But we listened to it after we got out of the studio and it was like, ‘I’m keeping this, this is too hot.’” Fans felt the same way, helping boost sales of the album past the double-platinum mark, or more than two million copies.Īfter various award nominations, K-Ci & JoJo returned to the studio to begin work on It’s Real, the 1999 follow-up to Love Always. “The song was originally supposed to be used for… another artist, a female artist on A&M Records.
JoJo told MTV that he penned the song about his daughter but offered it to an unnamed artist. Planned Parenthood backed the single “Don’t Rush (Take Love Slowly),” while “All My Life” gave the Hailey brothers their first number one hit. “All My Life” almost didn’t make it on K-Ci & JoJo’s album. The ballad-heavy record was a different avenue and venture for the artists to the sex-fueled work of Jodeci. In terms of singles, Love Always proved fruitful. The brothers released their debut, Love Always, in 1997. K-Ci & JoJo, along with Babyface and two of his brothers from the R&B act After 7, recorded “I Care ’Bout You” for the Soul Food soundtrack in 1997 under the group name Milestone. The Haileys collaborated with 2Pac (Tupac Shakur) on the song “How Do U Want It”/“California Love,” which was later nominated for a Grammy Award. As with Jodeci, K-Ci & JoJo’s success came swiftly. In 1996, when the promotion of the latter album slowed, K-Ci & JoJo decided to temporarily split from Jodeci to record on their own.
Harrell offered them a deal that led to three platinum albums, Forever My Lady, Diary of a Mad Band and The Show, The After Party, The Hotel. One of the first stops was Andre Harrell’s Uptown Entertainment, for whom Jodeci performed a cappella. The quartet shopped its demo tape to several record label executives in New York City. In 1990, the quartet formed Jodeci, a group that blended the vocal histrionics of gospel with R&B sounds. In the late 1980s, they met another pair of brothers, Donald “DeVante Swing” DeGrate and Dalvin DeGrate, who, like the Haileys, performed with their dad in the De-Grate Delegation. You can never predict that.”īrothers K-Ci & JoJo, began their careers in music during childhood as members of their father’s gospel group, Little Cedric and The Hailey Singers, in North Carolina. You never know if it’s going to be a hit or not. “You just never know no matter what you do. “I always thought I had (a talent), and after I wrote ‘All My Life’ and it was that big, then I realized it,” Hailey told Contemporary Musicians about the song from the duo’s multiplatinum 1997 debut album Love Always. It wasn’t until seven years into his career that he was convinced of his talent. Источник: last.Considering that R&B duo K-Ci & JoJo has sold millions of records, it is hard to believe that there was a time when Joel Hailey wasn’t sure if he could write a good song. Jodeci's last manager was Damon "Smooth" Hart. Complex magazine ranks the group 1st on their "1990s Male R&B Group Pyramid of Excellence" list in 2014, one of the most influential groups of the 1990s, and the best R&B group of all time. Jodeci has sold more than 20 million records worldwide to date.
In 1996, they announced a hiatus, which prompted K-Ci & JoJo to branch off as a duo, releasing five albums until 2013, when the group re-united for their fourth studio album, The Past, The Present, The Future (2015). Each album released by the group during this period attained platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and helped to redefine the genre, allowing for developments in thematic and musical content within R&B. Jodeci would incorporate hip hop soul, gospel and new jack swing into their music, which lead to the group featured prominently with hip hop artists during the 1990s. The group's critical and commercial success continued with the releases of Diary of a Mad Band (1993), and also with The Show, the After Party, the Hotel (1995), where the group experimented with various musical styles typically not associated with traditional R&B. After signing with Uptown Records in 1991, the group began to work on their debut album, Forever My Lady, which brought them mainstream success with the Billboard Hot 100 single "Come and Talk to Me" and the album's titular track. Formed in 1989 in Charlotte, North Carolina, Jodeci's members began their musical careers as two duos of brothers and, after years of limited success, joined forces. Jodeci (/ˈdʒoʊ.də.siː/ JOH-duh-see) is an American R&B quartet with members DeVante Swing, Mr.
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