Bernard Belle is an American composer, producer and musician. After starting his career as an R&B guitarist, Belle became known as a songwriter for Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston and a producer of gospel music.

Career

Belle received his first break in the late 1980s. His sister Regina Belle

Regina Belle

Regina Belle is a singer-songwriter who first surfaced in the late 1980s. She is notable for her Grammy award winning duet with Peabo Bryson, "A Whole New World".-Biography:Regina Belle was born in Englewood, New Jersey...

, a Grammy Award winning background vocal singer with R&B group The Manhattans

The Manhattans

The Manhattans are an American popular R&B vocal group, with a string of hit records spanning four decades. Their best known million-selling songs being "Kiss and Say Goodbye" and 'Shining Star' in 1980...

, recommended him to play guitar for the group.

Bernard Belle is notable for his partnership with producer Teddy Riley and his collaborations with Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...

. He is credited with writing and co-writing Remember the Time

Remember the Time

"Remember the Time" is a single by American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson recorded in the Hit Factory Miami. The song was released by Epic Records on January 14, 1992, as the second single from Jackson's eighth studio album, Dangerous. Written and composed by Teddy Riley, Michael Jackson and...

, Privacy and Why You Wanna Trip On Me.

He began working with Teddy Riley in 1986. Together, they became the pioneers of the New Jack Swing

New jack swing

New jack swing or swingbeat is a fusion genre spearheaded by Teddy Riley and Bernard Belle which became extremely popular from the late-1980s into the mid-1990s. Its influence, along with hip-hop, seeped into pop culture and was the definitive sound of the inventive Black New York club scene...

 era of music, paving the way for new and existing artists. He has written and produced for artists such as Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston

Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an American singer, actress, producer and a former model. Houston is the most awarded female act of all time, according to Guinness World Records, and her list of awards include 1 Emmy Award, 6 Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards, among...

, Bobby Brown

Bobby Brown

Robert Barisford "Bobby" Brown is an American R&B singer-songwriter, occasional rapper, and dancer. After success in pop group New Edition, Brown began his solo career in 1987 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits, culminating in a Grammy Award. He was a pioneer of New Jack Swing music, a...

, Patti LaBelle

Patti LaBelle

Patricia Louise Holte-Edwards , better known under the stage name, Patti LaBelle, is a Grammy Award winning American singer, author and actress who has spent over 50 years in the music industry...

, Aaron Hall, Keith Sweat

Keith Sweat

Keith Sweat is an American R&B/soul, singer-songwriter, record producer, radio personality and a major contributor to the new jack swing era.-Music career:...

, Al B. Sure!

Al B. Sure!

Albert Jason Brown III is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He grew up in Leonia, New Jersey and Mount Vernon, New York. During the late 1980s under the stage name Al B...

 and Today.

After dedicating his life to Christ in 1994, Belle remains one of the most sought after producer/musicians in the Gospel music

Gospel music

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....

 industry while continuing to be an icon in the R&B sector. He plays for such artists as Donnie McClurkin

Donnie McClurkin

Donald Andrew McClurkin, Jr. is an American gospel music singer and minister. He has won three Grammy awards, ten Stellar awards, two BET awards, two Soul Train awards, one Dove award and one NAACP Image award for his work....

, Shirley Caesar

Shirley Caesar

Shirley Ann Caesar is an American Gospel music singer, songwriter and recording artist whose career has spanned six decades...

, Richard Smallwood

Richard Smallwood

Richard Smallwood is an American Gospel music artist who formed The Richard Smallwood Singers in 1977 in Washington, DC.-Biography:...

, Marvin Sapp

Marvin Sapp

Pastor Marvin Louis Sapp is an American Gospel music singer-songwriter who recorded with the group Commissioned during the 1990s before beginning a record-breaking solo career...

, Fred Hammond

Fred Hammond

Fred Hammond is a gospel music singer, bass guitar player, and record producer.-Musical career:Hammond has been active both as a member of the gospel performing group Commissioned, and as a solo artist...

, Yolanda Adams

Yolanda Adams

Yolanda Adams is an American Grammy- and Dove-award-winning Yolanda Adams is an American [[Grammy Awards|Grammy]]- and [[Dove Awards|Dove]]-award-winning...

