Baha Men

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The Baha Men in June 2010
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Who Let the Dogs Out
  CH 31 03/11/2001 (6 weeks)
  UK 100 03/03/2001 (1 week)
  US 5 
Triple platinum
× 3
Triple platinum
08/26/2000 (46 weeks)
Move It Like This
  US 57 04/13/2002 (12 weeks)
Singles
Who Let the Dogs Out
  DE 6th 
gold
gold
11/20/2000 (18 weeks)
  AT 26th 01/14/2001 (13 weeks)
  CH 6th 07/01/2001 (18 weeks)
  UK 2 
platinum
platinum
10/14/2000 (29 weeks)
  US 40 07/22/2000 (20 weeks)
You All Dat (& Imani Coppola )
  DE 62 03/12/2001 (7 weeks)
  AT 59 03/25/2001 (5 weeks)
  CH 86 03/11/2001 (4 weeks)
  UK 14th 02/03/2001 (6 weeks)
  US 94 02/03/2001 (4 weeks)
Best Years of Our Lives
  AT 66 08/05/2001 (4 weeks)
  CH 70 07/08/2001 (5 weeks)
Move It Like This
  DE 76 04/01/2002 (5 weeks)
  CH 65 04/14/2002 (1 week)
  UK 16 07/13/2002 (7 weeks)

The Baha Men are a musical group from the Bahamas . Her style is a modern pop / dance mix of Soca , Hip-Hop , Reggae and Junkanoo . They are best known for their biggest hit, Who Let the Dogs Out, from 2000.

Band history

Beginnings

As early as the late 1970s, Colin "Moe" Grant, Isaiah Taylor and Herschel Small merged under the name High Voltage . The three also formed the core of the band in the following decades. Jeffrey Chea was a singer in the early days when they made a name for themselves in their homeland in the Bahamas around the capital Nassau . The line-up changed, the band grew and renamed themselves Baha Men when they were signed internationally by Steve Greenberg to Big Beat Records in 1991 . Their first album on the new label with the title Junkanoo , named after the musical style of the same name in the Bahamas, was released a year later and contained newly edited traditional Bahamian music. Her second album Kalik from 1994 was created with the support of Lenny Kravitz and contained several pop covers as well as a song written by him. His (Just A) Sunny Day becomes a surprise hit for the band in Japan and ensures them a special success there for years.

They developed their own style after switching to Mercury Records with the third release I Like What I Like (1997), which was produced and co-written by John Holliday and Trevor Steele from the Escape Club , among others . It contained, among other things, the single That's the Way I Get Down , which consists of a compilation of songs by KC and the Sunshine Band . The fourth album Doong Spank followed in a similar style. Nevertheless, the international success remained low, only in Japan they were particularly popular and had already received five gold records as an award for their sales. When Mercury Records was sold and restructured in the late 90s, they lost their contract.

Who Let the Dogs Out

In 2000 Greenberg founded his own label S-Curve , he took the Baha Men with him and their first release was their album Who Let the Dogs Out . This was the breakthrough. It sat at number one on the world music charts in the USA and reached number five on the official album charts . It sold over three million times in the States alone, which equates to triple platinum status . The album's title track was particularly successful beyond North America, reaching number one in Australia and New Zealand and number two in Great Britain, each with platinum status. In many other countries the song made it into the top ten. At the 2001 Grammy Awards , Who Let the Dogs Out was named the best dance recording of the year, they won two Billboard Music Awards in the world music categories ( World Music Album of the Year and World Music Artist of the Year ) and the Nickelodeon Kids 'Choice Awards for Most Popular Song.

The song is originally a composition of the Soca singer Anselm Douglas from Trinidad , which he wrote under the title Who Let the Soca Out? In 1998 he wrote and sang for the carnival in his homeland. The popularity of the Baha Men version was also boosted by its use in the Paris film Rugrats . The song was later used in Men in Black II and Shaggy Dog, as well as in numerous television series.

As the second song from the album Who Let the Dogs Out , You All Dat was taken and re-recorded with Imani Coppola as guest singer. It uses a sample from the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight . The single became a moderate success internationally.

