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SNAP!
Snap! is a German Eurodance group formed in 1989 by producers Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti. The act has been through a number of line-up changes over the years, including American singers, songwriters and rappers Thea Austin, Turbo B, Niki Haris and Penny Ford. Their best known hits are " The Power" and " Rhythm Is a Dancer", both of which took the No. 1 spot in multiple countries. Musical career Previous projects Luca Anzilotti and Michael Münzing started working together in 1985 in the group Off (Organisation For Fun) with Sven Väth. They recorded two albums, ''Organisation For Fun'' (1988) and ''Ask Yourself'' (1989), and a series of singles, including "Electrica Salsa", until 1990. The two created the side project 16 BIT in 1986 and had a big success with their first single "Where Are You?". In 1987, they released the album ''Inaxycvgtgb'' for BMG. Formation and first album Anzilotti and Münzing formed Snap! in 1989 under the aliases Benito Benites and John "Vir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Turbo B
Durron Maurice Butler (born April 30, 1967), known as Turbo B, is an American musician, rapper and beatboxer. He was once the frontman of the German electronic music group Snap! After completing a period of service with the United States Army in Germany, Butler went on tour with The Fat Boys. He was soon discovered by the managers of Snap!, and contributed to the albums ''World Power'' and '' The Madman's Return'' and their respective number one hits, " The Power" and " Rhythm Is a Dancer". After leaving Snap!, Butler pursued a solo career and also formed the group Centory, which has several minor hits. Butler is known to tour with other artists who were prominent in the 1990s. He has since contributed to singles by Victoria Silvstedt, H-Blockx, Master Blaster and Regi Penxten. Early years Born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, Butler started his music career as a drummer for a heavy metal band in his hometown. After joining the United States Army in July 1985, he completed basic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The Power (Snap! Song)
"The Power" is a song by German Eurodance group Snap! as their debut single. It was released on 3 January 1990 as the lead single from their debut studio album, ''World Power'' (1990). The song reached number one in Greece, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and Zimbabwe, as well as on the US ''Billboard'' Hot Dance Club Play and Hot Rap charts. On the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, "The Power" managed to reach number two for one week, behind " Vision of Love" by Mariah Carey. Background Written and produced by Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti (under the pseudonyms Benito Benites and John "Virgo" Garrett III), "The Power" went through several renditions. The original version was released on 3 January 1990 through Logic Records in Germany and contains samples from "Let the Words Flow" by Chill Rob G, " Love's Gonna Get You" by Jocelyn Brown, and "King of the Beats" by Mantronix. Despite it becoming an early 1990 hit in Germany and appearing on the Dance Singles chart in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Penny Ford
Penny Ford (also known as Pennye Ford, born June 11, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, she rose to fame in the 1980s after signing a recording contract with Total Experience Records and releasing her debut solo album ''Pennye''. The album spawned the singles "Change Your Wicked Way" and "Dangerous", which were produced and written by Ford. She garnered international fame as the lead singer of Eurodance group Snap!. Managed and produced by Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti, the group released their debut album ''World Power'' in 1990, which sold over 7 million copies worldwide and became one of the most successful dance albums to date.Snap! Biography Milk ‘n’ 2 Sugars. Retrieved on January 10, 2017 The album contained the hits " [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Ooops Up
"Ooops Up" is a song by German Eurodance group Snap!. It was released in June 1990 as the second single from their debut studio album, ''World Power'' (1990). The song is a re-working of " I Don't Believe You Want to Get Up and Dance (Ooops!)"; a 1980 hit by The Gap Band, with which band member Penny Ford was a former backing singer. The single was a world-wide hit and reached number-one in Greece. Lyrically the song is about Murphy's Law. The narrator talks about it and everything that went wrong during his day. Critical reception AllMusic editor Andrew Hamilton noted that the song is a "remake/takeoff" of the Gap Band's nonsensical funk riff " Oops Upside Your Head". Bill Coleman from ''Billboard'' commented, "Sizzling hip-hop jam should help act maintain " the power" over club and radio jocks." Dave Sholin from the ''Gavin Report'' wrote that "reaching into The Gap Band songbook, this powerhouse outfit comes up with the perfect remake, giving it a glowing nineties treatment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Mary Had A Little Boy
"Mary Had a Little Boy" is a 1990 song recorded by German Eurodance group Snap!. It was released in December that year as the fourth and final single from their debut studio album, ''World Power'' (1990). The song reached number-one in Zimbabwe and on the ''RPM'' Dance/Urban chart in Canada. It's lyrics are based on the nineteenth century Nursery rhyme, ''Mary Had a Little Lamb''. The chorus includes the line "Mary had a little boy, little did she know; and everywhere that Mary went, the little boy was sure to go". The song was re-recorded and included on their 2003 remix album ''The Cult of Snap!'' featuring Milky & 2NF. Critical reception AllMusic editor Andrew Hamilton constated that Penny Ford's "telling vocal and the story line" on the song make it "the most accessible cut" on the ''World Power'' album. Larry Flick from ''Billboard'' described it as a "fairly appealing hip-houser". Pan-European magazine ''Music & Media'' declared it as an "irresistable, [sic] nerv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Eurodance
