Respect Music Company BMI, Miracle Mile Music Co. BMI, and Family Affair Music Co. ASCAP, are steeped in music history. Owned by hit songwriter, Peggy Grayson, her music publishing catalogs span 50 plus years with songs recorded by timeless artists including, Prince, Bobby Bland, B.B. King, Rolling Stones, Little Johnny Taylor, Darlene Love, Big Joe Turner, Papa John Creach, Little Joe Blue, and many more. Our songs maintain a global presence at radio, music streaming services, dance clubs, with fresh cuts by new and classic artists released on major and independent record labels.

We are home to the best of the best legendary songwriters whose creative contributions have filled our diverse catalogs with hits and classics. Our staff has decades of expertise and experience across a broad range of creative songwriting services, A&R, and music publishing aspects. We offer progressive opportunities for brilliant, passionate, innovative songwriters and artists to champion career advancement.

Our songs will make you laugh, make you cry, give rise to inspiration, evoke thought, motivate the spirit of dance, and bring a sense of joy and happiness to the body, mind and the soul.

We continue to move forward working with sanguine creative ambitions and a consciousness of our industry. Not only are we in touch with new trends in music, we create them. The Miles Grayson Music Companies are where imagination meets zeal, where art channels to integrity. We have the magic song for your next project.
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Miles Grayson has a resume that covers over five decades of experience in the recording industry as a recording artist, musician, arranger, composer, record producer, and A&R. As founder of Grayson Productions, Andre Records, Miracle Mile Records, Respect Records, Miracle Mile Music Co. BMI, and co-founder of Family Affair Music Co. ASCAP, he continually grew his companies and presence by collaborating with some of the music industry’s most significant artists, songwriters, record labels, music publishers, music supervisors, and artist managers. Miles successes included creative contributions to Gold and Platinum selling albums, and as a creative contributor to over 1,000 major recording sessions covering a wide gamut of popular music from Urban, Contemporary, Pop, R&B, Blues, Soul, Jazz, Rock, Latin and Country.

His career as an artist began as a teenager in Los Angeles, California, singing and recording in 1950s Doo-Wop groups, The Continentals (Miles Grayson, Edward DeVold, Earl Williams, Everett Williams, and Bobby 'Lorenzo' Adams); The Poets (Miles Grayson, Elmo Jones Jr, Edward DeVold, Earl Williams and Ron Mosely); and The Echoes (Miles Grayson, Marzetta Freeman, Elmo Jones, Edward DeVold and Darlene Franklin - aka Darlene Love). The Poets released singles on Lew Chudd's, Imperial Records, and The Echoes on Impala Records and Art Rupe's, Specialty Records. After leaving The Echoes, Miles began playing piano in his own jazz groups, The Milestones and The Miles Grayson Trio, releasing singles on Hill Records. Miles is a legendary name among European soul collectors. His recordings, productions and arrangements have given him cult status on the Northern Soul scene in the UK.
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Miles discovered his gift of having an ear for arranging and hearing a hit song while sitting in on a 1957 Keen Records, Sam Cooke and Bumps Blackwell Orchestra session, where he offered a few of his own embellishments on the arrangement of a song. Irving Ashby, Cooke's guitarist and bandleader, thought Miles' suggestions for the arrangement were definite improvements. Pleased by the input, Ashby gave Miles ten dollars. After this positive encouragement, Miles seriously thought about making arranging and producing records a full-time profession. From that point forward, Miles became one of Los Angeles's most significant masters of arranging, producing, and soul grounded composition.

Miles has fulfilled the role as an accomplished, avant-garde arranger/conductor for many major recording artists throughout his enduring career. Some his early arrangements and rare recordings are, Tommy Youngblood "Now You're On Your Own/Why Did You Leave Me", Ray-Co Records - 1962; The Jillettes "Please Say You'll Love Me/Daddy Do", Carbs Records - 1962; Jeri Shaw "A Little Less Talk/I'm So Sorry", Mastersound Records - 1966; Hayes Cotton ‎"Black Wing's Have My Angel/I'll Be Waiting", Resist Records - 1966; The Groovers "Just Go For Me /I'm A Bashful Guy", Mint Records - 1966. and Mary Love "The Hurt Is Just Beginning /If You Change Your Mind", Josie Records - 1968.

