Ernesto Phillips

Ernesto Phillips died on the 25th of March 2004 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after a stroke.

He was one of the lead singers of the group Starpoint.

Ernesto was raised in Crownsville and graduated from Arundel High School in Gambrills.

He attended the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.

He was a graduate of Anne Arundel Community College and attended Howard University.
Ernesto and his four brothers formed a group called Licyndiana, an R & B group named after his mother and his sisters.
His later success came with the group Starpoint, whom, along with Renee Diggs and his brothers scored several R & B hits throughout the Eighties.
Starpoint toured with Luther Vandross and appearred on the show 'Soul Train'.
The group went their seperate ways in 1990.