Biography
Jamiroquai - Leader-centered multi-fan British group, the third album of which came to the Guinness Book of Records as the world's best-selling Funky Music Collection. Even those who are not a fan of the team know the "Jam-Iroquois" on the Logo "Bizon" and the bizarre head of their frontman of Jay Kay.The history of creation and composition
The history of the creation and the whole creative way of Jamirquai is inextricably linked with the name of the native of the city of Stretford, who received the name of Jason Louis Chitham at birth. The group is sometimes even identified with Jeide, mistakenly believing that Jamiroquai is a solo project.
The musician was born in the penultimate day of 1969. Jason's mother - jazz singer Adrian Judith Pringle from 16 years old spoke under the pseudonym Karen Kay, who later inherited the Son. With a biological father - Guitarist from Portugal Louis Sanaya Jay met, already being a 32-year-old man.
From the age of 15, Chithem ramped and slowed down by drugs, but after injured in a fight and arrest decided to take up the mind. In 1992, Jay, with the help of familiar musicians, recorded the song WHEN YOU GONNA LEARN?, Which came to taste to listeners, that Sony concluded a contract with a gifted debutant for eight albums. The guy had to emerge as a group. So appeared jamiroquai.
In the first team of the collective, except for Vocalist Jay and traditional for groups of all directions of the keyboard player (Toby Smith), the drummer (Nick Wan Helder) and the bass guitarist (Stuart Zender), entered DJ DJ D-Zire and Wallis Buchanan, which, despite the Finnish Familia, played on the brass tool Australian Aboriginal Didgered. The musicians were peers - all were born at the turn of the 60s and 70s of the XX century.
Embed from getty imagesIn the future, the composition changed not only by participants, but also on tools - a guitar, thrombone, flughelgorn, saxophone, flute and percussion appeared in the group. As of 2020, the oldest participants of Jamiroquai, except for Jay Kay, are the drummer Derrick Mackenzie and the Akingbol Schola Percussionist, playing the team from 1994. It is noteworthy that the group includes musicians from different races.
Music
The Debut Collection of Jamiroquai Emergency On Planet Earth, published in 1993, headed British Charts. The album whose music was called a psychedelic mixture of hard funky rhythms with soul melodies of the 70s of the 20th century, seasoned with hints to acid rock, was divided into the world in the amount of 1.3 million copies.The same commercial success was waiting for the second disk of The Return of the Space Cowboy. It is curious that in the US banned clips into two most popular songs from both albums: When you Gonna Learn? I did not like it because of the demonstration of the frames of Nazi gatherings, and Space Cowboy is due to the text that approves the consumption of light drugs.
However, the most successful Discography Jamirquai was the Traveling Wort Moving collection, released in 1996. Sales of the album, whose name seemed to be taken from the Line of Vladimir Vysotsky "Running on the site generally accepting", amounted to 11 million copies. The main hits of the compositions of Virtual Insanity and Cosmic Girl, the first of which was awarded the Grammy Prize.
In subsequent albums, the experiments of the group with genres intensified. So in the fourth compilation of Jamirquai, the techno-style tracks appeared, the fifth had an electronic sound (the most famous song from it is Love Foolosophy), and the sixth included the elements of Funk, Rock, Smus jazz and disco. However, in all albums, the Group gave tribute to the music of America's indigenous people, and in the texts expressed concern about the environmental and other problems of the Earth.
The seventh studio record Jamiroquai came out in 2010, and the eighth - in 2017. The group has been repeatedly (in particular, in 2006 and 2018) came to tour to Moscow. With photos and recordings, Jamiroquai can be found on the website of the team.
Jamiroquai now
2020 For most of the real and former participants, Jamiroquai was characterized by a creative lull caused by a pandemic of coronavirus infection and the abolition of concerts. The planned group of groups in Europe, North and South America did not take place.
On jamiroquai pages in "Instagram" and "Twitter", Jay Kay posted a series of photos on which he looked like a Russian dacha pensioner, as well as a roller in which he said that self-insulation with his family is the best period of his life. But the former keyboard player Matt Johnson in July 2020 released the new album with the Music.
Discography
- 1993 - Emergency on Planet Earth
- 1994 - The Return of the Space Cowboy
- 1996 - Traveling Wort Moving
- 1999 - Synkronized
- 2001 - A FUNK ODYSSEY
- 2005 - Dynamite.
- 2006 - HIGH TIMES: SINGLES 1992-2006
- 2010 - Rock Dust Light Star
- 2017 - Automaton.
Clips
- Virtual Insanity.
- Cosmi Girl
- Little L.
- You Give Me Something
- Canned Heat.
- Alright
- Cloud 9.
- Automaton.
- Corner of the Earth
- Blow Your Mind.
- Tooo Young to Die
- (DON'T) Give Hate a Chance
- Blue Skies.
- White Knuckle Ride.
- FEELS JUST LIKE IT SHOULD
- Stillness In Time.
- WHEN YOU GONNA LEARN?
- Half The Man.
- Summer Girl
- King For a Day
- White Knuckle Ride.
- Lifeline.
- Emergency ON Planet Earth
- Superfresh.
- SuperSonic
- Canned Heat.