One of his first significant call to arms as an independent arranger, was from Dennis Wilson and The Beach Boys with Capitol Records. In 1968, Miles wrote and arranged the horns for Canned Heat on their "Living The Blues" album on Liberty Records. 1968 also included Mary Love "The Hurt Is Just Beginning /If You Change Your Mind" for Josie Records. 1969 found him arranging master sessions for Billy Keene, Ted Taylor and Little Johnny Taylor with Ronn Records in Shreveport, Louisiana, and Ironing Board Sam for Atlantic Records. In the 1970s, Miles arranging talents were being tapped by many artists and label producers including, the internationally successful band, Jefferson Starship, and as a composer and arranger for Starship's violinist, Papa John Creach. Both artists recorded on Grunt Records, distributed by RCA. In 1972, Miles was once again recruited to write and arranged the horns for Canned Heat for their "Historical Figures And Ancient Heads" album on United Artists Records. Other significant Miles Grayson arranging credits include; The Righteous Brothers (Verve Records), Sonny & Cher (Atco Records), Joe Cocker (A&M Records), Bobby Womack (United Artists Records), Ashford & Simpson (Warner Bros Records), Tony Orlando & Dawn (Bell Records), Carla Thomas (Stax Records), Rufus Thomas (Stax Records), Sam Cooke (Keen Records), Jackie DeShannon (Imperial Records), Willie Clayton (Polydor Records), and The Edwin Hawkins Singers (Buddah Records).

As a producer, Miles is acknowledged for being an integral part of cultivating the voices and successful careers of; Little Johnny Taylor, Z.Z. Hill, Darlene Love, Lynn Varnado, Betty Swan, Brenda George, Ted Taylor, and other artists who are now and forever etched in the walls of timeless music legends.

Miles had a deep heart and soul for intuitive lyric and melody composition. Testament to that are the many major recording artists of whom to this day, continue to adapt their interpretations from his profound book of songs. Among those artists are; Big Joe Turner (United/Cadet Records), Mike Bloomfield (Pilz Entertainment), Bobby Bland (ABC/Dunhill), Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd St Rhythm Band (WarnerBros), Prince (Parachute Records), Mick Jagger & Gary Moore (Atlantic Records), B.B. King (MCA Records), Little Johnny Taylor (Ronn/Jewel Records), W.C. Clark (Alligator Records), Ted Taylor (Ronn Records), and The Rolling Stones (Interscope/UMG).

Miles was on top of his game in keeping up with the latest trends in mainstream music. Finding and nurturing new and upcoming artist and songwriting talent is always at the forefront for Grayson. As with any real A&R person, he genuinely cared about helping talented individuals to develop and reach their greatest potential. Miles offered creative talent the opportunity to contribute their art to painting the future of the recording industry.

Miles Grayson maintained a fun loving - youthful spirit, a positive outlook on the music industry, and a great "respect" for people and life in general. Among the many in the recording industry, Miles stands out as an esteemed executive, visionary producer, A&R legend, and GRAMMY^® Award-winning songwriter.

Stevie Hawkins brings experience and an impressive history in the music industry to Respect Music Co. BMI, Miracle Mile Music Co. BMI, and Family Affair Music Co. ASCAP. His business background encompasses music publishing, A&R, record label operations, music licensing, artist promotion, and artist tour management.

From 1995 to 1998, Stevie worked as publishing catalog manager, licensing administrator and royalty collections, for Atlanta, GA based Ginn Music Group LLC, and its umbrella of music publishing companies, Jalew Music-BMI, Act One Music-BMI, Moonsong Music-BMI and Grapevine Music-ASCAP. During this period of heading the publishing arm of the company, he worked with hit songwriters including; Jimmy Lewis, Ray Charles, Sam Dees, David Camon, William Bell, Joe Hinton, Dee Ervin, Keith Samuels (Ripple), Dorothy Norwood, Bill Brandon, Frederick Knight, Floyd Smith and Loleatta Holloway.

Hawkins secured and managed song placements for Ginn with artists, Ray Charles, Will "Fresh Prince" Smith, Bo Diddley, Bobby Bland, Big Daddy Kane, Sammy Kershaw, Special Ed, and X-Clan, and motion pictures, "Larger Than Life" starring Bill Murray - Matthew McConaughey - Jerry Adler, and "Made In America" starring Whoopie Goldberg - Ted Danson - Will Smith. Hawkins managed publishing relations between Ginn label clients, Universal/MCA, Tangerine, Malaco, Asylum, Def Jam, Capitol, Warner Brothers, Atlantic, EMI, BMG, Sony/Epic, Polydor, Razor & Tie, Collectables, Ace/Kent-UK, among others.

From 1999 to 2003, Hawkins was appointed Vice President of A&R, Chief Audio Engineer and Staff Producer for the Ginn Music Group label conglomerate; GRC Records, HotLanta Records and Aware Records. Hawkins was behind successful hip-hop, soul, funk, and blues productions, while securing key song placements for the company including, Mary J. Blige, Jermaine Dupri, Oak Ridge Boys, Lil Romeo, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Lil Kim, Wyclef Jean, Shaquille O'Neal, and John Michael Montgomery. Stevie currently continues to conduct periodic master catalog and publishing licensing administration for Ginn.

