and newest member Glenn Adams aka Lenny Harold.
In an August 2010, co-executor of the Michael Jackson estate, John Branca, confirmed that a posthumous album of Michael Jackson would be released, containing work done in the previous five years with producers Neff-U, Christopher "Tricky" Stewart and Riley himself, as well as work written and produced solely by Jackson himself. The album Michael was released on December 14, 2010 in the United States. After the release, several people questioned some of the music Riley produced for the project. Riley insisted all of the songs were sung by Jackson. However, Riley made comments in an interview with Dan Dodds (aka Soul Jones) in which he stated that there were some elements of his voice in the music. "They may use some elements from me, put together ideas but I haven’t been working on the new album" Riley is reported to have said. He claimed that vocal processing was done which added artifacts to Jackson's voice.
Recently, Riley has stepped into the Korean music market. Riley worked with singer/rapper Jay Park on an English track titled "Demon", which was originally meant for Michael Jackson.
Riley produced a mini album for the Korean girl group RaNia. Riley is one of the producers for Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, new debut solo album, Still Cool, as a solo producer and as a part of QDT, with DJ Quik and Snoop Dogg. He produced the tracks "Believe" and "Flow" for the Twenty album of the R&B group Boyz II Men. He had also produced Korean girl group Girls' Generation's maxi single The Boys for the group's first international release. He has recently produced Korean/Chinese boy group EXO's prologue single "What Is Love".
