Expert: Bong Santos - 11/30/2006

Question
Hi Bong,

I am stuck and need an answer please.

There was a group from the 1980's and it contained 3 young black guys and I believe they were British? It wasnt the Musical Youth I know that. I think it featured quite recently on a TV show for one hit wonders of somekind? I know that recently there famous song was released as a house tune as well. Can you give me the names of some 'boy bands' that contained young black men from the 1980's? I cannot think of there name or the name of the song that was very popular

Any help would be appreciated

Many thanks

Kevin

Answer
Dear Kevin,

That was hard, man. I was hoping you could give me the name of the reality show they were in. The first thing that came to my mind was HIT ME ONE MORE TIME but looking at the list of contestants from both the US and UK version, only CAMEO can be considered a (boy?) band with 3 black members. They sang their big hit WORD UP! last year. I could be wrong so I'll just give you a list of probable answers.

THE BOYS
SOUL II SOUL
THE FORCE M.D.'S
FIVE STAR
KOOL & THE GANG
RUN-D.M.C.
SUGARHILL GANG
CAMEO
NWA
NEW EDITION
BOYZ II MEN
3T (made up of Michael Jackson's 3 nephews, TITO JACKSON's sons)
ALL-4-ONE
AZ YET
B2K
HI-FIVE
KRIS KROSS
NAUGHTY BY NATURE
PORTRAIT
SHAI
SILK

Maraming salamat po!

BONG M. SANTOS
Manila, Philippines