Euro-Dance (sometimes referred to as Euro-NRG, Euro-electronica or Euro) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s in Europe. It combines many elements of hip hop, techno, Hi-NRG, house music, and Euro-Disco. This genre of music is heavily influenced by the use of rich vocals, sometimes with rapped verses. This, combined with cutting-edge synthesizers, strong bass rhythm and melodic hooks, establishes the core foundation of Euro-Dance music. History Background Euro-Dance music originated in the late 1980s in central Europe, especially in Germany, where rave parties were becoming popular. By 1987, a German party scene was started by Tauseef Alam, based on the well established Chicago house sound and Belgian new beat in Frankfurt. The following year saw acid house making a significant impact on popular consciousness in Germany and central Europe as it had in England. In 1989, German DJs Westbam and Dr. Motte established the Ufo Club, an ille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Colour Of Love (Snap Song)
"Colour of Love" is a song by German Eurodance group Snap!, released in December 1991 as the first single from their second studio album, '' The Madman's Return'' (1992). It features vocals by American singer-songwriter Thea Austin and rap by Turbo B. The song was quite successful on the charts in Europe, and a top 10 hit in at least 11 countries, as well as on the Eurochart Hot 100, where it peaked at number eight. The accompanying music video was filmed in Death Valley, California. Critical reception AllMusic named "Colour of Love" one of the "standout" tracks from '' The Madman's Return''. Ken Capobianco from ''The Boston Globe'' complimented Thea Austin's "colorful" voice, describing the song as "a meek but graceful look at interracial love." Clark and DeVaney from '' Cashbox'' picked it as one of two cuts from the album that "stand out", remarking that "the sounds that are offered on this album have a little more depth and variety compared to their last release." A reviewer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Niki Haris
Niki Haris (born April 17, 1962) is an American singer and dancer of pop, R&B, dance music and jazz, perhaps best known for having been one of Madonna's backing vocalists from 1987 to 2001, and as being the guest lead vocalist on various Snap! singles in the early 1990s. Early life and family Haris was born Gina Nichole Haire in Benton Harbor, Michigan on April 17, 1962, the daughter of Grammy Award nominated jazz artist Gene Harris. Official site. She attended college in Southern California before pursuing a singing career in amusement parks and clubs in the California area. Haris gave birth to a daughter, Jordan Ann, in 2003. The father is member, producer, songwriter (and |
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Thea Austin
Thea Tereese Austin (born June 10, 1960) is an American singer/songwriter/ composer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the lead vocalist and co-author of the German Eurodance hit song " Rhythm Is A Dancer" by Snap! Early life and career Austin was born on June 10, 1960, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She began singing with her older sister Vontelle at the age of four and by eight singing became her paying profession. In California, she was a music columnist for magazines including ''The R&B Report'', an industry trade publication. She has four sisters, one brother, and has been married once. Musical career Snap! In the early 1990s Austin finished a tour in Japan and upon returning to Los Angeles began writing for a solo album with dance music producer Michael Eckart (Stacey Q). She was introduced through a mutual friend to Penny Ford who had just left the group Snap! to pursue a solo career after the success of " The Power." Austin met in Germany with the producers Michael Munzi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Newcleus
Newcleus was an American electro and old school hip hop group that gained popularity in the early 1980s. The group is primarily known for its 12-inch single "Jam-On's Revenge" (re-released as "Jam on Revenge (The Wikki-Wikki Song)" (1983)) and "Jam on It" (1984), which began as an anti-rap joke, according to founding member DJ and producer Ben Cenac. At the time (1981) we were going by the name Positive Messenger and were making music that had a purpose, either messages of love or faith or talking about the conditions of the world. However, we were still doing lots of Hip-Hop jams with our DJ crew Jam-On Productions. So, one of our DJs, Salvador Smooth, kept nagging me to do a Rap song. Having come out of Hip-Hop street battles in Brooklyn in the ’70s, I didn't really think much of the Rap records that were playing on the radio, so I figured as a joke I would make a parody jam ... I threw in an idea from an ventthat actually had happened in the ’70s, when a DJ who we had ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Frankfurt
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its namesake Main River, it forms a continuous conurbation with the neighboring city of Offenbach am Main and its urban area has a population of over 2.3 million. The city is the heart of the larger Rhine-Main metropolitan region, which has a population of more than 5.6 million and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region. Frankfurt's central business district, the Bankenviertel, lies about northwest of the geographic center of the EU at Gadheim, Lower Franconia. Like France and Franconia, the city is named after the Franks. Frankfurt is the largest city in the Rhine Franconian dialect area. Frankfurt was a city state, the Free City of Frankfurt, for nearly five centuries, and was one of the mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Electrica Salsa
"Electrica Salsa", also titled "Electrica Salsa (Baba Baba)", is a 1986 song by the group Off, featuring German DJ and singer Sven Väth and future Snap! producers Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti. It was the first single Single may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Single (music), a song release Songs * "Single" (Natasha Bedingfield song), 2004 * "Single" (New Kids on the Block and Ne-Yo song), 2008 * "Single" (William Wei song), 2016 * "Single", by ... from his album ''Organisation for Fun'' on which it appears as fourth track in its single version and as 14th track in the PWL remix. The song achieved success in many countries, including France, Austria and Germany, where it was a top three hit. The song was a hit particularly on the dance floors where it was much aired.Elia Habib, ''Muz hit. tubes'', p. 101 () A new remixed version was available on OFF's next single, "Step by Step". Track listings Credits * Produced by O.Büttner * Executive producers : S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |