Michael Jeffries

Michael Jeffries was born in Memphis on August 16th 1954. The family moved to Oakland, California in 1962. Michael began his love for music at a young age teaming up with elementary school classmates to form a group that later would become "The Two Things In One" The group had local success with two singles featuring Michael as lead vocalist "Silly Song" 1971 And " Together Forever " 1973. During the early 70's as front man for the group Michael opened for Earth Wind & Fire, War, Bill Crosby, Funkadelic and a host of other acts. In 1977 Michael was recruited by The Bay areas own Tower Of Power as their lead singer and recorded 4 albums with the band '' We Came To Play CBS 1978, " Back On The Street " 1979, Sheffield Labs Direct to disk live 1981 and Dinosaur Tracks in 2000. In 1986 Michael co wrote the billboard top 10 single " Never Say Never " for songstress Denise Williams and appeared on the movie Wildcat's soundtrack singing the song " Razzle Dazzle". In 1987 Michael appeared along with Karyn White as a featured vocalist on Jeff Lorbers " Private Passion CD. Michael released his first solo CD in 1989 on Warner Bros with tracks produced by Jellybean Johnson, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.