Trik Turner
| Trik Turner | |
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| General information | |
| origin | Phoenix , Arizona |
| Genre (s) | Rap / rock |
| founding | 1999 |
| Founding members | |
Rapper / singer |
David (DLB) Bowers |
Rapper / singer |
Doug (Rid) Moore |
| Current occupation | |
Rapper / singer |
David (DLB) Bowers |
Rapper / singer |
Doug (Rid) Moore |
| Steve Faulkner | |
| Sean Garden | |
| Danny (DBX) Marquez | |
| Tracy (Tre) Thorstad | |
guitar |
Cristin Davis |
Trik Turner is an American rap - rock - band from Phoenix , Arizona .
history
The band was founded in 1999. In 2000 they self-published their first album, Black Seas and Brown Trees , with which they were also successful in some pheonix clubs. Shortly thereafter, RCA Records became aware of her and signed her. In 2002 they released their second album Trik Turner , which made it to number 100 on the Billboard 200 . The first single was Family & Friends , a song that made it into the top 10. The second single Sacrifice was released and the third single Father . Although the album sold over 300,000 times, RCA parted ways with Trik Turner in 2002.
reception
Alex Pappademas wrote in Spin in 2002 that Trik Turner was a band that loved hip hop more than understood it. You would often neglect storytelling in favor of banalities, but you would have flow . He criticized the bad rock songs, but praised their deep ballads.
Discography
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- 2000: Black Seas and Brown Trees
- 2002: Trik Turner
- 2005: Naming the Unidentified
Web links
- Trik Turner at Allmusic (English)
- Trik Turner at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b TRIK TURNER'S TRICK: TURNING ANGER INTO POSITIVE ENERGY. MTV, March 14, 2002, accessed February 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Carla Hay: Trik Turner's ´Family 'Values . In: Billboard . tape 114 , no. 14 , April 6, 2002, ISSN 0006-2510 , p. 22 .
- ↑ Producing tension. Phoenix New Times, June 12, 2003, accessed February 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Alex Pappademas: Trik Turner . In: Spin . tape 18 , no. 6 . SPIN Media LLC, June 2002, ISSN 0886-3032 , p. 114 .
- ^ Trik Turner. Retrieved February 9, 2017 .