Jazz/R&B guitarist Dwight Sills got his start in Houston in the 1980s, playing with a jazz group called Axis. Kirk Whalum helped him get a contract with Columbia Records, which released his debut album, Dwight Sills, in 1990; it made the R&B charts. A follow-up, 1992's Second Wind, was less successful, and Sills embarked on a career as a sideman, recording or touring with Whalum, Anita Baker, Boney James, Rick Braun, Richard Elliot, Wayne Henderson the Next Crusade, and Brenda Russell. He was also featured on many sessions produced by Babyface. In 1997, he signed a new publishing deal, and in 1999 Citylights Music released his third solo album, Easy. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi