Their debut album, C.M.B., was released on July 23, 1991. They were flown out to Los Angeles to work in the studio, recording the album in two or three weeks. At the time, they only had four or five finished songs. Due to the song's popularity, Giant Records wanted Color Me Badd to quickly record an album. The biggest hit on the New Jack City soundtrack, it peaked at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and hit number 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The song wasn't originally intended to be a single, and had been turned down by other acts including Bell Biv DeVoe, Keith Sweat and Christopher Williams. Freeze offered "I Wanna Sex You Up", which would become Color Me Badd's debut single, released on March 2, 1991. Freeze for a song for Color Me Badd to record for the New Jack City soundtrack, similar to "Do Me!" by Bell Biv DeVoe. C.M.B. (1991-92)Īfter signing the group, Mills asked producer Dr. Giant Records executive Cassandra Mills heard a tape of the band singing the song, and they signed with Giant on August 11, 1990. They wrote "I Adore Mi Amor" back in Oklahoma City with their producer and friend Hamza Lee.
The producers advised that, being a multicultural group, they write a half-English, half-Spanish song. There, Color Me Badd approached producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and started singing for them. In 1990, they bumped into Tony! Toni! Toné!, who got them into the ASCAP Music Awards. They moved to New York City on September 23, 1989. Bon Jovi invited them to be his band's opening act the following night, to perform in front of 20,000 audience members. They waited for him to leave the theater and then sung the 1961 doo-wop hit "Daddy's Home" a cappella for him.
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One afternoon in 1989, Thornton saw Jon Bon Jovi in a movie theater and called the other band members to join him. and Ronnie Milsap, and opened for Tony! Toni! Toné! in Oklahoma City in 1988.
They also sang for Huey Lewis and the News, Sheila E. They auditioned for him and he introduced them to his then-road manager, Adil Bayyan, who would become Color Me Badd's manager and convince them to move to New York City to pursue a record deal. They met Robert Bell of Kool & the Gang on May 27, 1987, when they were in Oklahoma City for a performance. The group came up with a plan to spontaneously audition for any big name acts playing in Oklahoma City. They first performed together in a school talent show, influenced by doo-wop a cappella groups of the past, such as Sam Cooke, The Temptations and the Four Tops. They aimed to be a vocal group in the vein of New Edition and New Kids on the Block. Watters selected the name, after a horse at the racetrack named Color Me Bad. The group originally formed in 1985 as Take One, but changed their name to Color Me Badd to avoid confusion with an a cappella band named Take 6.
They were all members of the school choir. The four met in the mid-1980s while attending Northwest Classen High School in Oklahoma City. Thornton and Abrams became friends in junior high school, and Watters and Calderon became friends in grade school. They made a cameo appearance as themselves on a 1992 episode of Beverly Hills, 90210. Their songs have been featured in movies and on television programs including New Jack City, Mo' Money, No Strings Attached and Glee. They were nominated for two Grammy Awards, won two Soul Train Music Awards and one American Music Award, and were nominated for five others. As of 2016, they operate as a trio with Abrams, Calderon and Adam Emil.īest known for their singles "I Wanna Sex You Up", "I Adore Mi Amor" and "All 4 Love", the group has sold over 12 million records worldwide, had three number 1 hit singles, nine Top 40 hits and a triple-platinum album. The original members of the group were lead singer Bryan Abrams (born November 16, 1969), second tenor Mark Calderon (born September 27, 1970), second tenor Sam Watters (born July 23, 1970) and baritone Kevin Thornton (born June 17, 1969). They formed in 1985 and broke up in 1998 before reuniting in 2010, with various lineups since. Baritone singer in American contemporary R&B group, Color Me Badd.Ĭolor Me Badd is an American contemporary R&B group that was formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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