Patrick Peter Owen Adams (born, March 17, 1950 in Harlem, New York City

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) is an American musician and record producer. He has earned 32 gold and platinum records. He is known primarily for his production, songwriting and engineering work on the New York-based Salsoul Records

Salsoul Records

This article is about the record label. For SalSoul the Puerto Rican Salsa radio station see Cadena Salsoul.Salsoul Records was a New York City based record label founded by brothers Joseph Cayre, Kenneth Cayre, and Stanley Cayre . Salsoul released about 300 disco 12-inch singles, and a string of...

, Prelude Records

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 and major record labels as well as his associations with various recording artists such as R. Kelly

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, Keith Sweat

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, Teddy Riley

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, Salt-N-Pepa

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, Jocelyn Brown

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, Loleatta Holloway

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, Leroy Burgess

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 and bands (The Universal Robot Band

The Universal Robot Band

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, Logg and Musique

Musique (Patrick Adams)

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). He owns and operates Patrick Adams Productions in New York City.

Career

During his prolific and influential career, dance/club music icon, Patrick Adams has recorded over 300 of his songs and has been involved in over 1000 recordings; including Sister Sledge

Sister Sledge

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, Loleatta Holloway

Loleatta Holloway

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, Main Ingredient, Shannon

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, Sine, Spinners, Gladys Knight

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, Skipworth & Turner, Candi Staton

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, Eddie Kendricks

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, Herbie Mann

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, Debbie Taylor

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, Bumblebee Unlimited, Universal Robot Band, Narada Michael Walden, Ace Spectrum, Rick James

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, Chatelaine

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, Cloud One and Bruni Pagan. In addition, Adams has worked with pop, hip-hop/r&b and dance/club acts such as Coolio

Coolio

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, Cathy Dennis

Cathy Dennis

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, Keith Sweat

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, Teddy Riley, Black Ivory

Black Ivory

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, R. Kelly

R. Kelly

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, Eric B & Rakim, Salt-N-Pepa

Salt-N-Pepa

Salt-N-Pepa is an American hip hop trio from Queens and Brooklyn, New York, that was formed in 1985. The group, consisting of Cheryl "Salt" Renee James, Sandra "Pepa" Denton, and Deidra "DJ Spinderella" Roper, was one of the first all-female rap crews....

 and Shades of Love, Jeanie Tracy.

Awards

In 1997, Patrick received the ASCAP Songwriter of the Year Award for the third time including back-to-back occasions. In 1996 he won it for "Keep on Jumpin'". In 1995 he was honored by Billboard for the # 1 dance song "Keep in Touch (Body to Body)" by the Shades of Love. Cathy Dennis

Cathy Dennis

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' remake of the classic Patrick Adams/Greg Carmichael penned and produced "Touch Me (All Night Long)" became a #1 pop hit single in 1991. For this cover of another Fonda Rae-performed release, Patrick and Greg received the 1992 ASCAP Songwriter of the Year Award. Among his hit collaborators, Adams co-wrote the 1979 hit single, "When You Wake Up Tomorrow" with 2001 ASCAP Top Dance Song Of The Year songwriter ("All For You"), Wayne K. Garfield, for dance diva, Candi Staton.