Saturday, 1 April 2023

Barbara Tucker

Barbara Tucker is an American soul, dance and house music singer. She is best known for the 90s dance hits, "Beautiful People", "I Get Lifted", "Stay Together" and "Everybody dance". All reached #1 on US Hot Dance Club Songs chart.
Hailing from New York, Tucker found her voice from her love for singing in Church. Along with prolific dance music career, she has backing vocal credits ranging from George Clinton to Deee-Lite. Tucker also acts and choreographes notably with C&C Music Factory, Soul System, Jay Williams and Deee-Lite.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Mar 1994   23	Beautiful People
Nov 1994   33	I Get Lifted
Aug 1998   28	Everybody Dance (The Horn Song)

What happened next?
Barbara Tucker has since added 4 more US dance chart #1s to her collection. At time of writing, she has 8. "Stop playing with my mind" in 2000 (also reached #17 on the UK chart) was her fifth dance chart #1. She teamed up with Blaze on "Most precious love" in 2005. The Freemasons remix reached #17 on the UK chart, a year later. "Love Vibrations" (2007) and a cover of Lyn Collins' "Think (about it)" (2018) complete her collection of US Dance #1s. In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 63rd most successful dance artist of all-time (arguably should be higher now). Tucker is the only recording artist to have had a yearly residency in Ibiza.

Bamboo

Bamboo is an English disco house project created by Andrew "Doc" Livingstone (member of Hed Boys) and Erin Lordan. They are best known for the 1998 dance hit, "Bamboogie", which heavily sampled KC and the sunshine band's "Get down tonight".

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Jan 1998    2	Bamboogie
Jul 1998   36	The strutt

Saturday, 18 February 2023

Amy Grant

Amy Grant is an American born (Nov 25) singer who is best known for the international hit, "Baby Baby". She started in contemporary Christian music before moving into Pop. She often referred to as the "Queen of Christian Pop." She dueted with Peter Cetera on 1986 US charttopper "The next time I fall".
"Heart in motion" spawned five US Top 20 hits, "That's what love is for," "Baby Baby," "Every Heartbeat," "Good for me," and "I will remember you".

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
May 1991    2	Baby Baby
Aug 1991   25	Every Heartbeat
Jun 1995   20	Big Yellow Taxi

What happened next?
Continues to record, Last single was featured with Dion on "Hello Christmas" and "Christmas Waltz" with Marc Martel in 2020.

Age of Love

Age of Love is an Italian trance duo consisting of Bruno Sanchioni and Giuseppe Chierchia. They created one of the first trance songs, the self-titled Age of Love. The song has been remixed so many times over the years and one remix made #1 on the UK Dance chart in July 1997.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Jul 1997   17	Age of Love (Remixes)
Sep 1998   38	Age of Love

What happened next?
Last known remix was by Sam Sharp in 2006.

Afrika Bambaataa

Lance Taylor (better known as Afrika Bambaataa) is an American born (Apr 17) DJ and pioneering hip hop artist. He is best known for fronting the outfit Afrika Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force. He adopted the stage name Afrika Bambaataa Aasim, after a nineteenth century Zulu chief. He is of West Indian descent and cousin of Edward Rudolph (aka Kool Rock Steady).
In 1991, Bassheads had UK Top 5 hit with a sample of "Just get up and dance".
In the mid 90s, Afrika collaborated with Khayan on the album, "Jazzin" and featured the major eurodance hit, "Feel the vibe". In 1998, Another rework of "Just get up and dance" was made by Carpe Diem but rightly Afrika was credited. "Got to get up" was a UK Dance #1.

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Oct 1998   22	Got to get up

A1

A1 were an English pop group comprising of Paul Marazzi (Jan 24), Norway-born Christian Ingebritsen (Jan 25), Mark Daniel Read (Nov 7) and Ben Stephens Adams (Nov 22). 90 Hits (Discography):

Date	   UK	Song
Jul 1999   6	Be The First To Believe
Sep 1999   5	Summertime Of Our Lives
Nov 1999   3	Everytime / Ready Or Not

What happened next?
A1 went on to bigger success in 2000 with two UK charttoppers, a cover of A-Ha's "Take on me" and "Same old brand new you". "Like a rose" and "No more" were two more Top 10 hits. "Make it good" was their last top 40 hit.
In 2002, Paul Marazzi left the band. The other members continued promoting their third album, "Make it good" before going on solo projects. They reunited with a fourth album in 2010. Marazzi finally returned to the group in 2017. Their most recent release as "Spiders" in 2021.

A+

Andre Levins (or just A+) is an American hip-hop artist, best known for the international hit, "Enjoy yourself" and specifically samples Walter Murphy's 1976 rendition of "A fifth of Beethoven" from the album, "Hempstead High".

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Feb 1999   5	Enjoy Yourself

What happened next?
Not a lot since the 1999 hit, although he does have a social media presence supporting "his son" Lil Dre