REGGIE CALLOWAY | Director, Music Royalty Funding, Sound Royalties

This month we have a very special spotlight, CCC board member and co-chair of the Scholarship Committee, Reggie Calloway. Reggie recently received an Emmy for Outstanding Arrangement/Composition as a participant of the “Legends Unite for St. Jude” documentary! You can read more about the project here,

Best known as the founder and leader of the techno-funk group, Midnight Star, Reggie led the band to international success writing, producing, and arranging the group’s string of #1 hits in the early 80s. Hit songs like “Operator,” “No Parking On The Dance Floor,” and “Freak-a-zoid” prompted performances and success around the world. While signed to Solar Records, the group introduced a genre-defining fusion of synth-funk and R&B music with its chart-topping singles and double platinum album release, No Parking On The Dance Floor. Read more about Reggie here.

Reggie and his younger brother, Vincent Calloway, went on to perform as R&B duo, Calloway, following their time together in Midnight Star. In 1990, the duo reached #2 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart with hit song, “I Wanna Be Rich,” followed by popular singles, “Sir Lancelot,” “You’re My Everything,” “All The Way,” and “Let’s Get Smooth.” As lifelong collaborators, the duo’s latest single, “Politics,” a message to encourage listeners to exercise their power to vote, was met with a highly anticipated release in October 2020.

Midnight Star was inducted into the Cincinnati Black Music Walk of Fame in 2022.