Alvin Fields

Alvin Fields (born October 16, 1950) is an American musician.

His musical career began when he first appeared on stage at age seven to sing a Christmas carol and stunned the audience with his amazing voice. Fields was in foster care from the age of five. The first orphanage he was placed in was St. Dominic's in Blauvelt, New York. The nuns took notice of his amazing talent and at every given opportunity they would teach him songs and have him perform every holiday. At the age of 11, Fields was placed in St. Vincent's Home for Boys where he learned to play the guitar and the piano. He formed a group and taught each member how to play their instruments. At thirteen Fields' group played regularly at St. John's University. In 1968 he began to study dance as therapy for a broken ankle and became a lead dancer in The Children's Repertory Ballet Company where he appeared in the ballet "The Stolen Prince". Once a teacher saw him appear on an NBC television show called "Someone New" on NBC hosted by Leon Bibb, she insisted he take the lead in every high school musical.

Throughout his dance experience Fields' writing abilities evolved to the point where he brought some of his works to Jerry Love who was the head of A&R for A&M Records. Love encouraged him to pursue his music and introduced Fields to Michael Zager, who co-wrote and produced the dance classic "Let's All Chant". Fields first solo album was titled "Special Delivery" for A&M Records, which featured guest appearances by Herb Alpert and both Whitney and Cissy Houston. The record was produced Zager and Love and was published by Sumac music's Susan McKusker. Fields also co-wrote several songs with Cissy Houston for her album titled "Think It Over" for CBS Records. Fields' duets include "Don't Sneak On Me" with Luther Vandross and "Tearin' It Up" with Chaka Khan, produced by Arif Mardin.

Fields also acted the lead role in the Obie Award winning play, The Me Nobody Knows for Showtime On Broadway co-starring Tisha Campbell and narrated by James Earl Jones.

Fields vocal arrangement and gospel compositions for the renowned New York Boy's Choir re-united him with Whitney Houston who gave support to the choir enabling them to appear on stage with her at Radio City Music Hall in 1994 and several other performances.

Fields is also credited with Coolio and Stevie Wonder for his vocal arranging and conducting of the award winning "Gangsta's Paradise" performance on the 1995 Billboard Awards. To hear Alvin on his myspace page click here. [http://www.myspace.com/alvinfields]

Fields can be seen in the DVD titled The British Rock Symphony (2000) as a lead vocalist alongside Darlene Love, Roger Daltrey of The Who, Billy Preston, Alice Cooper, Paul Young, Peter Frampton and others. Fields has over 300 songs registered in the BMI songwriters catalogue.