 In the 1990s, he also worked as a producer of compilation reissues, and established a media coaching service and since the mid-'80s, he has written or updated the music bios for Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Lionel Richie, Usher, Whitney Houston, Patti LaBelle, Toni Braxton, Prince, Alicia Keys and literally hundreds of artists, producers, songwriters, musicians and industry executives.He wrote "The Soulful Divas", published in 1999, and "Break Down and Let it All Out", a biography of Nina Simone co-written with his sister Sylvia Hampton, in 2004.He founded a website dedicated to soul music, SoulMusic.com, in 2001.