American funk and R&B band
Brainstorm was an
hit single "
Lovin' Is Really My Game", which was featured in the film
54 starring
Mike Myers, and won the 1978
Billboard magazine Light Radio/Heavy Disco Record of the Year. The album also contained the radio hit "This Must Be Heaven" which is considered a soul classic, by virtue of its continued air play 34 years later. Other single releases from subsequent albums included 1978's "On Our Way Home", and "Hot for You", featuring
Belita Woods on lead vocals.
The members of the band (on the Stormin' album) were
Belita Woods, bandleader and saxophonist Charles Overton,
Lamont Johnson on fretless bass and vocals ("This Must Be Heaven"), Renell Gonsalves on drums, Treaty Womack on vocals, percussion, and flute, Bob Ross (a.k.a.
Professor RJ Ross) on keyboards, Gerald "Jerry" Kent on guitar,
Jeryl Bright on trombone, and "Leaping" Larry Sims on trumpet. Future
Wham!/
George Michael bassist,
Deon Estus, was also a member of the band for a time. A teenage
Regina Carter , who later became internationally known and respected as a jazz violinist, joined the band around 1978 and performed for a time with them. TheBrothersAli.com Jerome Ali and Jimmy Ali(guitar and bass), joined about the same time in 1978, these days performing in Las Vegas, Houston & Detroit.
Members of Brainstorm continued their musical careers with other bands or in production. Woods later went on to perform as part of the
Lamont Johnson released several solo albums and teaches bass. Renell Gonsalves performs with a wide variety of artists, as a skillful Latin-jazz percussionist (His father was renowned jazz saxophonist
Paul Gonsalves, late of the
Duke Ellington band).
Professor RJ Ross has written and co-produced a number of music projects with well-known artists in California including a 2008 CD
Face to Face.
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Singer Belita Karen Woods died on May 14, 2012, at age 63.[2]
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