Tom Tom Club
Tom Tom Club is an American group of Pop music created by Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth in 1981.
Tina Weymouth pine, Chris Frantz and David Byrne, students at the school of design of Rhode Island, had founded the group Talking Heads in 1974. They are then joined by Jerry Harrison. At the beginning of the Years 1980, the bonds distend, David Byrne becomes a charismatic rock'n'roll star and Jerry Harrison a producer with success (Fine Young Cannibals, Crash Test Dummies, No Doubt, etc). On their side, Tina Weymouth pine and Chris Frantz launch out in the adventure " Tom Tom Club". Their first album exempts a pop music strongly rythmée, festive, very influenced by the culture Hip hop, however unknown factor of the public not New Yorkean. The titles Wordy Rapinghood and Pleasure off coils will be successes, but it is especially the title Genius off coils which becomes traditional tracks of dance, so much so that it will be samplé forty times by artists as important as 2PAC, Black Eyed Peas, Busta Rhymes, Grandmaster Flash, NAS, Ol' Dirty Bastard or Ziggy Marley. The most famous Reprise again of Genius off coils is undoubtedly the title Fantasy by Mariah Carey.
As for their musical topicality, the two members of the group are musicians within the project Gorillaz of Damon Albarn.
External bond
- www.tomtomclub.net
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