Writer & Producer  
“Showtime  “ (Shaggy featuring Babyface)
From the Robert Deniro Eddie Murphy 
Film Showtime Co-writer Guitars,Drums,Bass

 Mission To Please (Platinum)
THE ISLEY BROTHERS, 1996
Writer, Co-Producer, and Musician 
Floatin’ on Your Love  (Billboard Top Ten  ,  Single)
Whenever You’re Ready
Make Your Body Sing
I Feel For You (Grammy-Nominated for Arrangement
CHAKA KHAN, 1984, 1997
Co-Producer, Arranger and Musician
Chaka Khan, Destiny Album,1986
Co-Producer, Arranger and Musician
Earth To Mickey
It’s You
I Can’t Be Loved
Sugar Hill Records The Message, Co- producer, Musician
Covered by Ice-Cube- Check Yourself  Before  .you Wreck Yourself
 Also by Sean Puffy  Combs on his  #1 hit 
Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down
 
THE SUGARHILL GANG, MELLE MEL,  GRANDMASTER FLASH AND   THE FURIOUS FIVE, BEATSTREET
Writer, Producer, and Musician
White Lines {All instrumentation}
Apache
Beat Street (Co-writer)
New York, New York (Co-writer)
Tony Thompson (Top Twenty Hit Single)
I Wanna Love Like That, (Written by Babyface), Co-Producer 
Tanya Blount, Spend Another Night, Writer, Producer
Will Downing, Hold On, Co-Writer
 
Arranger & Musician    Waiting to Exhale (Multi-Platinum)
TONI BRAXTON, Let It Flow, Guitars
CHANTE MOORE, Wey-U, Guitar, Saxophone
SWV, All Night Long, Guitar
MARY J. BLIGE, Not Gon’ Cry, Guitar
SHANNA, How Could You Call Her Baby, Guitar
The Tony Rich Project (Platinum) Guitars on most of the album
including hit single Like a Woman
Roberta Flack, Set The Night to Music, Arranger, Keyboards
 World Famous Supreme Team Hey DJ  All Instruments & Arrangment
KC & JOJO Bulletproof Soundtrack Guitars
Jon B’s current single All Guitars

Live Performances    Babyface World Tour94-95 Guitar,Sax,Keyboards        
 Isley Bros .U.S.Tour 96-97  Keyboards,Guitar 
 Babyface “MTV Unplugged & Live ALBUM -97  Guitar, Sax
Keyboards,flute & Sitar   

 Isley Bros .U.S. & Japan Tour 1999
 
Babyface Japan Tour 2001

Television Appearances with artists including: Pink,Toni Braxton,The Isley Bros,Bette Midler,Babyface & Salt and Peppa
 
Additional Information A founding member and bandleader of MANCHILD, a 70’s recording group whose members included Kenny “Babyface” Edmunds and Darryl Simmons.
Griffin spent years as an in house arranger producer for Sugarhill Records as well as with Gamble & Huffs Philly International Records.Creator of the now classic rhythm track The Message by Grandmaster Flash(“Its like a jungle sometimes”) used by Icecube & Sean Puffy Combs in their recent hits. Griffin the Grammy nominated arranger has also Written arranged and or produced for Dionne Warwick, Joan Jett, The Ojays, Gwen Guthrie, Culture Club, The Bee Gees, Shirley Jones, Patti LaBelle, Phyllis Hyman and Charlie Wilson of the Gap Band.

 

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