Public Announcement
Public Announcement, until 1993 known as R. Kelly and Public Announcement, is an American R & B and New Jack Swing Band, which functioned until 1993 when R. Kelly's background band.
Career
After the then newcomer R. Kelly in 1990 his first recording contract with Jive signed, he was casting his backup band for his upcoming debut album yet. The background singers and dancers Andre Boykins, Earl Robinson and Glenn Wright collared for the position of R. Kelly's backing group and the first album Born into the 90's was published in January 1992. The album is a commercial hit and shoots straight to the third place of the U.S. R & B and hip- hop album charts. In addition, the album will receive a platinum record for over a million units sold in the United States. The four singles " She's Got That Vibe ", " Honey Love ", " Dedicated ", and " Slow Dance ( Hey Mr. DJ) " are successes. While two of them ( "Honey" and " Slow Dance " ) even reach number one on the Billboard Hot R & B / Hip- Hop tracks, the other two singles are top ten hits. At this time the group was entitled R. Kelly and Public Announcement. After a successful Tournée the group in 1993, Kelly left to start the project to a solo career. With him also Boykins left the group to which to chose for Kelly to write songs and act in the studio as a singer of backing vocals. The band paused after this setback for the time being.
By 1998, five years after the debut album of Kelly and Boykins, found the remaining singer of Public Announcement Robinson and Wright in the musicians Euclid Gray and Feloney Davis, who from then on took over the lead vocals for Kelly, a suitable replacement and released their second studio album All Work, No Play at A & M Records. The second album was a success, reaching number 14, the Top Twenty of the top R & B / Hip- Hop Albums. The lead single "Body Bumpin ' ( Yippie - Yi -Yo ) " was also the biggest hit of the band to this day can have and not only reached # 4 on the R & B singles chart in the U.S. but also # 5 on the pop- oriented Hot 100 list. Although the first single brought such a huge success missed the episode single "It 's About Time" chart entry. As a consequence, the label terminated the contract with the group. Frustrated left in 1993 added bumped gospel musicians Gray, the band around singer from Chicago Ace Watkins to be replaced.
Just one year later, in 1999, followed by the buzz single " John Doe". The taste of the third upcoming album was - contrary to expectations - only a minor hit in the U.S. charts, whereupon the new record company, Epic decided to move the album release. Some months later, the single " Mamacita " was launched in 2000. They do not builds on the great success of the last lead single "Body Bumpin ', but sells satisfactory ( No. 39 of the U.S. Hot 100 and rank 7 to the corresponding R & B / Hip- Hop counterpart ). With the release of their third studio album, Do not Hold Back is a re-release of the title " John Doe" hand in hand in 2001. The album and the song " Jon Doe" place in the Top Forty of the R & B / Hip- Hop charts. Also, months later followed the third single " Man Is not Supposed To Cry" with similar success. As a result of the disappointing chart positions the band is dropped in 2003 for the third time. Likewise, leaving again a member, upset the ensemble. This times it is Watkins (member since 1999) which ended the collaboration with the group. 2004 fills the youngest member of Mar -K gap. A native of Cincinnati singer is the only one who ever member of the group was derived without leaving Chicago.
2006, they succeed then together with Universal and the private newly formed label to publish the fourth studio album When the Smoke Clears. The album is a commercial flop and only reached position 99 of the top R & B / Hip- Hop Albums. No single will be coupled out of the album and the group decided to take a break to take care on solo careers can.