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Sunship is the brainchild of producer Ceri Evans. The Sunship crew has grown over the last sixteen years, and now features essential crew members DJ Chunky bringing on board the DJ skills, along with James 'The Doctor' Dowbekin with his engineering skills and all round Mac Omnipotence! Sunship first appeared in 1991 with the breakbeat track 'Sunship' on the Acid Jazz label.Since then, there have been many twists and turns on the path over years. At the start, there were remixes and productions for artists such as Naughty by Nature(Hip Hop Hooray), and Jungle Brothers(40 below)and James Taylor(Hope and Pray)....

Don't let the extraterrestrial name fool you -- Leo's Sunshipp played funky soul music and would have been around much longer if tragedy hadn't struck. The band revolved around singers Kenny Stover, Johnny Simone, and Alvin Few; all were born under the astrological sign of Leo, thus the name. Stover is the brother of Elgie Stover, who contributed to some Marvin Gaye songs and "The Bells" by the Originals; the Stovers are cousins of Harvey Fuqua (Moonglows and later Motown's A&R director). Kenny is from Cleveland, OH, and grew up in the Hough area on 66th and Belvedere. He moved...