Sylvester Burks

Sylvester Burks started playing the piano at the tender age of 10 years old. He began teaching himself and by the time he was 12 years old he was playing for a church. By the time he was 18 he was asked to travel with the late Rev. James Cleveland but declined at his mother's request and decided to further his education, studying to be a court stenographer, he began preparing to work for the court system. At which time, Grammy award singer Tramaine Hawkins contacted him to go o n a major tour in which he accepted. His first tour was an East coast tour to such cities as Atlanta, Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York and Bermuda. While in New York he played at the famed Apollo Theatre and Lincoln Center and was taped on the BET network. He also participated in a worldwide music video on A&M Records with Ms. Hawkins that was aired on the Grammy Awards show. After this tour ended his work was solicited by numerous major artists such as Patti Labelle, Yolanda Adams, Donnie McKlurkin, Shirley Caesar, BeBe Winans, Ed and Walter Hawkins, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Daryl Coley, Beverly Crawford just to name a few. In all Sylvester has worked with 10 Grammy artists. He has also worked with some great and renowned Ministers such as the late Bishop G.E. Patterson, Bishop Charles Blake, Bishop Darrell Hines, and Apostle Richard Henton, etc. to name a few.

Sylvester has also done work in the mainstream industry also. He was the musical director for the wedding of T.V. sitcom star Courtney Cox of the show ''Friends''. He has had numerous offers from secular artists such as Prince and Frankie Beverly and Maze but declined because of wanting to stay with his Gospel roots. Currently he is concentrating on his series of instructional keyboard videos that's doing very well nationally and internationally as well as the internet receiving over 116,000 downloads and inquiries. He has also been busy as a songwriter along with his writing partner, Mr. Skyler Jett, who has sung and written for the movie The Titanic (receiving a Grammy) with Celine Dion and other movies such as The Body Guard, James Bond 007. God has truly blessed the life of Sylvester Burks but through it all Sylvester believes in the power of humility because without God's grace and mercy we would be nothing.

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