genre black ivory
Black Ivory was a R & B group from Harlem , which had a number of hits in the 1970s , including `` Do n ' t Turn Around '' , `` You and I '' ( both of which featured Larry Blackmon from Cameo on drums ) , `` I ' ll Find a Way ( The Loneliest Man in Town ) '' , `` Spinning Around '' , `` What Goes Around ( Comes Around ) '' , `` ___MASK52___ We Ever Come Together '' , and `` Mainline . '' Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan . Since the 1920s , Harlem has been known as a major African - American residential , cultural and business center . Originally a Dutch village , formally organized in 1658 , it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands . Harlem ' s ___MASK94___ has been defined by a series of economic boom - and - bust cycles , with significant population shifts accompanying each cycle . ___MASK31___ is a ___MASK59___ ___MASK93___ that originated in the mid - 1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic , danceable new form of ___MASK59___ through a mixture of soul ___MASK59___ , jazz , and ___MASK17___ ( R & B ). ___MASK31___ de - emphasizes melody and chord progressions used in other related genres and brings a strong rhythmic groove of a bass line played by an electric bassist and a drum part played by a drummer to the foreground . ___MASK31___ songs are often based on an extended vamp on a single chord , distinguishing them from R & B and soul songs , which are built on complex chord progressions . ___MASK31___ uses the same richly - colored extended chords found in bebop jazz , such as minor chords with added sevenths and elevenths , or dominant seventh chords with altered ninths . The City of New York , often called New York City or simply New York , is the most populous city in the United States . With an estimated 2015 population of 8 , 550 , 405 distributed over a land area of just , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States . Located at the southern tip of the state of New York , the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area , one of the most populous ___MASK23___ agglomerations in the world . A global power city , New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce , ___MASK10___ , media , art , fashion , ___MASK50___ , technology , education , and ___MASK1___ , its fast pace defining the term " New York minute ". Home to the headquarters of the United Nations , New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world . Lawrence Ernest Blackmon ( born May 24 , 1956 ) is the lead singer and founder frontman of the ___MASK31___ and R & B band , Cameo . Starting the band " East Coast ", Blackmon and Tomi Jenkins formed the " New York City Players " as compliment to the Ohio Players . Having to rename the group due to a conflict , the band later called itself Cameo . Blackmon lived in Harlem and played drums on several hits for the band Black Ivory . He is the son of Lee Black , a former boxer . Haarlem ( predecessor of " Harlem " in the English language ) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands . It is the capital of the province of North Holland and is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad , one of the most populated metropolitan areas in Europe . Haarlem had a population of in . It is a 15 - minute train ride from Amsterdam , and many residents commute to the ___MASK21___ ' s capital for work .