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Cross Insurance Center

515 Main Street, 04401, Bangor, ME, US

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Doors open: 19:00

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Vanilla Ice biography

With 20 million albums sold, Vanilla Ice has truly made his stamp in the hip-hop market, since bursting onto the scene with his US number 1 record “To the Extreme” in 1989.

Born Robert Van Winkle, Vanilla Ice has built up a reputation as a rapper, actor, and television host. He hails from Dallas Texas but resided in Florida. It was after signing a record deal with a division EMI called SBK Records that he released “To the Extreme” which broke the record of being the first hip-hop single that topped the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. It also broke the record of being the fastest selling hip-hop album of all time, maintaining the top spot for a total of sixteen weeks. It has since gone Platinum in the UK and 7x Platinum in the US, and 6x Platinum in Canada. On the album featured the song “Ice Ice Baby” which went to number 1 in four countries, and achieved Platinum certification in US, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. There was also the song “Play That Funky Music” which didn’t quite match the success of its predecessor, but it still made it into the top 20 of six charts internationally.

“Extremely Live” followed the release of this album on March 6th 1991, which made it to number 30 in the US and 35 in the UK, being certified Gold in Canada and the US. Despite the outstanding global success of “To the Extreme”, Vanilla Ice didn’t match the success of that album with any of his following five full-length album releases. Fortunately his song “Ice Ice Baby” has featured on many compilation albums since, and on Jedward’s cover of the song where Vanilla Ice featured on the song himself. The song made it to number 2 in the UK Chart.

Color Me Badd biography

Color Me Badd are a vocal group hailing from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States who formed in 1987. Since their debut in 1991 they have released four studio albums and are best known for their hit singles "I Wanna Sex You Up" and "All 4 Love".

It might surprise you to know that even Color Me Badd, an outfit that on the surface seem utterly tailor made, actually formed naturally. The original line-up of Bryan Abrams, Sam Watters, Mark Calderon and Kevin “K.T” Thornton met while singing in the same church choir in Oklahoma. They formed a band together just before high school after discovering their similar tastes in music and spent their high school years singing together, building a reputation with their doo-wop style harmonies. One of their early champions was Robert Bell of Kool and the Gang, who saw the groups potential and signed them up with a manager that he knew personally. This manager relocated the group to New York City, New York but found that in the big city, they were one of many, many acts trying to make a name for themselves.

After a year and a half’s worth of concerts and label showcases, the band signed to Giant Records in 1990. The band debuted in 1991 with the release of their debut single “I Wanna Sex You Up”, which came out on the soundtrack of a crime film called New Jack City and made a name for the group immediately. In time, the song became an astonishing hit, reaching number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and staying there for four weeks. It was also huge in the U.K and New Zealand, marking an international breakthrough for the band as well. July 1991 saw the release of their debut album “C.M.B” which spent a total of 77 weeks on the Billboard 200, selling a million copies in its first two months of release.

The band spent the years of 1991 and 1992 as one of the biggest names in pop music but it wasn’t to last. The band stayed at a more manageable level of fame for the rest of the decade, occasionally scoring top twenty hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and releasing albums that got far more critical acclaim than they ever did at their commercial peak. However they still weren’t selling, and after the commercial failure of 1998’s “Awakening”, the band split in 2000. However, Abrams and Calderon revived the band as a duo in 2010, and were soon able to convince Thornton back into the fold as well, they’ve been touring ever since, and they still come highly recommended.

Tone-Lōc biography

Tone-Lōc (born March 3, 1966) is the stage and recording name of gravelly-voiced American hip-hop rapper Anthony Terrell Smith, hailing from Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Originally a member of the street gang SouthSide Compton Crips, Anthony Smith later moved away from the street lifestyle to focus on his rapping. Tone-Lōc went from being a little known rapper to a pop superstar in no time at all with his 1989 hit “Wild Thing”. The single sampled the Van Halen song “Jamie’s Cryin’”, was co-written by Marvin Young, and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

After an out-of-court settlement for the uncredited sample of the Van Halen song, Tone-Lōc released the single “Funky Cold Medina”, once again co-written by Marvin Young. The single reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 13 on the UK Singles Chart, and went on to sell over one million copies. The single which samples the likes of The Rolling Stone, Foreigner, and Kiss was the second single from Tone-Lōc’s debut album “Lōc-ed After Dark” released in 1989. Issued on Delicious Vinyl, the album topped the U.S. pop charts, making it the second ever rap album to do so, and had Top 20 positions in the Austrian, Australian, New Zealand and UK charts.

