European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse A a a Kwh a .-tt?.,entertainment by Jennifer Bowles the associated press color me add did t sing the blues after losing the Best new artist grammy to Singer songwriter Marc Cohn this year. After All the Doo Wop hip hop quartet s debut album has gone double Platinum. They picked up an american music awards trophy for their sizzling single i Wanna sex you up and they re getting guest appearances on network television. But these four Oklahoma City lads have bigger concerns. Quot world peace a a lot of people take that lightly we re very serious about it Quot said 22-year-old Kevin Thornton. Quot it s More than saying just say no you have to teach people to live it. We won t Tell anybody anything that we re not willing to apply to our lives As in a recent interview Thornton and Sam Watters talked about their aspirations to spearhead a Noble Effort one Day much As Bob Geldof has done. Geldof is the Irish Rocker who rounded up big name acts in the mid 80s to record a Christmas song during his band Aid fund raising for african famine Relief. Quot we feel that we have a ministry or a service that we can be doing right now Quot Watters said Quot because we believe in love and we believe in god. And we want to do our part to spread it around the the god part there is not quite what one would expect from a band which croons i Wanna sex you up. Quot first of All it s important to understand that song was written for new Jack City Quot the 21-year-old Watters said. Quot you re not going to go and write a Goody Goody song for a movie that s about drugs and All that. Quot and also it had to be something from the Street. And i Wanna sex you up is basically Street the song comes from their debut album , which has Spaw Ned the other top 10 hits All 4 love and i adore i Amor. Like other Young acts a Boyz ii men Vogue and Wilson Phillips a color me add emphasizes harmonized vocals with a blend of danceable pop and me add wants to do Good Quot we kind of do the temptations thing but kind of updated Quot Watters said. Despite its title and risque lyrics Watters insists i Wanna be you up which won the group the am a trophy for Best soul rhythm and blues song retains an element of class. Quot if you listen to the lyrics it never degrades a woman it even asks her to be a wife. It s very Classy Quot Watters said. Quot and when we finished it we Felt comfortable because we Felt we approached sex from a positive Side. We weren t promoting promiscuity we did t want people to take it like Back Home in Oklahoma City Watters Thornton and the other group members Bryan Abrams and Mark Calderon promoted themselves to get noticed. Virtually every major band that passed through Bon Jovi Huey Lewis and the news and Kool and the gang was subject to an a Cappella onslaught by the then High schooners. Quot when we got the fever to make it big there were no record companies or anyone to get you started Quot Watters said. Quot All we could do is wait for the big groups to come into town. We knew that they had somebody. Quot so we d wait for them to come into town and we d try to Chase their bus Down find out what hotel they re staying at and sing a Cappella for they finally got noticed by Myles Sanders their current manager who took the boys under his Wing and brought them to his Small one bedroom apartment in new York. Quot we feel that if we could have lasted a year and a half in that one bedroom apartment we can definitely stick together Quot Watters said. That year is paying off. The group now has a lavish six bedroom House on new York s Long Island and growing Fame. It just might be ready to tackle world peace. Color me add clockwise from top left Bryan Abrams Sam Watters Mark Calderon and Kevin a singles 1. Jump Kris Kross 2 my Lowen Vogue 3. Bohemian rhapsody Queen 4. Save the Best for last Vanessa Williams 5. Uve and learn Joe Public 6. Under the Bridge red hot Chili peppers 7. Tears in heaven Eric Clapton 8 Ain t 2 proud 2 beg tic 9 everything about you ugly kid Joe 10 one u2 top a albums 1. Adren Auze det Leppard 2. Totally crossed out Kris Kross 3. Blood sugar sex Magik red hot Chili peppers 4. Classic Queen Queen 5. Roping the wind Garth Brooks 6. Wish the cure 7. No fences Garth Brooks 8. Never mind nirvana 9. Wynonna Wynonna 10 soundtrack to Quot Waynes world Quot a various a singles 1. Neon Moon Brooks amp Dunn 2. Some girls 00 Sawyer Brown 3. Papa loved mama Garth Brooks 4. Past the Point of Rescue Hal Ketchum 5 old flames have new names Mark Chesnutt 6. Nothing Short of dying Travis or Ltd 7 today a lonely fool Tracy Lawrence 8 every second Colin Raye 9 achy Breaky heart a Billy Ray Cyrus Art n a it in a a re of rent it to amp by singles 1 my lov1n you re never Gonna get it in Vogue 2 All woman sea a Lansed 3 Why me baby7 Keith sweat 4 jump Kris Kross 5 come and talk to me Jodell 6. Love me Trade Spencer 7 love you All my lifetime Chaka Khan 8. Can to have my Man Alyson Williams 9 sometimes its Only love Luther Vandrost 10 Honey love r Kelly amp Public announcement jazz a albums 1 Lush pfc a Joe Henderson 2. In tribute a Diane 8chuur 3. Play Bobby Mcferrin a Chick Corea 4. As serenity approaches Marcus Roberts 5. You gotta pay the band Abbey Lincoln 6. You can hide inside the music the Harper Brothers 7. The Gershwin connection 0<we Gruslin 8 heart of Gold Ellis Marsalis 9 soul eyes Vanessa Rubin 10. Blue Light red ought Harry Connuck or compiled by a it i
