All-4-One

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All-4-One
All-4-One in Bangkok.jpg

General information
Genre (s) Contemporary R&B
founding 1994
Current occupation
Delious Kennedy
singing
 Jamie Jones
singing
 Tony Borowiak
singing
 Alfred Nevarez
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
All-4-One
  DE 7th 07/18/1994 (20 weeks)
  AT 5 08/28/1994 (13 weeks)
  CH 3 
gold
gold
07/31/1994 (19 weeks)
  UK 26th 07/23/1994 (5 weeks)
  US 7th 
Quadruple platinum
× 4
Quadruple platinum
04/30/1994 (72 weeks)
And the Music Speaks
  DE 71 08/14/1995 (5 weeks)
  CH 49 07/16/1995 (3 weeks)
  US 27 
platinum
platinum
06/24/1995 (35 weeks)
An All-4-One Christmas
  US 91 12/02/1995 (7 weeks)
Singles
So much in love
  DE 56 December 19, 1994 (9 weeks)
  UK 49 04/02/1994 (5 weeks)
  US 5 
gold
gold
01/01/1994 (22 weeks)
I swear
  DE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
platinum
platinum
06/27/1994 (26 weeks)
  AT 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
platinum
platinum
08/07/1994 (20 weeks)
  CH 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 07/17/1994 (28 weeks)
  UK 2 
platinum
platinum
06/18/1994 (25 weeks)
  US 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 
platinum
platinum
04/23/1994 (30 weeks)
(She's Got) Skillz
  US 57 07/01/1995 (20 weeks)
I can love you like that
  DE 67 07/17/1995 (10 weeks)
  UK 33 07/15/1995 (2 weeks)
  US 5 
gold
gold
06/17/1995 (29 weeks)
Someday
  US 30th 
gold
gold
06/29/1996 (15 weeks)

All-4-One is an American R&B group best known for their 1994 number one hit I Swear .

biography

The four vocalists Delious Kennedy (* December 2, 1973), Jamie Jones (* November 25, 1971), Tony Borowiak (* October 12, 1972) and Alfred Nevarez (* May 18, 1972) met and decided to meet in Los Angeles , with a cover version of the song So Much in Love by the Tymes to apply from 1963 when a local label. Blitzz Records signed her and released the song in late 1993. It immediately hit the top 5 of the US charts and achieved gold status .

As a second release, they recorded a soul pop version of the country hit I Swear by John Michael Montgomery . The song became a million-seller and, at 11 weeks, number 1 was the hit of the year in the US. I Swear was at the top of the charts in numerous countries around the world, including twelve weeks in Switzerland , nine weeks in Germany and eight weeks in Austria . At the Grammy Awards she was named the best pop performance of the year.

This was followed by the debut album, which bore the band name and was also very successful. It stayed in the US charts for almost a year and a half and was four times platinum for over four million units sold . The other singles Skillz and Breathless , however, could not achieve high placements.

The follow-up album And the Music Speaks was released just a year later . The pre-release I Can Love You Like That , again a cover version of a Montgomery hit, again reached number 5 and gold status in the USA. The album only reached number 27, but still sold over a million times. The album did not contain another hit.

Internationally, interest in All-4-One was already extinguished. In the USA a reasonably successful Christmas album followed. In addition, they had a single hit with the song Someday from the soundtrack of the 1996 film adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame , which sold another half a million times.

Due to problems with their label, the third album On and On was released in 1998 and went largely unnoticed. Label changes and other unsuccessful releases followed. In the mid-2000s, Jamie Jones tried his hand at being a solo singer and producer. It wasn't until 2009 that the band got some success again with the album No Regrets , which was released on Peak Records. After all, it reached number 48 on the R&B charts and the song My Child also made it to the R&B charts.

Discography

Albums

  • All-4-One (1994)
  • And the Music Speaks (1995)
  • An All-4-One Christmas (1995)
  • At the Hard Rock (live album, 1996)
  • On and On (1998)
  • A41 (2002)
  • Split Personality (2004)
  • Greatest Hits (Best-of-Album, 2004)
  • No Regrets (2009)
  • Twenty + (2015)

Singles

  • So Much in Love (1993)
  • I Swear (1994)
  • She's Got Skillz (1994)
  • Breathless (1994)
  • I Can Love You Like That (1995)
  • I'm Your Man with My Baby (1995)
  • Yo te voy a querer (1995)
  • Christmas Eve (1995)
  • These Arms (1996)
  • Someday [# 1] (1996)
  • Listen Now! / Someday [# 2] (1996)
  • I Will Be Right Here (1998)
  • Not Ready for Goodbye (2001)
  • Beautiful as You (2002)
  • My Child (2009)
  • When I Needed an Angel (2009)

swell

  1. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US1 US2
  2. ↑ Awards: DE AT CH UK US

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