In 1991 the rapper’s sophomore album “Cool Hand Lōc” was released once again on Delicious Vinyl. The album didn’t fair as well as its predecessor and after its release Tone-Lōc focused on his acting and voicing career included the films “FernGully: The Last Rainforest” and “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” and the TV show “Food Rocks”. The rapper continued to tour into the new millennium and contributed lyrics to the FeFe Dobson track “Rock It ’Til You Drop It” in 2003.

Live reviews

Vanilla Ice has evolved into many things since his smash hit “Ice Ice Baby”. For a while he was nothing but a joke and then kind of a normal guy next door.

He has had reality shows and terrible movies over the years but the fact is there are tons of people who can still sign every word to that song more than 20 years after it was released. There are not a lot musicians or rappers who can say the same.

I saw him him in a small club in Florida. It was more of a guest appearance than an actual show. He jumped on the stage during a set and did 3-4 of his songs. Of course he did “Ice Ice Baby” but he also did some other ones from that album including his other radio song “ Play that Funky Music”. The crowd was really pumped to see him and it was a great surprise. Everyone knew the words to the song. He was not dressed up and looked like a normal guy this look was much better than the cheesy one that he had in the 1990’s and really suited him better. It was a fun experience.

Anonymous

Montell Jordan is representative of a peculiar crossover that you have to assume was born more of business interests than it was anything else; he’s a soul singer, primarily, with R&B and new jack swing being his areas of expertise, but the fact that he’s spent most of his career on Def Jam’s Def Soul label means that there’s inevitably been the influence of hip hop, too, making its mark upon his sound. He met with real solo success in the mid-nineties, particularly with the ‘Children’s Story’-interpolating ‘This Is How We Do It’, which shot to number one in the U.S. in 1995, but he’s written for others, too, penning Sisqo’s 2000 chart-topper ‘Incomplete’. Now a born-again Christian, Jordan continues to record and perform, although hasn’t done the latter on UK shores for some time now; save for a handful of intimate club appearances in the summer of 2010, he’s mainly focused on his native U.S., with a run of dates in support of his most recent album, 2008’s Let It Rain, seeing him run through career-spanning sets with a full live band behind him, both starting the party and stirring emotion in equal measure.

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Joeg_67

If you’re not entirely sure exactly what it is that ‘Color Me Badd’ is supposed to mean, then I’d like to think you’re in good company - I’d be lying if I told you I knew, either. Thankfully, though, the R&B five-piece had the good manners to ensure that we wouldn’t encounter similar problems with their recorded output; I don’t think any deep philosophical debates are going to be required to ascertain the true meaning behind their smash hit, U.S. number two single ‘I Wanna Sex You Up’, or indeed their American chart-topper I Adore Mi Amor, even if they did do their best to confuse us by segueing into a different language on their 1991 debut album C.M.B. They emerged from their native Oklahoma City with that record into a degree of stardom that, in the nineties at least, afforded them an impressive fanbase on both sides of the Atlantic, with the group scooping the coveted Best New Group award at the Smash Hits Awards here in the United Kingdom back in 1992. By the mid-nineties, there’s no question that their star had begun to wane - their 1996 album Now and Forever failed to meet sales expectations despite high-profile production credits that included members of Boyz II Men - but all the same, they reunited in 2011 - minus two of their original number - for a concert in Hawaii that ultimately led to a slew of further dates being added across the U.S. They haven’t yet made it back to the UK, but with a new album slated to be released this year, it shouldn’t be too long until they launch a transatlantic comeback

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Joeg_67

Whether you know him by the real name he uses for his acting, Anthony Terrell Smith, or by his stage name, Tone-Loc, you know who he is as a multi-talented artist. His song “Funky Cold Medina” is a cult classic song that people still love hearing to this day. Los Angeles born and raised, he is a great representative of the West Coast party in the ever-going east coast versus west coast.
Not being a one trick pony, his live sets are essentially one gigantic party. With people pushing their way into the crowd that surrounds the stage, everyone is having the time of their lives. On stage Tone Loc has a DJ laying down the tracks and few hype men taking the stage with him. His performance includes some of his best songs like “Wild Thing” and closed with “Funky Cold Medina” which meant an eruption of cheering. Literally everyone in the place seemed to know the words and was flashed back to the best times of the late 80s, early 90s. Between songs he takes opportunities to talk to the audience, either to thank them or to hype them up, and his hype men will also say a few words during the songs.

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