, Tye Tribbett, Mary Mary

Mary Mary

Mary Mary is an American gospel music duo, consisting of sisters Erica Atkins-Campbell and Tina Atkins-Campbell . The duo are often credited along with Kirk Franklin for broadening the fan base of urban contemporary gospel in the 2000s by introducing elements of soul music, hip hop, funk and jazz...

, Kirk Franklin

Kirk Franklin

Kirk Dwayne Franklin is an American Gospel music musician, choir director, and author, and is most notably known for leading urban contemporary gospel choirs such as The Family, God's Property and One Nation Crew .- Early years :...

, Donald Lawrence

Donald Lawrence

Donald Lawrence is an American gospel music songwriter, record producer and artist.-Early years:Donald Lawrence was born on May 4, 1961. He studied at Cincinnati Conservatory, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in music. While in Cincinnati, he was also the Minister of Music at the...

, Smokie Norful

Smokie Norful

Rev. W.R. "Smokie" Norful, Jr. is an American gospel singer and pianist, best known for his 2002 album, I Need You Now and his 2004 release, Nothing Without You, which won a Grammy at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album in 2004.-Early life:Norful, a minister who...

, Hezekiah Walker

Hezekiah Walker

Bishop Hezekiah Xzavier Walker, Jr. is a Grammy Award-winning gospel music artist, founder and leader of the Love Fellowship Choir , and Pastor and Bishop of the Love Fellowship Tabernacle, with locations in Brooklyn, New York, and Bensalem, Pennsylvania, in the United States...

 and BeBe & CeCe Winans

BeBe & CeCe Winans

BeBe & CeCe Winans are an American Gospel music brother and sister duo. BeBe and CeCe Winans are the seventh and eighth of "Mom" and "Pop" Winans' ten children, most of whom have had successful Gospel music careers.-Musical career:...

.

He is a recurring musician on the BET

Black Entertainment Television

Black Entertainment Television is an American, Viacom-owned cable network based in Washington, D.C.. Currently viewed in more than 90 million homes worldwide, it is the most prominent television network targeting young Black-American audiences. The network was launched on January 25, 1980, by its...

 gospel shows Sunday Best

Sunday Best (show)

Sunday Best is a reality television Gospel singing competition series which airs on BET.Each season the show and its judges set out to find the best undiscovered gospel talent in America. Finalist compete each week until a winner is crowned...

 and The Celebration of Gospel.

Belle’s name appears on over 70 million records worldwide as a producer, writer, or musician. He has received four Grammy Award

Grammy Award

A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

s, an American Music Award, two Soul Train Music Awards

Soul Train Music Awards

The Soul Train Music Awards is an annual award show which previously aired in national television syndication, and honors the best in Black music and entertainment...

, over a dozen ASCAP Awards and nominations for Stella and GMA Dove Awards.

