A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest was an American hip hop group formed in St. Albans, Queens, New York in 1985, originally composed of rapper and main producer Q-Tip, rapper Phife Dawg, DJ and co-producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and rapper Jarobi White. The group is regarded as a pioneer of alternative hip hop music.
They are best known for the heavily sample laden song, "Can I kick it?" and their collaboration with the Fugees, Busta Rhymes and Forte on the UK Top 3 hit "Rumble in the jungle" from the movie soundtrack for "When we were kings". They scored a UK Dance #1 with "The Jam EP" in August 1997.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Jan 1991   15	Can I Kick It
Jul 1996   34   1nce Again
Nov 1996   33	Stressed Out (featuring Faith Evans & Raphael Saadiq)
Mar 1997    3	Rumble In The Jungle (featured with Fugees, A Tribe Called Quest, Busta Rhymes & Forte)

What happened next?
Phife Dawg died on March 22, 2016, due to complications relating to diabetes in the middle of recording the aptly named "We Got It from Here". A tribe called quest completed the album at the end of the year and it reached #1 on the US Album chart. The band won best international group at the 2017 BRIT awards. The group disbanded not after a few farewell concerts/festival appearances (Bestival being the final one in 2017). After disbanding, a short film for the album's opening track, "The Space Program", was released on March 29, 2018 and billed as the group's final video.

Tori Amos

Myra Ellen Amos better known as Tori Amos is an American born (Aug 22) singer, songwriter and pianist. She is best known for the songs "Cornflake Girl" and "Professional Widow." She came to prominence with the release of her first two albums, "Little Earthquakes" and "Under the Pink" (and in off the brown). The latter was #1 on the UK album chart and spawned her top 10 hits "Cornflake Girl" and Pretty Good Year." She had more semi hit singles from her third album, "Boys for Pele" which included "Professional Widow". That song was remixed and spark an accidential change of genre when it first reached #1 on both the UK and US charts in middle of 1996. It would later be re-released in the UK (with the Armand Van Heldon mixes) where it reached #1 on both the main UK and UK dance charts at the start of 1997. She'd go on to have further US Dance #1 hits with "Blue Skies" (1997) and "Jackie's Strength" (1999).

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Mar 1992   25	Winter
Jun 1992   15	Crucify
Aug 1992   26	Silent All These Years
Jan 1994    4	Cornflake Girl
Mar 1994    7	Pretty Good Year
May 1994   31	Past The Mission
Jan 1996   20	Caught A Lite Sneeze
Mar 1996   22	Talula
Aug 1996   20	Hey Jupiter / Professional Widow
Nov 1996   26	Blue Skies (featured with BT)
Jan 1997    1	Professional Widow (remix)
May 1998   16	Spark

What happened next?
Tori Amos moved to Cornwall and married sound engineer, Mark Hawley in 1998. Amos has written two autobiography/memoirs, "Piece by Piece" (written with rock journalist Ann Powers in 2005) and "Resistance: A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Change, and Courage" (2020).
Amos scored her fourth US Dance #1 hit in 2012 with "Flavor." Amos released a holiday-themed EP entitled Christmastide recorded in COVID lockdown at the end of 2020, digitally and on limited edition vinyl. The EP consists of four original songs and features her first work with bandmates Matt Chamberlain and Jon Evans since 2009.

Tony Di Bart

Antonio Carmine Di Bartolomeo better known as Tony Di Bart is an English born (Aug 24) singer who is best known for the UK #1 hit, "The Real Thing" in May 1994. A follow-up, "Do it" reached the top 40 as well.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Apr 1994    1	The Real Thing
Aug 1994   21	Do It

What happened next?
Subsequent singles from Tony Di Bart's album, "Falling for you" failed to chart. His last known singles release was "I live for you" in 2004. He has made the odd performance over the years and his love these days is gospel and soul music.

Together

Together were an English group consisting of Jonathon Donaghy and Suddi Raval. They are best known for the rave track, "Hardcore Uproar", which uses samples of Obi Wan Kenobi from Star Wars and John Carpenter's "The End". Pressed as a white-label, it not only achieved the goal of getting it played at the legendary Hacienda nightclub in Manchester, but also reached #12 in the UK music chart.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Aug 1990   12	Hardcore Uproar

What happened next?
Suddi is still based in Manchester, has composed the music for numerous video games and now has his own audio design company. There is a hint of irony, in that Johon Carpenter's "The End" was also sampled on the Bomb The Bass' "Megablast", which was featured on the shoot-em up computer game, "Xenon 2". He put together a book called "A Brief History Of Acid House." and released a track called "The perspective" in 2020. He has a new project called "SiOS". Tragically Jonathon and his girlfriend Emma (who provided the vocals on The Together Mix) were both killed in a road accident on the island of Ibiza, circa 1991. R.I.P. A tribute night for them called Harmony was held at the Hacienda in September 1991.

