Paul Laurence

Stephanie Mills Detroit Opera House 2017 credit: Kdrayf01

Throwback: Stephanie Mills: (You’re Puttin’) A Rush On Me

On: March 30, 2025

Stephanie Mills’s “(You’re Puttin’) A Rush On Me” is on her 11th studio album, If I Were Your Woman. Paul Laurence added Mills to his list of singers he wrote hits for in the ’80s when he co-wrote it with Timmy Allen. Melba Moore, Lillo Thomas, Freddie Jackson, and Meli’saContinue Reading

Throwback: Paul Laurence-Strung Out

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By: blakcitrus

On: June 5, 2011

[youtube]n_x4tfNIz9c[/youtube] Paul Laurence is a native of New York City where he learned to play piano from Valerie Simpson at Harlem’s White Rock Baptist Church. Laurence became known in the ’80s for writing and producing hit songs for Freddie Jackson, Melba Moore, Lillo Thomas, Stephanie Mills and Evelyn King. Jackson’sContinue Reading