Discography

Year	Song Title	Album/CD	Artist(s)	Credited as
1989	You Found Another Guy	High Hat High Hat High Hat is an album compiling tracks from Boy George's second and third UK and European solo albums, Tense Nervous Headache and Boyfriend.-Overview:...	Boy George Boy George Boy George is a British singer-songwriter who was part of the English New Romantic movement which emerged in the early 1980s. He helped give androgyny an international stage with the success of Culture Club during the 1980s. His music is often classified as blue-eyed soul, which is influenced by...	Composer
		Stay with Me Stay with Me (Regina Belle album) Stay with Me is the second album by singer-songwriter, Regina Belle. It was released in 1989, two years after her debut. The album peaked at #63 on the Billboard 200 and #1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart...	Regina Belle Regina Belle Regina Belle is a singer-songwriter who first surfaced in the late 1980s. She is notable for her Grammy award winning duet with Peabo Bryson, "A Whole New World".-Biography:Regina Belle was born in Englewood, New Jersey...	Producer
	Your Love is not True, Sexy Lady	Today	Today	Producer
1990	Let's Chill, Long Gone	The Future The Future (Guy album) -Album:-Singles:"—" denotes releases that did not chart.-Personnel:Information taken from Allmusic.*art direction – Jeanne Bradshaw*artwork – Stuart Watson...	Guy Guy (band) Guy are a hip hop, R&B and soul band most closely associated with the new jack swing style of the 1980s and 1990s.-Origins :Guy was formed in Harlem, New York in 1987 by R&B singer-songwriters Aaron Hall, young musician/record producer Teddy Riley and Timmy Gatling...	Backing vocalist, producer, composer
	I Just Can't Handle It, I Like the Way (The Kissing Game) I Like the Way (The Kissing Game) "I Like the Way " is the title of a number-one pop and R&B single by Hi-Five from the group's debut self-titled album, Hi-Five. The hit song spent two weeks at number-one on the US R&B chart and one week at number-one on the US Billboard Hot 100.-Charts:-Track listings:CD single# Radio Edit #...	Hi-Five	Hi-Five Hi-Five Hi-Five is an American R&B quintet based out of Waco, Texas, who had a #1 hit on Billboard's Hot 100 in the early 1990s with "I Like the Way ". Hi-Five was formed in 1990, and consisted of the late Tony Thompson, Roderick "Pooh" Clark, Marcus Sanders, Russell Neal, and Toriano Easley...	Composer, backing vocalist
	It's Time, A Friend	Return	The Winans The Winans The Winans are an American Gospel music quartet from Detroit, Michigan consisting of brothers Marvin, Carvin, Michael and Ronald Winans.-Members:Please refer to the Winans family page for more detail on the individual members.-Origins:...	Producer, composer
1991	Let Me Know, Tennis Anyone, No Need to Worry, My Happiness	New Formula	Today	Backing vocalist, producer
		Voyce Boxing	Voyce Boxing	Remixing
	Remember the Time Remember the Time "Remember the Time" is a single by American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson recorded in the Hit Factory Miami. The song was released by Epic Records on January 14, 1992, as the second single from Jackson's eighth studio album, Dangerous. Written and composed by Teddy Riley, Michael Jackson and... , Why You Wanna Trip On Me	Dangerous	Michael Jackson Michael Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...	Composer
1992	Get Away, Two Can Play That Game, One More Night, Something in Common Something in Common "Something in Common" is a song by singers Bobby Brown and then-wife Whitney Houston that was featured on Brown's 1992 album Bobby. Despite the album's release in mid-1992, this was recorded in September 1991 in Atlanta, Georgia, immediately after Bobby and Whitney became engaged...	Bobby Bobby (album) Bobby is the third studio album by American singer Bobby Brown, released in 1992 on MCA Records. It spawed five singles, including "Humpin' Around", "Get Away", and "Good Enough" . It was certified 5x Platinum. Remixed House versions of several singles, produced by English dance outfit K-Klass,...	Bobby Brown Bobby Brown Robert Barisford "Bobby" Brown is an American R&B singer-songwriter, occasional rapper, and dancer. After success in pop group New Edition, Brown began his solo career in 1987 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits, culminating in a Grammy Award. He was a pioneer of New Jack Swing music, a...	Composer, backing vocalist
1994	In You	Here I Am	Glenn Jones Glenn Jones Glenn Jones, , is an American R&B/soul singer.-Career:He started his career as a gospel singer and has since, managed a successful move into the R&B field. He got his start in R&B in 1980 when Norman Connors featured Jones on a track on his album, Take It To The Limit...	Composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer
1995	Remember The Time Remember the Time "Remember the Time" is a single by American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson recorded in the Hit Factory Miami. The song was released by Epic Records on January 14, 1992, as the second single from Jackson's eighth studio album, Dangerous. Written and composed by Teddy Riley, Michael Jackson and...	HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I	Michael Jackson Michael Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...	Composer
1997		Baby Come To Me Baby Come to Me (song) "Baby Come to Me" is an 1989 single by Regina Belle. The single was Regina Belle's first number one on the Hot Soul Singles chart, as well as the singer third entry onto the Hot 100, where "Baby Come to Me" peaked at number sixty..-References:... : The Best of Regina Belle	Regina Belle Regina Belle Regina Belle is a singer-songwriter who first surfaced in the late 1980s. She is notable for her Grammy award winning duet with Peabo Bryson, "A Whole New World".-Biography:Regina Belle was born in Englewood, New Jersey...	Arranger
	If By Chance	Flame	Patti LaBelle Patti LaBelle Patricia Louise Holte-Edwards , better known under the stage name, Patti LaBelle, is a Grammy Award winning American singer, author and actress who has spent over 50 years in the music industry...	Composer
1998	I Gotch U	Believe in Me Believe in Me (Regina Belle album) Believe in Me is the fifth studio album by singer-songwriter, Regina Belle. The album failed to entry Billboard 200 and peaked #42 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.It includes the hit singles, "I've Had Enough" and "Don't Let Go"....	Regina Belle Regina Belle Regina Belle is a singer-songwriter who first surfaced in the late 1980s. She is notable for her Grammy award winning duet with Peabo Bryson, "A Whole New World".-Biography:Regina Belle was born in Englewood, New Jersey...	Keyboards, programming, producer, mixing, composer
1999	Nobody Like You	I Claim the Victory	Doc Powell Doc Powell Doc Powell is an American jazz guitarist and composer. He was born and raised in Spring Valley, New York. He attended college at University of Charleston....	Composer
2001	Johnny's Back	This Is Regina! This Is Regina! This Is Regina! is the sixth studio album by singer-songwriter Regina Belle, and was released October 21, 2001 on Peak Records. The album peaked at #61 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and #26 on the Top Independent Albums chart....	Regina Belle Regina Belle Regina Belle is a singer-songwriter who first surfaced in the late 1980s. She is notable for her Grammy award winning duet with Peabo Bryson, "A Whole New World".-Biography:Regina Belle was born in Englewood, New Jersey...	Producer, instrumentation, composer
	Privacy	Invincible	Michael Jackson	Composer
2005	The Chosen One	Ghetto Classics Ghetto Classics Ghetto Classics is Jaheim's third album with Warner Bros. Records. The album is the follow-up to his two well established platinum records. The album was released in February 2006, and debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, selling 153,000 copies in its first week of release. Shortly after it quickly...	Jaheim Jaheim Jaheim Hoagland is an American R&B singer and formerly a rapper performing under the mononymous name of Jaheim. He was signed by Naughty by Nature's Kaygee to Divine Mill Records in 2000, and released his debut album Ghetto Love in 2001. His second effort, Still Ghetto, was released a year later,...	Arranger, producer
2005	Remember The Time	The Essential Michael Jackson The Essential Michael Jackson -U.S. version:-Limited Edition 3.0 bonus disc:-Charts:-Year-end charts:-Certifications:-See also:* List of number-one albums of 2009 * List of number-one albums of 2009 * List of number-one albums from the 2000s...	Michael Jackson	Composer
2006		We Praise You	The McClurkin Project	Bass programming, guitar overdubs
	Remember the Time Remember the Time "Remember the Time" is a single by American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson recorded in the Hit Factory Miami. The song was released by Epic Records on January 14, 1992, as the second single from Jackson's eighth studio album, Dangerous. Written and composed by Teddy Riley, Michael Jackson and...	Visionary: The Video Singles Visionary: The Video Singles -Remix EP:Released February 21, 2006, Visionary Remixes - EP is only available in the UK iTunes store.-CD Promo:# Thriller - 4:09# Don't Stop Till You Get Enough - 3:59...	Michael Jackson Michael Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...	Composer
2008	Launch Out	Launch Out Project	Rev. Stefanie R. Minatee	Bass, engineer, musician
	God Is Good, Good To Be Loved	Love Forever Shines Love Forever Shines Love Forever Shines is the eighth studio album by singer-songwriter, Regina Belle, and was released May 13, 2008 on Pendulum Records. The album peaked at #3 on the Billboard U.S...	Regina Belle Regina Belle Regina Belle is a singer-songwriter who first surfaced in the late 1980s. She is notable for her Grammy award winning duet with Peabo Bryson, "A Whole New World".-Biography:Regina Belle was born in Englewood, New Jersey...	Arranger, programming, producer, musician, composer

External links

• Sunday Best
• The Celebration of Gospel