C+C Music Factory

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C+C Music Factory was a dance music pop group.

Contents

1 Members
2 Biography
3 Videos
4 Productions as C+C Music Factory
5 Other productions
6 Robert Clivillés Soloworks
7 Trivia
8 See also
9 External links

Members

C+C Music Factory consisted of two record producers:

Robert Clivillés – born on 30 August, 1964, in New York.

David Cole – born David B. Cole on 3 June, 1962, in Johnson City, Tennessee; died 24 January, 1995.

plus a number of guest vocalists and rappers.

Biography

They brought a hybrid form of house music to America's heartland, with the chart-topping title track of the album Gonna Make You Sweat (1990), and a follow-up hit "Here We Go" from the same album in 1991.

Clivillés and Cole had recorded dance music under other names, and had showcased different vocalists prior to starting their C+C Music Factory project. Their production work for the group Seduction is the most well-known of these earlier endeavours. The group disbanded when Cole died of spinal meningitis in early 1995.

Videos

The stylish visuals and production for C+C Music Factory's first videos helped to distinguish the group's first releases from previous mainstream dance hits like Technotronic's "Pump Up The Jam".

Controversy erupted when vocalist Zelma Davis, appeared instead of vocalist Martha Wash in the video for the group's first single, "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)." Davis, the vocalist (aside from rapper Freedom Williams) on the next three singles, lip-synched to Wash's vocals in that video. Speculation about bad blood between Wash and the group were laid to rest when Wash and Davis both appeared in the video for 1994's Hot Dance Music/Club Play #1 single, "Do You Wanna Get Funky", on which they both share lead vocals.

Productions as C+C Music Factory

C+C Music Factory's first single was "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)", released on Columbia Records.

Other productions

After scoring a hit in dance clubs with 1987's "Do It Properly" as 2 Puerto Ricans, A Black Man And A Dominican, Clivillés and Cole progressed from upfront dance to nouveau disco, epitomized by Whitney Houston's C+C-helmed "I'm Every Woman".

A long string of productions and remixes for other artists followed, such as Whitney Houston ("I'm Every Woman"), Michael Jackson ("Black Or White"), Arizona feat. Zeitia ("Slide On The Rhythm"), or Jodeci ("Cry For You").

Also a lot of releases followed under the pseudonyms The Brat Pack and The Crew.

In 1991, as Clivillés and Cole they covered a rock song by U2 called Pride in the Name of Love which featured the vocals of Deborah Cooper but it was Cooper's vocals on the track's B-side,"A Deeper Love", that proved to be an instant club anthem. The song was later reworked and rearranged for the film Sister Act II by Aretha Franklin but was not as big a success in the clubs. To this day, the original version is favoured in Club Compliation CDs

Three of their albums: Gonna Make You Sweat (CK47093), Things that Make You Go Hmm (44K73688) & Ultimate (CK67367)

Robert Clivillés Soloworks

Robert Clivillés continued to keep C+C's legacy alive through his own production work. In 1995, he created World Beat Madness, an eclectic array of club music, techno and ERA oriented songs. This work, released in Japan and Mexico, was not a commercial success.

In October 1996, Robert Clivillés continued his club DJ work with a solo house music project, Robirob's Clubworld, which spawned two singles, one of which featured Ya Kid K, formerly of Technotronic. He took a break from music after that . In 2005 he returned to the charts with his new group MVP.

Trivia

C+C Music Factory were spoofed in the mockumentary "Fear of a Black Hat".

In this movie, fictional rapper "Ice Cold" produces a single with the title "Come and pet the P***Y", a house music track containing a powerful female voice which - according to the record company - belongs to a petite Asian dancer, but in reality belongs to an African-American woman which is not nearly as slender. This mirrors the Martha Wash incident (see above).

External links

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