With their next album in 2002, the Baha Men focused on music suitable for parties and films. Best Years of Our Lives was part of the Shrek soundtrack and Move It Like This , the title track of the album, was part of the comedy Lies Have Short Legs . While the two singles hit the charts again in Europe, the album was again more successful in the USA. In the same year a compilation with the band's film and television songs was released, with which the Baha Men came to number 1 on the US World Music Charts for the third time in a row. Other film contributions were Crocodile Rock , originally a hit by Elton John , for Crocodile Hunter - On a crash course and for Garfield - The film of the song Holla! Speed ​​up .

In the middle of the 2000s these successes also subsided and after the album Holla was a flop in 2004, no new releases followed.

Members

Line-up around the year 2000 (nine members):

  • Isaiah Taylor, bass player
  • Colyn "Moe" Grant, percussion
  • Herschel Small, guitar
  • Anthony "Monks" Flowers, percussion (former member of T-Connection )
  • Patrick Carey, guitar (former member of T-Connection)
  • Marvin Prosper, singer
  • Omerit Hield, singer (nephew of Nehemiah Hield)
  • Rick Carey, singer (son of Patrick Carey)
  • Jeffrey Chea, keyboards

other members

  • Nehemiah Hield, singer (until 1999)
  • Leroy Butler, singer, rap
  • Fred Ferguson

Discography

Albums

  • Electrifying (as High Voltage , 1985)
  • Junkanoo (1992)
  • Kalik (1994)
  • I Like What I Like (1997)
  • Funky Nassau (compilation, Japan 1998)
  • Doong Spank (1998)
  • Who Let the Dogs Out (2000)
  • The Best of Baha Men (Best of Album, 2000)
  • 2 Zero OO (compilation, 2001)
  • Definitive Baha Men: The Early Years (Compilation, 2001)
  • Underwater Moonlight (2002)
  • Greatest Movie Hits (Compilation, 2002)
  • Move It Like This (2002)
  • Beach Baby (2002)
  • Holla! (2004)
  • 10 Great Songs: Who Let the Dogs Out (Compilation, 2010)

Singles

  • Togetherness (as High Voltage , 1983)
  • Back to the Island (1992)
  • Oh Father (1994)
  • Dancing in the Moonlight (1994)
  • That's the Way I Get Down (1997)
  • Who Let the Dogs Out (2000)
  • You All Dat (with Imani Coppola , 2001)
  • Best Years of Our Lives (2001)
  • Move It Like This (2002)
  • Holla! (2004)

Film contributions

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  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  2. ↑ Awards: DE UK US
  3. ^ Baha Men - Biography , Christian Justilien, Musicians & Entertainers Of The Bahamas, 2004
  4. ^ Bahamian Cry: Woof, Woof, Woof , Roger Catlin, October 26, 2000
  5. ↑ An Island Breeze Revives a Dream; At Long Last, a Bahamian Band Has a Hit on Its Hands , Neil Strauss, The New York Times (Archives), August 28, 2000
  6. ^ S-Curve Records - About Us , self-description of the label, 2007, accessed on November 16, 2014
  7. ↑ Awards for the album Who Let the Dogs Out : USA (RIAA database)
  8. ↑ Awards for the single Who Let the Dogs Out : Australia (overview 2000) - Great Britain (database search) - New Zealand (current charts, accessed on February 18, 2000)
  9. ↑ a b Baha Men Biography ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Sing365.com (copy of a former S-Curve label), accessed on November 16, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sing365.com
  10. ↑ Senior Year, 1998: Who Let the Soca Out? , Rachel Devitt, Rhapsody, February 14, 2013
  11. ↑ Baha Men in the Internet Movie Database (English)Template: IMDb / Maintenance / "imported from" is missing
  12. ↑ Baha Men: You All Dat - The Tokens: The Lion Sleeps Tonight from Who Sampled, accessed November 16, 2014
  13. ↑ Move It Like This (album) on Allmusic

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