Turbo B

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Turbo B at Sunshine live "The 90s - Live On Stage" (2018)

Turbo B (born April 30, 1967 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ; real name Durron Maurice Butler ) is an American rapper and former member of SNAP! .

Life

Butler played drums in his youth . He joined the United States Army and was stationed in Friedberg (Hessen) in 1985 . After completing his military service, he toured with the Fat Boys . He released a single with Moses Pelham on the Offenbach label Logic Records . In 1990 he was supported by the local music producers Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti for their Snap! engaged as a rapper and front man. The first single The Power with the rap elements Butlers became an international success. However, after the release of the second album, he fell out with the producers and left the band in 1992.

Butler tried to build a solo career and in 1993 released the album Make Way For The Maniac on Polydor , from which four singles were decoupled. The following year he founded the band Centory , which reached middle chart positions with two releases from the album Alpha Centory, which was released by the EMI Group . After completing the tour following the album , Butler left the band.

In 1999 he rapped on Victoria Silvstedt's single Rocksteady Love and also appeared in the accompanying music video. As a snap! attempted a comeback the following year , Butler was brought back by the producers. However, the single Gimme a Thrill could not place itself in the charts and the project was discontinued. In 2003, Master Blaster and Butler produced the single Ballet Dancer , which made it into the top 40 in Germany and Austria. In 2005 another solo single was released with New Day , which, however, did not attract much attention.

In 2014 the band Susanne Blech hired the rapper for the song Killer is a Man Who Don't Fuck with the Music .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
I'm not dead! (with Thea T. Austin)
  DE 34 09/14/1992 (5 weeks)
The Power (with H-Blockx )
  DE 48 02/18/2002 (7 weeks)
  AT 51 02/24/2002 (5 weeks)
Ballet Dancer (with Master Blaster )
  DE 40 05/01/2004 (8 weeks)
  AT 37 04/01/2004 (7 weeks)

Albums

  • 1993: Make Way for the Maniac

Singles

  • 1992: I'm Not Dead
  • 1993: Get Wild
  • 1993: Nice & Smooth
  • 1993: What You See
  • 2005: New Day

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NME (English)
  2. ↑ Keyboardmuseum.com ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.keyboardmuseum.com
  3. ↑ Turbo B - Eurodance Encyclopedia (English)
  4. ↑ hitparade.ch
  5. ↑ austriancharts.at
  6. ↑ hitparade.ch
  7. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT
personal data
SURNAME Turbo B
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Butler, Durron Maurice (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American rapper
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , USA