![]() The foursome originally formed as Take One in 1985, but changed to CMB to avoid an identity crisis with an a cappella band named Take 6, Calderon said. Thornton, who was a year older than his three bandmates in the class of 1988, said the group coined their music hip-hop doo-wop. ![]() The band formed during the new jack swing genre popularized by Bobby Brown, Guy and Keith Sweat. We knew how to blend our voices well, so it really caught on. ∺ lot of people in the 1980s werent really hip to the doo-wop sound, so it was sort of a new thing, he said. The boys thought they could one-up the success of New Edition and New Kids on the Block, Calderon said, so they perfected performing a then-popular Levis commercial. He just completely blew me away, said Calderon, who joined the choir that included bass vocalist Thornton. Calderon had heard about Abrams vocal prowess in Northwest Classens Cry-Slurs choir and challenged him. PRIMARY COLOR It started with a sing-off. But whenever you explode all of a sudden like that, and the next seven years are slowing going back in the other direction, that takes its toll. Like anything else in life, when youre moving up and youre moving forward, everything is good because its relative to where you were before. Its a real challenge to maintain that kind of thing. I think the only reason we didnt make it long-term was because we kind of imploded from the inside, said Watters, now a successful record producer married to former ∺merican Idol finalist Tamyra Gray. If you dismiss the Grammy-nominated act as another pop-culture cast-off, consider this: The unforgettable single lampooned by ∻eavis and Butt-head lives on, recently appearing in the Adam Sandler film You Dont Mess with the Zohan. And Bryan Abrams mug makes the most post-Badd headlines, although theyre from the police blotter. ![]() Kevin Thornton, the Milli Vanilli lookalike, battled sex addiction and suicidal thoughts before Jesus told him to quit the group. Sam Watters, dogged by Kenny G comparisons, is haunted by the sax-y similarity to this day. Thrust into the pop-culture spotlight, the quartets members each had a celebrity lookalike: Mark Calderon, who serenaded the ∻everly Hills, 90210 crew at the Peach Pit, was a dead ringer for ex-Wham! singer George Michael. This is that group with George Michael and Kenny G and Snow, Butt-head said. 1 singles, a triple-platinum debut album and nine Top 40 hits before disbanding in 1998. Wearing brightly colored suits and gyrating to rehearsed choreography, the pop supernova exploded with two follow-up No. What do I do next?'” By the time he was finished apologizing to and thanking the crowd, Abrams had left the building and when Calderon walked backstage he realized his neck and back were really sore.The MTV cartoon character was commenting on Color Me Badd, a band from Oklahoma Citys Northwest Classen High School hitting it big with I Wanna Sex You Up in 1991. I’m thinking, ‘Oh my gosh, what just happened?’ And I go into shock because I’m in front of all these people and this just happened. After an hour, just as he was finishing “I Wanna Sex You Up” and saying his goodbyes to the crowd, unbeknownst to him, Abrams came back on stage and “all of a sudden he shoves me and blindsides me and I’m on the ground. “This was a first.” Calderon says there have been times when Abrams has not shown up for a gig or decided to leave, forcing him to do a show solo, as well as times when he says Abrams has performed while intoxicated.īy the third song, Calderon, 47, realized he’d probably have to do the whole gig by himself with just the dancers. ![]() “He has never come on stage and left and then never came back,” says Calderon. But once he realized Abrams was gone, he figured it was to get a towel or speak to the sound engineer. He didn’t notice, however, that his partner had walked off the stage. The duo hit the stage for the first song, “All 4 Love,” and Calderon noticed that Abrams was flubbing the lyrics, which concerned him. “The hotel security grabbed us from our rooms and walked us to the stage and I saw Bryan was intoxicated pretty heavy,” Calderon says. “I was really concerned about what was going to happen…we got backstage and I asked him, ‘Are you going to be okay? I’m really concerned about you.’ He said, ‘We’re gonna kill it tonight!’ And I thought, ‘Oh, no.'”
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