Friday, December 10, 2010
BOYZ II MEN’S NEW ALBUM SET TO SURPRISE
By Daniel Eade
“We think a lot of people are going to be surprised at the concept of the record.”Thrust back into the spotlight with two Grammy award nominations in 2009, Boyz II Men have now reappeared on the public radar. They are preparing to set hearts fluttering and ladies fainting all over the planet once again, with a new and yet untitled album set for release later this year, 17 calendars on from when they first blew up our radio airwaves.
BOYZ II MEN’s climb to success has seen them make countless trips to the pinnacle of the Billboard singles chart spending an unbelievable 50 weeks in total at the top spot.
This type of an achievement places them in the same company as other celebrated musical icons including Elvis Presley, Mariah Carey, and The Beatles. Timeless ballads such as ‘End of The Road,’ ‘I’ll Make Love To You,’ ‘On Bended Knee,’ ‘One Sweet Day,’ (the record breaking duet with Mariah Carey) and ‘4 Seasons of Loneliness,’ have skyrocketed and solidified Boyz II Men’s status as nothing short of legendary.
After their most recent release; ‘Motown - A Journey Through Hitsville USA,’(2007) Boyz II Men are still contracted to release one album from a two album deal they signed with Universal Records. Randy Jackson, most famously known for his judging on American Idol, is set to re-establish his role as producer on the new album.
Boyz II Men are being very guarded regarding their new material and even after potential tracks leaked onto YouTube, swift action was taken to have them promptly removed. Speculation
surrounds one of Boyz II Men’s new ‘slow jams’ suggesting that it will be titled, ‘100%’ - a track written and produced by the Inkwell.
Another possibility is the soulful joint, ‘Back To The Future’ (which can be found on youtube under Boyz 2 Men - Back To The Future) and even though the vocals aren’t done by Boyz II Men it is believed this is another song that has been shopped to the trio.
After making hit records and collaborating with multi Grammy awarding winning artists like Babyface, and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, to name but a few, Boyz II Men would undoubtedly love to again be presented with a stirring ballad or two or even three, from the before-mentioned hit makers before they finish off their current contract with Universal.
Although Shawn Stockman, one third of the line-up of Boyz II Men along with Nathan Morris and Wanya Morris, speaking about the new album on BoyzIIMenTV (the groups YouTube channel) was quoted saying; “It’ll definitely be different. We think it’s going to be pretty interesting.”
“We think a lot of people are going to be surprised at the concept of the record.”
And while we’ve been promised what is set to rock our speakers will be different, interesting and surprising, we can also expect Boyz II Men to deliver quality and class.
Credits to: http://www.zimbio.com/Wanya+Morris/articles/2/BOYZ+II+MEN+NEW+ALBUM+SET+SURPRISE
Boyz II Men: still the hottest group in music
It might be hard to believe, but Boyz II Men has only been around for six years. In that short time the group has broken records around the world and has managed to remain the hottest group in music.
Their debut album, Cooleyhigh-harmony, which was released in 1991, produced the gangster hit End of the Road, a song written for the film Boomerang. It stayed at the top of the charts for a whopping 13 weeks. It broke Elvis Presley's record of 11 weeks. The album, which also featured the hit It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday, sold more than seven million copies worldwide and made them an international sensation with standing-room-only crowds everywhere they went.
The follow-up LP titled, II, picked up where the initial album left off with a wide range of harmonious ballads. In one week, II sold more than 300,000 copies, dethroning the soundtrack from the hit film The Lion King.
The four members of the group, Shawn Stockman, Nathan Morris, Wanya Morris and Michael McCary, collaborated with music legends Babyface, L.A. Reid, and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis for this album that has spawned such hits as On Bended Knees, Water Runs Dry, I'll Make Love II U and an a capella remake of the Beatles classic Yesterday. The quartet also wrote and co-produced several of the songs on the new album, including Thank You.
Boyz II Men has captured the hearts of fans around the world because of their strong, soaring harmonies and the wholesome nature of their music.
