Club Nouveau
Club Nouveau is an American Contemporary R & B / pop band of the 1980s.
Band History
After the dissolution of the band Timex Social Club of producer Jay King decided in Sacramento, California put together a new group. Together with Denzil Foster, Thomas McElroy, Samuelle Pratter and Valerie Watson, he founded Club Nouveau and the label King Jay Records. The band received a recording contract with Warner Music Group and published there in 1986 their debut album Life, Love and Pain. This contained the songs Jealousy ( a response to the Timex Social Club Rumors Classics ) Situation # 9, Why You Treat Me So Bad and Heavy on My Mind. They achieved their greatest success with a cover of Bill Withers - Lean on Me - classic from 1972.
The subsequent singles failed to match the success, however, found in the U.S. R & B charts their attention. For Lean on Me, the group won an award at the Grammy Awards 1988. 1995 saw the last album Everything Is Black, after which the group disbanded.
Later, Foster and McElroy, a music production team and founded in 1988 En Vogue.
Reception
The song Why You Treat Me So Bad was in the 1990s, both of Luniz (I Got Five on It ), as used with R. Kelly and Puff Daddy statisfy You as a sample.
Discography
Albums
- Life, Love and Pain ( 1986)
- Listen to the Message ( 1988)
- Under a Nouveau Groove (1989 )
- A New Beginning (1992 )
- Everything Is Black ( 1995)