Todd Terry

Todd Terry is an American born (Apr 18) DJ, record producer and remixer in the genre of house music. His productions extensively used samples blending the sounds of classic disco, the Chicago house sound, and elements of hip-hop. In the 1990s, he is best known for the dance tracks of the reworked Musique'ss "Keep on jumpin" and "Something goin' on", which both featured Jocelyn Brown and Martha Wash and reached the UK Top 10 as well as becoming Dance chart #1s in both the UK and US. The 1995 version of "Weekend" also reached #1 on the UK Dance Chart. He reached #1 on the US Dance chart with Shannon on "It's over love" in 1998. Also under the moniker of Gypsyman reached #1 on the US Dance chart with "Hear the music."

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Oct 1995   28	Weekend
Jul 1996    8	Keep On Jumpin'	(featuring Martha Wash & Jocelyn Brown)
Jul 1997    5	Something Goin' On
Dec 1997   16	It's Over Love (featuring Shannon)
Apr 1998   20	Ready For A New Day (featuring Martha Wash)

What happened next?
Todd Terry has been very busy in the last couple of years, particularly in 2020 where he released over 20 songs.

TLC

TLC are an American female voice trio, Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes (May 27), Rozanda 'Chilli' Thomas (Feb 27) and Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins (Apr 26). The name "TLC" is dervied from the initials of the trio.
TLC debut single was "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg", which reach #13 in the UK. This track samples James Brown's Escapeism (US#35 in 1971), Kool & The Gang's Jungle Boogie (US#4 in 1973), The Average White Band's School Boy Crush (US#33 in 1975) and Silver Conventions Fly, Robin, Fly (UK#28 / US#1 in 1975). "Creep" sampled "Hey Young World" by Slick Rick (from his 1988 "The Great Adventures Of Slick Rick"). "No scrubs" spent a total of 8 weeks at #1 on Canada Dance Chart in March/April/June 1999.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Jun 1992   13	Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg
Jan 1995   22	Creep
Apr 1995   18	Red Light Special
Aug 1995    4	Waterfalls
Nov 1995   18	Diggin' On You
Jan 1996    6	Creep (re-issue)
Apr 1999    3	No Scrubs
Aug 1999    6	Unpretty
Dec 1999   31	Dear Lie

What happened next?
Left Eye had an international hit with Melanie C in 2000 with "Never be the same again", where it reached #1 in the UK. Whilst recording their fourth studio album, "3D", Lopes died tragically in a car accident. Upon completion, TLC announced that it would be the final album. The two remaining members stuck together and eventually a self-titled fifth album was released in 2017.

Tin Tin Out

Tin Tin Out is an English group comprised of Darren Stokes and Lindsay Edwards. They are best known for collaborations with Shelley Nelson on "Here's where the story ends" (1998) and Emma Bunton on Edie Brickell's "What I am" (1999). They have collaborated with the likes of Tony Hadley and Espiritu. The latter was on "Always (Something there to remind me)" reached #1 on the UK Dance Chart in March 1995. Tin Tin Out also remixed for a variety of artists including Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, The Corrs and Des'ree.

90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Aug 1994   32	The Feeling (featuring Sweet Tee)
Mar 1995   14	Always Something There To Remind Me (featuring Espiritu)
Feb 1997   31	All I Wanna Do
May 1997   35	Dance With Me (featuring Tony Hadley)
Sep 1997   31	Strings For Yasmin
Mar 1998    7	Here's Where The Story Ends (featuring Shelley Nelson)
Sep 1998   20	Sometimes (featuring Shelley Nelson)
Sep 1999   26	Eleven To Fly (featuring Wendy Page)
Nov 1999    2	What I Am (featuring Emma Bunton)

What happened next?
Lindsay Edwards became a doctor holding qualifications in both physiology and mathematics, specalising in the fields of systems biology and machine learning and is now head of AI for Respiratory and Immunology at AstraZeneca.
Darren Stokes later joined Studio Killers.