They credit God for their superstar success. "He put us in the right place at the right time," McCary told Jet.
All four consistently point out that religion has always played a major role in their lives and racy lyrics have never been a possibility. II features songs about love, lost love and relationships.
"Everybody is entitled to do what they want to do," says McCary. "It just so happens this is what we want to do. This is our way of expressing ourselves."
Boyz II Men Biography
Clearly “the R&B group” of the nineties, Boyz II Men would prove to critics and fans alike that these “four guys from Philly”, as they put it in one of their earlier songs, have the goods when it comes to singing four piece harmonies. Nathan Morris, Wanya Morris (no relation), Michael McCary, and Shawn Stockman would go on to make history together several times setting and breaking some of music’s most difficult records to achieve. They are Boyz II Men and this is their story.
Formation of Boyz II Men
Original members Wanya Morris (born July 29, 1973), Michael McCary (born December 16, 1971), Shawn Stockman (born September 26, 1972), and Nathan Morris (born June 18, 1971) are all Philadelphia, Pennsylvania natives. They met in a high school for the performing arts where all four members, along with Marc Nelson; another Philadelphia native, all took classical vocal training courses.
The five young men would join together and form the group Boyz II Men in 1988. Marc Nelson would drop out of the group prior to its first album release on Motown Records entitled CooleyHighHarmony. It was a rapid ascent to the top for Boyz II Men members Wanya Morris, Nathan Morris, Michael McCary, and Shawn Stockman after they fought to get backstage to meet and perform for the former New Edition member/current Bell Biv Devoe member Michael Bivens.
Credits to: http://www.suite101.com/content/boyz-ii-men-biography-a164799
Boyz II Men
Where do you go after being one of the best-selling R&B male recording groups ever.,' Back to your musical roots if you are Wanya Morris, Nathan Morris and Shawn Stockman the silky-voiced members of BOYZ II MEN. Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA (Decca) reunites the group (minus Michael McCary) for a nostalgic trip back to days of tender rhapsodies sting by soul music master builders Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, The Commodores, Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. The Philly-bred Boyz II Men, possibly the only vocal group today that can expertly handle a Motown retrospective, places its own soulful doo-wop/hip-hop style on each track. Between 1992 and 1997, Boyz II Men had five No. 1 hits. These included songs of impassioned pleas of love such as "End of the Road" and "I'll Make Love to You." On its new CD, the group pours on more of the love gravy, with "Just My Imagination" (Temptations), "Tracks of My Tears" (Robinson & The Miracles) and "Easy" (The Commodores). The superb rendition of Wonder's "Ribbon in the Sky" is performed a cappella and shows why Boyz II Men remains one of the most successful male groups. Alter continuing to pay homage to Motown legend Gaye on "Mercy, Mercy He," Boyz II Men finishes the set with its own trademark song, "End of the Road"--which hopefully is not the case for the group. Should the entire Boyz II Men quartet reunite, how might the members harmonize on The Temptations' hit "Papa Was A Rolling Stone" with the bass voiced McCary handling Melvin Franklin's deep vocals?
Credits to: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_2_63/ai_n21147755/
Credits to: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_2_63/ai_n21147755/
Boyz II Men Capture Hearts With 'Love'; Out Now
Boyz II Men create their own brand of magic once again with their inspired new album, simply titled "Love". The multiple Grammy Award winners - and most successful male vocal group of all time - tackle a hand-picked selection of their favorite popular love songs spanning the last several decades. Love is the follow-up to their welcome resurgence after the 2007 Grammy-nominated Decca release, "Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA". Reuniting with producer Randy Jackson, Boyz II Men have made yet another timeless record with "Love", singing romantic hits as only they can, with flawless harmonies delivered straight from the heart.
