The Deele (pronounced The Deal) began their musical careers as a 1980s R&B band from Cincinnati,
Ohio, U.S. consisting of Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, Antonio "L.A." Reid, Carlos "Satin" Greene,
Darnell "Dee" Bristol, Stanley Burke, and Kevin Roberson.
Forming in 1981, The Deele recorded three albums during the 1980s, and scored two hit singles. In
1984 "Body Talk" reached #77 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. In 1987 their song "Two Occasions"
reached #4 on the R&B charts and was the biggest hit for the group, which created new opportunities to
write and co-produce for others such as Babyface, Tevin Campbell, Bobby Brown, and The Whispers
(Rock Steady) to name a few.
The group reunited in 1993, without Reid and Edmonds, to record their final album, Invitation to Love.
The Deele in 2007 is back and currently touring to promote their new single “The Only One” under
Eieg/D-Town Records (Dallas Texas) with a full album scheduled to release in 2008. The Deele was
added to Eieg/D-Town Koast2Koast Records in 2006 and is expected to write and produce for
DTR/K2K new young artist putting the S back into “muzic”.
The Grammy Award Winning Group “The Deele” is now back in the top 10 spotlight featured in Mariah
Carey‘s 2005 Grammy nominated hit “We Belong Together”. This would be the beginning of an entity
that would give birth to the most influential group of musicians and singers in the music industry today,
changing the course of R&B forever.
With Antonio "L.A." Reid and Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds branching off into their on solo careers,  
Kayo, Carlos, and Dee collectively produced, wrote, arranged, and performed on pop, adult
contemporary, and R&B projects with over 50 million copies sold. Their expertise has included artists as
diverse as Mariah Carey, Paula Abdul, Bar-Kays, Bootsy Collins, Johnny Gill, Babyface, TLC, Bobby
Brown, Toni Braxton, The Whispers, Whitney Houston and many more.
Now apart of D-Town Koast2Koast Records/Sony BMG a Dallas based record label, The Deele is
finding a new emergence in the music industry bringing the same musical influence, energy and
professionalism, three decades later to quench the thirst of the masses.


Discography
Studio albums
•        Street Beat (Solar Records, 1984)
•        Material Thangz (Solar Records, 1985)
•        Eyes of a Stranger (Solar Records, 1987) tracks include "Two Occasions"
•        Invitation to Love (Solar Records, 1993)
•        “TheOnly 1” Adult Contemporary (Eieg/ D-Town Records, 2007)
•        “TheOnly 1 Urban Mix” (Eieg/ D-Town Records, 2007)
New Release
The Only 1 2007
The Only 1 Remix 2007
Radio Interview 2007