In 2004, Stevie founded and currently owns two independent record labels; Alternative/Urban Records and Emphasis Records, and is co-owner in two music publishing companies; Hannon Hawkins Music-BMI and Uncle Slim Music-ASCAP. Recent music placements from his publishing catalogs include a Landmark Productions/Roku television drama series, "The Book of Nimrod"; a song from Hawkins' "What The Funk?" album titled "Bam" with Atom Factory music supervisor Paul Stewart (Academy Award-winning "Hustle and Flow" Oscar for Best Original Song, "Men of Honor", "2 Fast 2 Furious"); and Winslow Productions major motion picture, "Lenny The Wonder Dog". Previous artist cuts from his music publishing catalogs include; Cher, Cyndi Lauper, Fleetwood Mac, Angie, Martina McBride, Roger Daltrey, Peter Cetera, Selena, and Keith Sweat. Hawkins has worked with hit songwriters and artists, Gary Loyd (Tim McGraw, Vern Gosdin), Andrew Gold (Thank You For Being A Friend, Lonely Boy), Paul Gurvitz (Graeme Edge Band, Baker Gurvitz Army with Ginger Baker), Kit Hain (The Temptations, Chaka Khan), and others. Hawkins has administered song catalog material major music publishing houses, Chrysalis Music, Crutchfield Music-Nashville, Cool Music-Sweden, Shmusic Music-UK (Elvis Costello, Bonnie Tyler, Kim Wilde, Ringo Starr, Randy Bachman), Sheb Wooley Music-Nashville, among others.

Hawkins has earned multiple accolades over his career to include, 2018 GRAMMY^® Participation Recipient in the Rolling Stones "Blue & Lonesome" Best Traditional Blues Album winner; platinum plaques for contributions to the 1975 multi-platinum album, "Dreamboat Annie" by Heart, and Rolling Stones multi-platinum "Blue & Lonesome"; 2012 Artists In Music Awards-Hollywood “Best Jazz Artist”; 2012 Los Angeles Music Awards “Record of the Year” for Hawkins' album titled “What The Funk?”; 2012 Los Angeles Music Awards “Mark Vigil Male Singer/Songwriter of the Year”; 2013 Los Angeles Music Awards “Urban Artist of the Year”; and 2016 Indie Music Channel Awards “Best Live R&B Performance", along with Miles Grayson and Grammy® nominated percussionist, Victor Orlando.

Stevie has produced and engineered recordings for Atlantic/Capricorn Records Southern-Rock/Blues artists, Eric Quincy Tate, Hydra, and Wayne "Bear" Sauls' album titled "Emotional", co-produced with Paul Hornsby (Marshall Tucker Band, Charlie Daniels Band). Also, Country Music and Bluegrass artists, Keith Burns (Trick Pony)-Warner Bros; Doug Stone-Sony/Epic; Con Hunley-Warner Bros; Daryle Singletary-Giant Records; Red White & Bluegrass-GRC Records; Blues artist Sammy "Crowned Prince of the Blues" Blue-Emphasis Records; Polydor Records-UK gold selling Pop artist Brenda Cochrane, and countless independent artist productions across a wide variety of genres.

An artist in his own right, Stevie is a touring/session drummer, vocalist, song and film music composer. Since 1973, he has toured and recorded sessions playing drums for major label artists; Chuck Berry, Albert King, Rufus Thomas, John Lee Hooker, James Cotton, Rita Graham, Chick Willis, Percy Sledge, Chubby Checker, Brook Benton, Dee Clark, Willie Hill, Harvey Scales, Gregg Allman, Leon Russell, Joe Cocker, Stanley Jordan, The Ink Spots, Eddie Tigner, Reddog, Sammy Blue, Bertie Higgins, The Drifters, The Coasters, Glen Campbell, Jim Ed Brown, Doug Stone, Razzy Bailey, Con Hunley, Daryle Singletary, Ed Bruce, Jeff Carson, Dan Seals (England Dan & John Ford Coley), Cledus T. Judd, Johnny Rodriguez, Webb Pierce, Charlie Rich, comedian Jackie Mason, among others. Stevie has performed countless shows at many historic venues including, Whisky A Go-Go, Avalon Theater Hollywood, The Orpheum Theater, Capitol Theater, Strand Theater, and Renfro Valley.

Stevie has worked with Miles Grayson since 1971 as a songwriting collaborator, and in music publishing interests. Miles and Stevie have performed together in concert on occasions at the Avalon Theater in Hollywood, CA, and have been the subjects of numerous radio interviews. Stevie is now positioned as an Administrative Executive and A&R Manager for the Respect Music Company.

Stevie continues his life-long pursuit of music business, musical and artistic excellence, demonstrating a tireless commitment to his craft. Further info can be found at his website. Click Here to navigate to steviehawkins.com