Singer/songwriter/keyboardist/producer Kashif (born:Michael Jones) wrote and played on Evelyn King's number one R&B hits, I'm in love, Love come down, and Whitney Houston's first hit, You give good love,and one of its followups, Thinking about you from her 17-million selling debut-album. His own recording career yielded 17 R&B hit singles and four Top 40 albums; some of which can be found on his Definitive Collection.He recorded several duets: Love changes, with Mel'isa Morgan, Love the one I'm with, with Melba Moore and Reservations for two, with Dionne Warwick. Part of the vanguard that includes early pioneers Stevie Wonder & Ronnie McNeir and his 80s contemporaries The System. Kashif helped to revolutionized R&B music through the infusion of the-then emerging affordable, MIDI and synth technology of the 80s.

Kashif I just gotta have you (lover turn me on) 1983 Arista Kashif 2 Kashif Stone love 1983 Arista Kashif 3 Kashif Kashif 1983 Arista Kashif & M Brown 8 Kashif Baby don't break your baby's heart 1984 Arista Kashif 3 Kashif Send me your love 1984 Arista Kashif 9 Kashif Condition of the heart & Help yourself to my love (live) 1985 Arista Kashif & P L Jones 3 Kashif Condition of the heart 1985 Arista Kashif 8 Kashif Love changes 1987 Arista Kashif & L Silas jr. 5 Kashif Love changes 1987 Arista Kashif 10 Kashif Kashif 1989 Arista Kashif & N Mundy 9 Kashif The best of 1992 Arista Kashif 14 Kashif Who loves you 1998 Expansion Kashif 10