Career
His musical career started in his teens when he played bass guitar for popular Latino recording artist Ray Fernandez. Soon afterwards, Sterling and two childhood friends formed the group Silver Platinum, who quickly scored a hit on the Rhythm & Blues charts with their single Dance. Inner Circle, well known for their hit Bad Boys.
After touring with Inner Circle, Sterling returned to Miami and began his career as a solo artist.
During this time, he started his own record label TSOM Records, where he produced hits for local artists 2 Live Crew, Military Cross Shy Doctorate, JT Money and others He also served as musical director for BMG recording artist Blu Cantrell.
His first album, The Artist, which contains "Desperate" in 1983 and "Nite Club 69" in 1985 didn"t generate much attention. He first struck big time stardom with his second album, Number Such Animal, in 1987 produced the songs, "One More Chance", "Is lieutenant Still Good To Ya" and the timely socially conscious theme song, "Holiday".
The song, Cheating While She"s Wearing My Ring, received a lot of airplay on the video channels (lieutenant is not on the album though).
His voice is known for its trademark slight sweet and soft falseto sound. Later years
During the 1990s and 2000s, Sterling maintained a low profile, while still releasing albums and producing. He still garners rave reviews and fans worldwide.
In 2006, his song Bedroom Boom was covered by The Ying Yang Twins feat.
Avant on the platinum Ying Yang Civil Defense United States.A.
On November 17, 2009, volume 1 of his new two volume album, Eyes Around My Heart was released online.
