Who else here was a Starpoint fan? Not just "Object of my Desire" Starpoint but "Don't Be So Serious", "Keep On It", "It's All Yours", etc Starpoint. Rene Diggs had a great voice and the band was tight. They never really seemed to find their own style in the early 80's but made some really good records. So for everyone that dug this forgotten old school group, show your love.

Guess they have been forgotten

I have one of their cassettes. I know there were a few songs on there that were cool, but I don't think I've listened to it since the 80's.

I guess I'd better go dig it out.

what it is, they got thrown in there with those other "star" groups... atlantic.. Midnight.... so people was gettin mad confused.. LOL... Starpoint was a Hot band indeed not forgotten in my book

Damn that takes me back."Object of my Desire"

You're the object of my desireeeee, baby, come light my fire


loved all the "star" groups

Starpoint

Five Star

Midnight Star

Atlantic Star.....







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Do you guys remember their 1983 jam "Delicious"? That song is fierce!


"Can I have....seconds?"

I was in a band from NOLA in 1986 called "High Quality" and we opened up for Starpoint at The Pensacola Civic Center.

They were very nice people and the crowd loved them. Renee Diggs was beautiful and the band was hitting hard!

Sadly, the world recently lost a founding member of Starpoint Mr. Ernesto Phillips.
Condolences to his family and fans of the band.
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Ernesto McKenzie Phillips, 50, a Columbia resident who was a musician in pop rhythm-and-blues groups and then produced a series of local entertainers, including singers Toni Braxton and Kimberly Scott, died March 25 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after a stroke. He had hypertension.

Mr. Phillips, a native Washingtonian, was raised in Crownsville and graduated from Arundel High School in Gambrills. He was a self-taught guitarist, and during high school he attended the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore to study trumpet.

He was a graduate of Anne Arundel Community College and attended Howard University, where he intended to study medicine as his father -- a psychiatrist -- had. He decided instead to make music his career.

With his four brothers -- George, Lloyd, Orlando and Gregory -- Mr. Phillips formed Licyndiana, an R&B group named after his mother and his sisters. Ernesto Phillips sang and played guitar. He also wrote songs and did production work.

Singer Renee Diggs, who was Mr. Phillips's longtime companion, and musician-songwriter Kayode "Ky" Adeyemo later joined Licyndiana.

Mr. Phillips had greater success as leader, co-producer and primary songwriter of a successor pop R&B band called Starpoint, which included the same members except for Lloyd.

The band toured nationally, opening for such performers as Luther Vandross, and appeared on "Soul Train," "Solid Gold" and other television programs. Its album "Restless" (1986) sold more than 500,000 copies, according to news reports, and included the hit song "Object of My Desire."

At the 1990 Washington Area Music Awards, Starpoint was named best R&B/urban group. Mr. Phillips, on guitar, was named best instrumentalist.

The group disbanded about 1990 as members went in different directions professionally. Until his death, Mr. Phillips worked as a producer. He owned and operated Longevity Records and Pearl Studios, both in Columbia.

"I pledged that once we made it, I was going to prove there is a lot of talent in this area," he told The Washington Post in 1995.

His best-known find is Braxton, the Grammy Award-winning singer whom he met through a friend.

In recent months, he worked as a counselor for teenagers at Sheppard Pratt psychiatric clinic in Ellicott City.

Survivors include his mother, Ana Phillips, of Columbia; four brothers, George Phillips and Lloyd Phillips, both of Columbia, and Orlando Phillips and Gregory Phillips, both of Annapolis; and two sisters, Diane Laguerre of Elk Ridge, Md., and Lisa Phillips of Columbia.

cranshaw62 said:

I knew Ernesto had done some production stuff but didn't know he had passed. Really sorry to hear this. One look at the credits on those old Starpoint albums and you could see he was the groups backbone. Really sad news but thanks for sharing this.

DavidEye said:

Yep. Funny cause that was the song (along with Don't Be So Serious from the same album) I was just playing the other day that prompted me to make this post. You could tell The Time's "Cool" really was the insperation behind the song "Don't Be So Serious". Prince's influence was all over that album.

"Til the end of the time" was the smoove jam.

I remember "Object of my desire" that was my jam right there....

intha916 said:

Yeah,you can hear the Prince influence on "Delicious" too.It's one of those suggestive,double-entendre songs that Prince was a master at.I once saw this group on Video Soul with Donnie Simpson (remember that show?) in the late 80s and they admitted that they were huge Prince fans.