Biography
Hits of this popular performer thunder on world dance floors in the 90s. Who would have thought that a poor guy from the Yamaican emigrant family would become a star of show business and reappears the Hip House genres and Ragga for music alone, which combines Yamai ethnic motifs and rhythms of electronic pop music. The RPPER compositions enter the Golden Fund of the 90s and became the classics of Eurodens.Childhood and youth
Jan Campbell was born on March 22, 1965 in Nottingham, United Kingdom. Parents are coming from Jamaica. They moved to Europe in the 50s and settled in the area of Hyson Green, settlement by emigrants-countrymen to preserve the unity of culture and traditions. They spoke migrants in their own purse language.
Yang went to the local school, but he did not love to learn, only physical education classes brought satisfaction with the boy. He grew flexible and plastic, loved to dance. At 16 Yang decided to leave the unloved study and began to study a carpentry business. But this occupation is quickly tired of a guy.
He began to marvel to wander around the surroundings and almost became local hooligan. Saved his work. Once he saw the performances of street dancers - Break Dranssers and was fascinated by their performance. The guy jumped to the guys who were the group "The Rock City Crew" began to rehearse with them and ride Europe.
So Campbell was in Italy, in Florence, where he decided to stay. He began to earn private brake dance lessons, and after the injury knee tried himself as a DJ. In parallel, Yang began to write songs, mixing native Yamaican adverbs to the English language. So the first compositions of the musician were born who were interested in the necessary people.
Music
It is believed that the talent of Rapper opened the Italian musician and producer Roberto Zanetti, known as Savage's creative pseudonym. It was in Tandem with him in 1989, the first hit "Easy" was born, who became a breakthrough on the stage of those years. The single has fixed in the top 5 of the most popular European charts.Even at School, Yang received nickname Ice because of his initials (Ian Campbell), added the console of the MC that in reggae-culture means "leading, artist", and formed his pseudonym. After the success of the first tracks, ICE MC began to record the new album "Cinema", which saw the light in 1990.
Based on the album compositions, a grandiose touring tour was formed. Ice Mc traveled half of the globe, having visited Russian Siberia, as well as in Africa and Japan. Such hits like "Easy", "Cinema" and "Scream" sounded on bis at each concert.
In 1991, I left the second album of the artist "My World", but he did not repeat the success of his predecessor. Roberto and Yang depressed by the failure of Roberto and Yang are accepted for the third album, but at the same time they think how to get into the stream of musical preferences to the public.
The creative decision was invited to cooperate the Italian singer alexia. It is her female vocal that sounds in all singles of the album "Ice 'N' Green". This work has become the most successful in the biography of the singer. The musicians kept him in the trendy style of Eurodens. And the soloist himself radically changed the image - he increased dreadlocks and brought much of the most Jamaican style into his appearance, which was still presented to the world public the legendary singer Bob Marley.
In the third album, ICE MC gold hits were entered: "IT's a rainy day", "Take Away The Color", "Russian Roulette" and "Think About the Way". The last single became a soundtrack for the film "On the Needle" of 1996. The disc broke the sales records and became gold in France, where more than 100 thousand CDs were sold.
In 1995, the remix album "Ice 'N' Green" came out, and then in Tandem Yana and Roberto began disagreements on the soil of copyright, which led to the rupture of the contract. Ice moved to the German producer Enrico Zakarrau and left to Germany to sign up on the Polydor Germany label.
The total of "Give Me The Light", created in collaboration with the German group "Masterboy", became the result of change in 1996. Track became the chit of 1996. With Enriko Yang writes his fifth studio album "Dreadatour", but despite the large number of bright compositions, the disk did not have commercial success.
Perhaps it happened due to the fact that the lyrics are overly politicized for the dance floor - Yang writes about the problems of HIV, drug addiction, unemployment and other social turmoils. Failures continue to accompany the performer. Written in 1998 singles "BUSY BODY" and "ENERGY" again remain unnoticed - Era Eurodenses unrestrained to the sunset.
In 2001, ICE MC decides to renew their cooperation with Roberto Dzareti. The result of the work was the release of the Album "Cold Skool" in 2004. The song "It's a Miracle" became the capital single, then a clip was shot at her. The plate came out with a small circulation only in Italy and was today the latter in the discography of the singer.
After a number of failures, Jan Campbell decided to put musical creativity on a pause and unexpectedly for his fans fascinated with paintings. The performer returned to his homeland in Britain, began to write paintings and sold them through his site - it earned up.
In 2012, it became known that the singer released several singles together with DJ Sanny J. In 2012, ICE MC introduced a new track recorded with Julia Gall. In 2017, the Single "Do Dip" was released, created in alliance with Niko Heinz and Max Kun.
Personal life
Information about the personal life of the artist does not contain almost a single source. There are no information about whether the singer was married if he had children. But it is known that he has a nephew of Jordan Campbell, who went in the footsteps of a popular uncle and became a rapper. Now he is known as Littles.
Ice Mc now
Recently, the performer produces remixes of his golden hits, writing them with various young artists. In 2019, the star performs on discos of the 90s with its famous compositions, touring around the world.In "Instagram", the singer is not present, but in "Facebook" his account is always active: the artist is divided with its fans with fresh news and photographs.
Discography
- 1990 - "Cinema"
- 1991 - "MY WORLD"
- 1994 - "Ice 'n' Green"
- 1995 - "Ice 'N' Green" (The Remix Album)
- 1996 - "Dreadatour"
- 2004 - "Cold Skool"