"Love" brings together a refreshing and eclectic group of songs from a variety of genres as personally selected by Shawn Stockman, Wanya Morris, and Nathan Morris. The group made its unexpected, and surprisingly cohesive, song choices for the album based on their sheer love of the tracks, and their desire to make them their own with undeniably successful results. Highlights include a soulful rendition of Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me," Journey's soaring "Open Arms," Chicago's contemplative "If You Leave Me Now," Sam Cooke's classic "Cupid," The Beatles favorite, "In My Life," "Amazed," most recently covered by Lonestar, and a special guest duet with the incomparable Michael Buble on Nat King Cole's, "When I Fall In Love."
Boyz II Men have been hailed by the RIAA as the most commercially successful R&B group of all time. The group has sold an estimated 60 million recordings in a spectacular career about to celebrate its twenty year anniversary in 2010. The trio continues to perform to sold-out audiences all over the world, in addition to being sought after for high-profile TV engagements in the U.S. and beyond. Over the last eighteen months, Boyz II Men has made such memorable appearances as their duet with Justin Timberlake and Al Green on the 2009 Grammy Awards, a Motown medley for ABC's hit show "Dancing with the Stars," Good Morning America's coveted Summer Concert Series, Fox's "Don't Forget the Lyrics," where they won an incredible half a million dollars all devoted to charity, A&E's Private Sessions, The Wendy Williams Show, Live With Regis and Kelly, The View and most recently on A&E's Biography, with a full hour chronicling their rise to stardom.
In A&E's Biography, producer Randy Jackson stated, "I think they are one of the best groups ever, in the history of singing. True artists always have staying power. They'll be around forever." Of their new album, Boyz II Men each comment: "We remember how these songs made us feel when we first heard them, and we wanted to relive that experience by rerecording them now in our own way," says Shawn. Adds Nate, "We have very visual memories of some of these songs growing up so the process of making this record felt totally natural." Wanya says, "We love the lyrics to all of the tracks, as they've each had a huge emotional impact on so many people, including us."
Credits to: http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/12/05/boyz_ii_men_capture_hearts_with_love_out
"Love" brings together a refreshing and eclectic group of songs from a variety of genres as personally selected by Shawn Stockman, Wanya Morris, and Nathan Morris. The group made its unexpected, and surprisingly cohesive, song choices for the album based on their sheer love of the tracks, and their desire to make them their own with undeniably successful results. Highlights include a soulful rendition of Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me," Journey's soaring "Open Arms," Chicago's contemplative "If You Leave Me Now," Sam Cooke's classic "Cupid," The Beatles favorite, "In My Life," "Amazed," most recently covered by Lonestar, and a special guest duet with the incomparable Michael Buble on Nat King Cole's, "When I Fall In Love."
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Boyz II Men have been hailed by the RIAA as the most commercially successful R&B group of all time. The group has sold an estimated 60 million recordings in a spectacular career about to celebrate its twenty year anniversary in 2010. The trio continues to perform to sold-out audiences all over the world, in addition to being sought after for high-profile TV engagements in the U.S. and beyond. Over the last eighteen months, Boyz II Men has made such memorable appearances as their duet with Justin Timberlake and Al Green on the 2009 Grammy Awards, a Motown medley for ABC's hit show "Dancing with the Stars," Good Morning America's coveted Summer Concert Series, Fox's "Don't Forget the Lyrics," where they won an incredible half a million dollars all devoted to charity, A&E's Private Sessions, The Wendy Williams Show, Live With Regis and Kelly, The View and most recently on A&E's Biography, with a full hour chronicling their rise to stardom.
In A&E's Biography, producer Randy Jackson stated, "I think they are one of the best groups ever, in the history of singing. True artists always have staying power. They'll be around forever." Of their new album, Boyz II Men each comment: "We remember how these songs made us feel when we first heard them, and we wanted to relive that experience by rerecording them now in our own way," says Shawn. Adds Nate, "We have very visual memories of some of these songs growing up so the process of making this record felt totally natural." Wanya says, "We love the lyrics to all of the tracks, as they've each had a huge emotional impact on so many people, including us."
Credits to: http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/12/05/boyz_ii_men_capture_hearts_with_love_out
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