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Isaias Gamboa (April 22, 1963) is a Costa Rican-American music producer, songwriter, arranger and author. Born in San Jose, Costa Rica to parents of Spanish and Afro-Caribbean ancestry. His mother, Carmen Gamboa Beckles, was born in the coastal Costa Rican city of Puerto Limon and his father, Danilo Gamboa Mora, from the interior province of San Ramón, Costa Rica. A music industry veteran, Gamboa has written, produced and arranged more than 50 songs for major recording artists including three albums for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame recording artists The Temptations. Gamboa produced the Grammy Award winning CD Ear-Resistible, which won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Vocal Performance. He also produced the remix for "Pain" by Tupak Shakur for the Multi-Platinum, Above The Rim (soundtrack)〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Isaias Gambona: credits as producer, composer or arranger )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Billboard Goes Backstage at the Grammys )〕 Gamboa is also the founder of the non-profit organization, We Shall Overcome Foundation. Gamboa grew up during the turbulent 1960's and 70's in the primarily African American community of South Central Los Angeles. Considered a child prodigy, by age 11, he played several musical instruments and had even accompanied noted Los Angeles-based Blues singer, Ernie Andrews on the blues guitar, having been schooled in the genre by noted Jump Blues guitarist, Edgar Rice of the Alexander Nelson Trio. At age 17, Isaias was discovered by hit R&B producer, Leon Sylvers III, who mentored him over the next 15 years. Signed by legendary music industry executive, Clive Davis, as a singer and keyboardist, Isaias Gamboa was a member of the 1980s R&B band, Real To Reel (Arista Records). Notably, after having met Leon Sylvers III at a celebrity basketball game in Los Angeles, five-time Grammy Award winning music producers, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis produced their first ever recordings as professional music producers, "Can You Treat Me Like She Does" and "Don't Keep Me Hangin' On" for Gamboa's band, Real To Reel". Isaias Gamboa was also a founding member of the 1990s neoclassical R&B singing group, "Double Action Theatre" (Polydor Records) In the 1990s, Gamboa was mentored by legendary music producer, Richard Perry, whom he became friends with and worked closely with for many years. Gamboa is a licensed Christian Minister with a rich religious heritage. His mother was Baptist, and his father - Catholic. He also identifies his Jewish heritage through his Jamaican maternal grandmother, Louise Teitelbaum. This background, along with his musical expertise, has inspired and informed several important projects in his life. Notable among them is his 2012 book, ''We Shall Overcome: Sacred Song on the Devil's Tongue''. ''We Shall Overcome: Sacred Song on the Devil’s Tongue'' is the biography of Louise Shropshire (1913-1993), songwriter and close friend of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey. Shropshire played an important role in the creation of the iconic freedom song, “We Shall Overcome.” The song's, adapted by Pete Seeger and others, has been credited to “Unknown” for more than half a century, but recently uncovered facts (presented in Gamboa’s book) trace Shropshire’s uncredited involvement with the freedom standard to her 1954 hymn, “If My Jesus Wills,” from which ''prima facie'' and other evidence indicates “We Shall Overcome” was derived. Louise Shropshire's papers and artifacts were acquired in 2014 by the University of Cincinnati and are preserved in the Rare Books Archives.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.aspx?id=20383 )〕 According to ''The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education'', the Shropshire collection includes photographs, family memorabilia, letters, sheet music and other documents. The collection is held in UC’s Archives and Rare Books Library, located on the eighth floor of Blegen Library. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=University of Cincinnati acquires the collections of Louise Shropshire )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Isaias Gamboa (music producer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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