After 7
To play music you must have a media player installed.  icon to the left of the track. One Night Nights Like This Can't Stop Ready Or NotAfter 7 had two back-to-back number one R&B/Top Ten pop gold singles with "Ready or Not" and "Can't Stop" (both written and produced by L.A. and Babyface) as well as several R&B/pop hits during the '90s. Lead singer and founder Kevon Edmonds grew up listening to "the good stuff": Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, the Temptations, and other classic soul singers. Too shy to sing in the church choir, Edmonds sang to himself "for my own satisfaction" until his teenage years when he joined his buddies in the junior high and high school choirs. While attending Indiana University, Edmonds' musical ambitions began to blossom. The I.U. Soul Revue, an extensive course on music theory, performing, and the music business, made him seriously consider music as a career. Edmonds started the group After 7 with brother Melvin Edmonds and I.U. classmate Keith Mitchell and would do occasional R&B shows in local clubs. After graduation, the trio worked nine to five jobs. Meanwhile, L.A. and Babyface had signed a production deal with Virgin Records and were scouting around for acts to produce. After they chose to work with their relatives, there was a period where the singing trio wasn't sure of the producers' intent, as they waited for L.A. and Babyface to finish other projects. But once things started rolling, they really started rolling.
The first single from After 7's debut self-titled album was "Heat of the Moment," which hit number five R&B in summer 1989. "Ready or Not" parked at number one R&B for two weeks, number seven pop in early 1990. "Can't Stop" with Edmonds on lead went to number one R&B, number six pop in summer 1990; the remixed extended version of the song proved to especially popular. The album After 7 went platinum, selling 1.5 million units and peaking at number 25 pop in summer 1990. The group performed their single "Night Like This" in the 1991 Twentieth Century Fox movie The Five Heartbeats, starring and directed by Robert Townsend. After 7 released two certified gold albums: “Takin My Time” in September 1992. It included the singles "Kickin' It" ,a medley of the Originals' 1969 hit "Baby I'm for Real" (written by Anna and Marvin Gaye), and Bloodstone's 1973 hit "Natural High"; The album "Reflections", included the singles "Gonna Love You Right" , "Not Enough Hours in the Night" on the soundtrack for Fox-TV's Beverly Hills 90210: The College Years, "'Til You Do Me Right" and a Jon B song, "Damn Thing Called Love." 
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