Rhythm, Love & Family.
Andy Gibb was a shadow dancer, Gerry DeVeaux is a shadow writer. For much of the past five years, DeVeaux has passed the time composing songs for an array of artists including Chaka Khan, Vanessa Paradis, Kylie Minogue, and Lenny Kravitz. As far as claims-to-fame go, being the cousin of Big Len is probably not too far off the A list if you’re attempting to bust into the music biz frontline. “Overwhelmed with the desire” to step out of the shadows, DeVeaux recently took the plunge and, released his first album, Rhythm and Love. He says he takes a uniform approach to songwriting, regardless of whether he’s keeping a song for himself or selling it for big money. “When I write, I always try to write something that’s going to be as timeless as possible. Obviously, you don’t know if something is going to be a hit or not, but even if I’m writing a poppy dance song for a dance diva who’s only going to last one season, I still try to give the song some sort of timeless quality. That’s what I aspire to.”
JOHN RUSSELL
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Rip It Up, Issue 219, 1 November 1995, Page 12
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191Rhythm, Love & Family. Rip It Up, Issue 219, 1 November 1995, Page 12
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