But in that time, he has been involved in creating countless hit songs for other artists, as well as contributing the song Even If My Heart Would Break for the multi-million selling soundtrack to the film The Bodyguard.

“I missed my own art,” he told the Jewish Telegraph as he released his new album Blood Sweat & Years.

“For the last 25 years, I’ve been a producer and songwriter for many artists, and I also developed artists like Andra Day. I found artists who had great voices, and then I produced them, wrote their albums and did everything for them to bring them up to the forefront of the music industry.

“And I got really bored with it, to be quite honest, because people never give you back what you give them, especially in the music industry, and I just felt that I was being taken for granted.”

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