Madonna and Jellybean Benitez, c. 1983Benitez started to remix singles, such as Jimmy Spicer's "The Bubble Bunch," Rocker’s Revenge’s "Walking on Sunshine," and Afrika Bambaataa's "Planet Rock." Stephen Bray of the group Breakfast Club went to Benitez for a remix. This led to Benitez being introduced to Bray's band mate at the time, Madonna. A romantic relationship developed between the two that lasted about two years. Benitez became involved with remixing on Madonna's self-titled debut album in 1983, including the singles "Everybody", "Borderline", and "Lucky Star." He also produced "Holiday."[1]

[edit] Remixing other artists
Benitez went on to produce Whitney Houston's Top ten hit "Love Will Save the Day" from her sophomore album Whitney, and eventually remixed songs for such artists as Hall & Oates, George Benson, Shalamar, Jocelyn Brown, Patti Austin, Bobby O,Sheena Easton, Talking Heads, James Ingram, Billy Joel, The Pointer Sisters, Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney.[1]

He was also an artist in his own right although he did not actually sing on the recordings released under his name. Instead he would have featured singers such as Madonna on "Sidewalk Talk"; "The Real Thing" (UK #13, 1987) which featured Steven Dante; "Who Found Who" (UK #10, 1988) with Elisa Fiorillo; and "Just a Mirage" (UK #13, 1988) with vocals by Adele Bertei.[1]

When Jocelyn Brown's voice was used on the single/dub version of the worldwide Snap! hit single, The Power, Jellybean admitted that he turned the rights to the song "Love's Gonna Get You" (from which the lines "It's getting kinda heavy" and "He could break my heart" were sampled from) over to Snap!'s producers. Brown later said of this,

I thought I had been cheated. That I had been ripped off. That no one even cared about the fact that how I was the singer there and no one paid me. No one respected the fact that they got it from there. No one acknowledged me or anything, it was very painful, it was...it's very hard to know that everyone else was living off that but me. It's still to this day—it's the same exact way. The very serious rights. It was only because Jellybean gave the rights and didn't respect anybody else, and he knows that."

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great producer. a lot of his work found in my music collection. so i most definitely appreciate him.

"Who Found Who".....haven't heard that song in years!

OMG I just got a cd of his called Jellybean Rocks the House which has who found who and sidewalk talk on it. Jellybean is the man!!