Steven J. C. Stanley (born July 11, 1958), is a Jamaican audio engineer, record producer and keyboardist who has worked in the reggae, dub and rock music genres since 1975, most notably with Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and Black Uhuru.
Stanley began as an in-house apprentice sound engineer at Aquarius Recording Studio in Halfway Tree, Kingston, Jamaica, September 1975. An integral part of the Compass Point All Stars, he was considered a member of the 1980s new wave group Tom Tom Club,[ Tom Tom Club biography at AllMusic.com] co-producing its eponymous debut album in 1981.Review of Tom Tom Club, David Fricke, Rolling Stone, Feb 18, 1982 He is credited as co-writer of "Genius of Love", one of the most sampled songs in hip hop music,[ Review of "Genius of Love" at AllMusic.com] having been re-interpreted by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five in the 1982 song "It's Nasty (Genius of Love)", and sampled by Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde, the X-Ecutioners, and on Mariah Carey's No. 1 hit "Fantasy" (1995)[ "Fantasy" composer credits listing at AllMusic.com] which earned Stanley a 1997 ASCAP Pop Award as a songwriter.
Stanley worked on the Grammy Award-winning studio albums Anthem (1984) by Black Uhuru, which he co-produced with Sly and Robbie, and Dutty Rock (2002) by Sean Paul, mixing the song "I’m Still in Love with You". Outside of the reggae genre, Stanley has also worked with Grace Jones, the Blockheads's Chaz Jankel, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, and the B-52's, receiving a Gold Album for Wild Planet (1981). He lives in Kingston, Jamaica, and works at his studio there, Steven Stanley Recording Studio."Bankie Banks riding on a Chariot of Steel", The Jamaica Observer, Oct 3, 2003"First Born" The Jamaica Observer, Aug 28, 2005
Discography Never Ending by Beres Hammond (2018), VP Records - Mixing Engineer
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