Artist: Ini Kamoze
Genre(s):
Reggae
R&B: Soul
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
Debut
Year: 2006
Tracks: 34
The Hotsteppers
Year: 2005
Tracks: 1
Lyrical Gangster
Year: 1995
Tracks: 16
Here Comes the Hotstepper
Year: 1995
Tracks: 1
16 Vibes of Ini Kamoze
Year: 1992
Tracks: 16
Shocking Out
Year: 1987
Tracks: 10
Pirate
Year: 1986
Tracks: 8
Statement
Year: 1984
Tracks: 8
Ini Kamoze
Year: 1984
Tracks: 6
For Ini Kamoze, the road to success has been arduous and he has undergone many real changes musically and physically since he bristle onto the music scene in 1983 with his highly successful eponymic debut record album for Island. Known as "The Hotstepper," Kamoze advocates change through what he calls "intelligent and constructive militance" instead than random acts of violence.
Kamoze made his recording debut in the early '80s with a 12" single "Trouble You a Trouble Me" on Taxi and establish immediate success. He then began touring as character of the Taxi Connection International Tour with Yellowman and Half Pint. During this time, Kamoze was 6' tall, reed thin and appeared also frail to contain his powerful microscope stage front. He followed up his first album success with Plagiariser, but the recording received mixed reactions and wasn't as successful. Kamoze and so retaliated with various hit singles recorded on his Slekta label. One of the biggest hits from this period was "Lurid Out" which was finally picked up by the RAS label in 1988. In 1985, Kamoze had greater success with Settle with Me, which produced such hits as "C all the Police" and "Taxi with Me." By 1988, Kamoze's successes became intermittent and his vocation quicksilver. Kamoze suddenly disappeared from the music scene. He returned with a new, more aggressive mental image in 1994, signing to Sony and exploded gage into the charts with "Here Comes the Hotstepper." The song made its debut on the compiling reggae album Stir It Up from Columbia, and and so showed up on the soundtrack of Robert Altman's feature celluloid Pret-A-Porter. Produced by Salaam Remi, it was released as a individual in 1995 and exhausted deuce weeks at the top of Billboard's Hot Singles Chart, and virtually iV months appearing on various other charts. Kamoze made a video for the vocal and with his husky, well-muscled flesh and long dreadlocks, no thirster fit the description of the liner notes on his 1983 debut record album that characterized him as a "pencil fragile....disentangled....six-foot vegetarian." With the success of his new single, Kamoze was forthwith a gangster and began a series of promotional tours in LA. Kamoze refused to categorize his music and remained open to tattle a diversity of songs from different sources, simply he took a x longsighted break in front surfacing over again. When he did, it was with Debut, a 2006 album that featured rerecordings of his early hits.
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