Keyboard and vocal husband and wife team, Alan and Lita have toured and recorded with artists such as the late Grover Washington Jr., the late George Howard, Jean Carne, Kevin Eubanks, and Rachelle Ferrell. Guitarist Marlon Merritt recently completed a twenty-year career in the U.S. Army band. Touring extensively as leader of one of the 101st Airborne (Air Assault) Division Band's Show band and Jazz combo, Merritt has performed on stage with such notables as Amy Grant, Wynnona Judd, Athena Cage, and former president Bill Clinton. Merritt's combo was the first to play for troops and other Sheik dignitaries after hostilities decreased in Iraq. He along with the Division Band performed in a historic first Iraqi Arts festival held in nearly forty years after the fall of the Saddam regime. Other notables Merritt has performed with include Yolanda Adams, Phoebe Hines, and Ben Tankard, Plas Johnson and Charles Dungy.

Alan and Lita have performed at the Saratoga Springs Jazz Festival, Baltimore Harbor Jazz series, and several national venues with the late George Howard, Fairmount Park Philadelphia with jazz saxophonist the late Grover Washington Jr., the Hampton University Jazz Festival, Trinity College Workshop, Penn’s Landing jazz series, as well as the famous Blue Note jazz club in New York with jazz violinist John Blake, University of Pennsylvania Medical School Jazz events, “Chastain at the Cascades” Jazz concert series, Third World Festival at Centennial Park (2003), Swarthmore College Student Union Jazz concert series, “Jazz by the Lake” concert series in Stone Mountain, GA, St. Kitts Prime Ministers’ New Years Ball (2006), Morehouse School of Medicine Caribbean event, Atlanta Technical Institute concert series, opened for Jeffrey Osborne in June, 2005, and opened for Frankie Beverly 2006 at the benchmark 100 Black Men event “Le Cabaret” in Atlanta Georgia, as well as numerous functions and events for many weddings, corporations and philanthropic organizations.

'It is truly an honor for me to recommend the music of Alan and Lita Blake Music Group for live performances or events that call for live upbeat music. Alan and Lita are an extraordinary team whose experience with other artists affords them a unique musical perspective that I thoroughly enjoy.'-Najee