Shalamar
Shalamar are an American disco - soul band that had more than ten years worldwide success and managed from 1977 to place at least one hit in the UK charts in each year until 1986.
Band History
Shalamar was originally a studio project of the U.S. manager Dick Griffey and the British R & B producer Simon Soussan. Griffey worked in 1977 for the TV show Soul Train, which since 1971 almost exclusively African-American artists provides a platform and was still on the air in 2006.
Griffey took with studio musicians on a medley of Motown hits, which was published under the title Uptown Festival and the band name " Shalamar ". After the single was a hit in the discos and boarding in the charts, Griffey decided to fill the band's name to life. Through Soul Train, he found Jody Watley, Jeffrey Daniel and Gerald Brown, who worked as a dancer in the show. Brown was a very short time replaced by Howard Hewett. These three singers were then known as Shalamar.
The end of 1978, the era of their dance Soul Hits began with the song Take That to the Bank. A year later with The Second Time Around is the first top - ten hit, which also was a million-seller, and in the early 1980s were Shalamar stars in the U.S. as the British R & B and disco scene.
Watley and Daniel left the band in 1983 because their record company Solar Records wanted to give them a more rock sound. Howard Hewett both replaced by Micki Free and Delissa Davis, what the success initially not affected. The newly formed Shalamar rose 1984 Dancing in the Sheets, which was used in the film Footloose back in the U.S. top twenty one. Do not Get Stopped in Beverly Hills - another track on the album Heartbreak - was used in the movie Beverly Hills Cop and brought Hewett and Free as authors thus a Grammy.
1986 Howard Hewett left the band to start a solo career; he was replaced by the ex- football player Justin Sydney.
The group eventually broke up after the release of Wake Up 1990. Jeffrey Daniels only solo success was in 1991 with the eponymous album and the single She's That Girl. Most successful former Shalamar member was Jody Watley.
2005 Hewett and Daniel got back together and recruited Carolyn Griffey, daughter of Shalamar inventor Dick Griffey and singer Carrie Lucas. The three took part in the UK on the TV show Hit Me Baby One More Time, in which the audience rated, should get the winner a new recording contract which former star. Although Shalamar lost to Shakin 'Stevens, but stayed together and have become strong again as Shalamar in clubs or otherwise give concerts.