Robert Clivillés is a record producer

Record producer

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, songwriter

Songwriter

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, arranger

Arranger

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, music video director

Music video director

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 most noted for his work with C+C Music Factory

C+C Music Factory

C+C Music Factory is a dance-pop and hip hop group formed in 1989 by David Cole and Robert Clivillés which stopped recording 1996, following Cole's death...

, a group he founded with musical partner David Cole

David Cole (producer)

David Cole was a songwriter and record producer, and was one half of the dance-music duo C+C Music Factory, which he founded with musical partner Robert Clivillés....

. He is of Puerto Rican

Puerto Rico

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 ancestry.

Clivillés and Cole also produced various hits for other artists

Clivillés and Cole production discography

Robert Clivillés and David Cole were very successful record producers and remixers in the 1990's.Mariah Carey worked extensively with Clivillés + Cole, who hired the duo to produce songs for her albums and remix her singles...

 such as Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey

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, Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston

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, Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin

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, James Brown

James Brown

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, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam

Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam

Lisa Lisa and her band Cult Jam were an urban contemporary band and one of first freestyle music groups to emerge from New York City in the 1980s. Cult Jam consisted of guitarist/bassist Alex "Spanador" Moseley, and drummer/keyboardist Mike Hughes...

, Deborah Cooper

Deborah Cooper

Deborah Cooper is a female, part African American, professional dance music singer, award winning composer and entertainer, with several number one and top charting dance music and house music hits.-History:...

, and many others.

Musical career

In the late 1980's Robert Clivillés and David Cole

David Cole (producer)

David Cole was a songwriter and record producer, and was one half of the dance-music duo C+C Music Factory, which he founded with musical partner Robert Clivillés....

 where active in 2 Puerto Ricans, a Blackman, and a Dominican

2 Puerto Ricans, a Blackman, and a Dominican

2 Puerto Ricans, A Black Man And A Dominican was a short-lived house-music group featuring David Morales and Robert Clivillés , David Cole , and Chep Nuñez . In 1987, it scored a hit in dance clubs with its debut song, "Do it Properly," the only release on Grooveline Records...

 and The 28th Street Crew

The 28th Street Crew

The 28th Street Crew was a short-lived house-music group featuring David Cole and Robert Clivillés; who used the alias The Done Properly Posse! on the album and single....

. The duo were also responsible for the formation of pop group Seduction

Seduction

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, for whom they wrote and produced a string of Top-10 hits. They contributed to the career of former Weather Girls

Weather Girls

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 vocalist Martha Wash

Martha Wash

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 who at the same time was one the lead vocalist for the dance act Blackbox (band). And in 1990 Clivillés and Cole released a single, feathering later C+C Music Factory rapper Freedom Williams

Freedom Williams

Frederick Brandon Williams , better known by his stage name Freedom Williams is an American hip hop and dance music performer, who gained fame as the lead vocalist on C+C Music Factory's biggest hits.-Career:...

, called "Get Dumb! (Free Your Body)" as The Crew. But the duo's biggest success was the group C+C Music Factory

C+C Music Factory

C+C Music Factory is a dance-pop and hip hop group formed in 1989 by David Cole and Robert Clivillés which stopped recording 1996, following Cole's death...

 that scored worldwide in 1991.

After the death of his partner David Cole in 1995, Robert Clivillés continued to keep the C+C's legacy alive through his own production work. In 1995, he released a solo single under the name C+C Music Factory, called "I'll Always Be Around" (#1 Billboard Dance/Club Play), on MCA Records. This was the final #1 Dance/Club Play hit for C+C Music Factory. An album titled C+C Music Factory

C+C Music Factory (album)

C+C Music Factory is the third album by C+C Music Factory. The album was not released in the United States. This was the group's first album since the death of David Cole and the final studio album of new material to be released under the C+C Music Factory name.-Track listing:# "What Can I Do " -...

was released by MCA in 1995 in Europe, but it was not released in the US. This was the final studio album of new material to be released under the C+C Music Factory name. The same year, Columbia/SME Records released Ultimate, a greatest hits collection featuring a mixture of remixes and album versions of C+C Music Factory's Sony Music Entertainment singles. Two singles were released in conjunction with the album "I Found Love" (#13 Dance/Club Play) and "Robi Rob's Boriqua Anthem" (#29 Dance/Club Play), which featured Spanish-language reggae artist El General

El General

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.

In October 1996

1996 in music

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, Robert Clivillés released an album of new material under the name Robi-Rob's Clubworld. The first single from the project, "Shake That Body," featured emcee Ya Kid K

Ya Kid K

Ya Kid K. is a Congolese-Belgian hip hop artist. Her sister, Karoline 'Leki' Kamosi, is an R&B singer.-Biography:...

, formerly of Technotronic

Technotronic

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. The second single, "Reach," was a collaboration with Hex Hector

Hex Hector

Hex Hector , is an American dance remixer. He won a Grammy in 2001 for "Best Remixer".-Biography:Hector was born in in Manhattan, New York, of a Puerto Rican mother and Cuban father, and was raised in the Washington Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan...

 and featured vocals from longtime C+C vocalist Deborah Cooper

Deborah Cooper

Deborah Cooper is a female, part African American, professional dance music singer, award winning composer and entertainer, with several number one and top charting dance music and house music hits.-History:...

, which was the final recording to have piano tracks recorded by the late David Cole, his C+C partner.

In the 2000's Clivillés worked with the group MVP

MVP (band)

MVP is a hip hop act from New York. The line-up of the group featured an R&B singer from The Bronx, Vice Verse ; MC Stagga Lee ; and Robert Clivillés ....

.

In 2010 C+C Music Factory reformed with Eric Kupper

Eric Kupper

Eric Kupper is an American keyboardist, arranger, songwriter, remix artist, DJ and record producer of French descent. Playing in bands in his formative years, he got his real start in the mid-1980s working as a keyboardist, guitarist, and songwriter for such producer/remixers as David Morales,...

 stepping in to replace Cole.

External links

• Robert Clivillés on MySpace
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• Robert Clivilles Interview 2004