Jerry Peters

Jerry Peters
Jerry Peters
Birth name	Jerry Peters
Born	Funk
Occupation(s)	Composer, Songwriter, Producer, Arranger, Pianist
Instrument(s)	Keyboards
Years active	1969–present
Labels	Mercury Records

Jerry Peters is an American songwriter,

Going In Circles" by The Friends of Distinction

.

Career

Peters was born in

California Institute of Arts

but left school just short of getting his degree to enter the music business.

During his college years, Peters met Anita Poree and her brother Greg Poree. They started writing songs together. This collaboration between Jerry and Anita Poree would become the

R&B pop classic "Going in Circles", which was performed by The Friends of Distinction. This became Peters' first gold record. Around this time Peters became an in-demand composer, songwriter, arranger, and producer.^{[citation needed}

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In 1972, Peters recorded his only album on Mercury Records, Blueprint for Discovery. Also in 1972 Peters began his association with The Sylvers family. Working on all three of their Pride/MGM albums, producing The Sylvers II. He produced both Foster Sylvers albums.

Peters began producing albums by jazz pianist

Grammy for co-writing the "Gospel Song of the Year" with Kirk Whalum

, "It's What I Do".

Peters is presently based in Los Angeles.[2] Peters is a member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.^{[citation needed]}