Will Downing (b. 1963, Brooklyn, New York), is an American singer, songwriter, and producer. Downing's recording career has won a loyal audience of contemporary jazz and R&B fans with albums and concerts that have showcased his rich baritone vocals and unique interpretations of R&B and pop classics that stretches back to the early 1980s. Biography Downing enrolled in the famed performing arts high school Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, New York. The high school had one of the strongest performing arts programs in the city and included among its alumni singers Barbra Streisand and Stephanie Mills, and record company executives Clive Davis, who founded Arista Records, and Kedar Massenburg, who later became president of Motown Records.[LINK: http://www.blakeradio.com/html/video_lounge/vl_will.shtml] Will Downing Bio Downing, who eventually recorded for Motown, graduated with Massenburg in the clas