T-Spoon
| T-Spoon | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Genres | Eurodance |
| Years active | 1991–present |
| Members | Dominic Sas(co-producer) Shamrock (Shalamon Baskin) Linda Estelle Remy de Groot Serge Ramaekers(co-producer) |
| Past members | Greg Dillard Ingrid Simons King Lover (Humprey Mijland) |
T-Spoon is a Dutch Eurodance group. They were founded in 1991 by Shalamon Baskin and Remy de Groot (aka Prince Peration) and were offered a recording contract by No More Music.
It all started out in 1993 with their first single No Time 2 Waste, which wasted no time in cracking the top 10 in Europe (single Spank, released in 1991 under the same project name, is probably from a different project).
During the following years they scored a string of hits, which brought them success in countries like the UK, Australia, Canada, Israel, Ireland, Scandinavia, South-America and of course their homecountry, the Netherlands. Songs like A Part Of My Life, Where R U Now, Take Me 2 The Limit and of course Sex on the Beach kept people moving all over the world. Releasing 4 full album CDs, incl. a remix CD and a hitsingle collection, they proved to be one of the most versatile dance acts to have ever existed. They produced some powerful eurodance tracks, but also groovy R&B songs, upbeat happy hardcore tunes and even euroreggae and eurodisco tracks.
Behind T-Spoon stands Prince Peration (Dutch Remy de Groot), the founder and one of the driving forces behind T-Spoon. The co-producers were Dominic Sas and Serge Ramaekers (famous for their projects Confetti's and Cartouche). On stage T-Spoon consisted of 4 people : a female vocalist (Ingrid Simons, Jean Shy, Blonde, then Linda Estelle) and a male rapper (Shamrock, replaced in 1998 by Greg Dillard, then in 2001 by King Lover), and the two dancers Regilio and Anatevka Bos.
Legend says that Shamrock said while stirring a cup of tea "I'd rather have a gold record than a gold tea spoon any day". "That's it" exclaimed Prince Peration, "That's the name", and so the name T-Spoon was born. More recently, Remy de Groot, explained that the name actually came from a western TV show in which the sheriff was called Teaspoon.
In 1994 the American jazz/blues vocalist Jean Shy was the featured singer for the Dutch formation.
In 1996, singer Linda Estelle joined the group, which changed the bands direction into the then-popular happy hardcore-genre. In 1997, they became famous with the summer hit "Sex on the Beach", which made the charts in The Netherlands as well as Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Scandinavia and the United Kingdom. The song was first released in Ireland following its success in Europe. There it became one of the biggest hits of the year and peaked at number 2 in the Irish charts. Such was the success in Ireland that the song was released in the United Kingdom at the end of the summer and replicated the success in Ireland, also reaching number 2 in the UK charts. It is also frequently mistaken to be created by Vengaboys.
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