Jamiroquai

   
Artist: Jamiroquai

   Genre(s): 
Other
   R&B: Soul
   disco
   Dance
   funk
   Pop: Pop-Rock
   Rock: Pop-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 High Times: Singles 1992-2006

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 19


   
 Feels Just Like It Should

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 3


   
 Argentina

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 7


   
 Dynamite

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 12


   
 Love Foolosophy

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 4


   
 Different Sounds - The Remixes

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 15


   
 You Give Me Something

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 4


   
 Little L

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 4


   
 A Funk Odyssey

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 11


   
 Synkronized

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 11


   
 Canned Heat

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 2


   
 Travelling Without Moving

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 13


   
 Light Years

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 5


   
 Cosmic Girl

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 5


   
 The Return of the Space Cowboy

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 11


   
 Emergency On Planet Earth

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Very Best Of CD2 (1999-2005)

   Year:    
Tracks: 17


   
 The Very Best Of CD1 (1993-1999)

   Year:    
Tracks: 17

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Although some opt to authorize off Jamiroquai as a Stevie Wonder-clone, the lot has amassed a unfluctuating flow of hits in its native U.K. and has experient chart success in simply just about every early area of the globe with an irresistible blending of firm rhythms and '70s-era soul/funk. The lot has gone though several batting order changes during their career, but through it all their loss leader has remained singer/songwriter Jason Kay (aka J.K.). Born on December 30, 1969, in Stretford, Manchester, Kay's mother, Karen, was a jazz isaac Merrit Singer world Health Organization on a regular basis performed at nightclubs, and in the '70s had her own TV show. After leaving domicile at the age of 15, Kay constitute himself homeless and in fuss with the law (by committing piffling crimes to contract by). After a near-death experience (where he was attacked and stabbed) and organism arrested for a crime he did non commit, Kay decided to reelect base, where he chose to follow up on a legitimate career all over crime: music. Kay didn't birth a band to back up his compositions, but he promptly came up with his future project's diagnose, Jamiroquai, a name that combined the name of a Native American federation of tribes (the Iroquois) along with the music-based word of honor, jam.


Kay's place demos caught the attention of the record label Acid Jazz, which issued Jamiroquai's debut single "When You Gonna Learn?" in late 1992. With Kay enlisting the help oneself of others (Jamiroquai's best-known lineup included drummer Derrick McKenzie, keyboard player Toby Smith, bassist Stuart Zender, and vibraphonist Wallis Buchanan), the single was a achiever and was soon followed by a long-term and lucrative recording abbreviate with Sony. Jamiroquai's uncut debut, Emergency on Planet Earth, followed in 1993 and became a major collide with in their native England (peaking at number one on the charts), spawning such Top Ten hit singles as "As well Young to Die" and "Blow Your Mind." The band's second release, The Return of the Space Cowboy in 1995, managed to steer Jamiroquai clear of the sophomore hex that affects so many industrious bands by out-selling its predecessor in Europe and was a hefty collide with in Japan, as good.


With most of the world saltation to Jamiroquai's get, America was next in air for the band's third base cause, 1996's Travel Without Moving. The album spawned the world-wide hit "Virtual Insanity," for which an award-winning television was filmed and helped the album attain platinum status in the States by the year's closing (as well as a highlighted performance at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards). Despite achieving breakthrough achiever, bassist Zender opted to leave behind the chemical group during roger Sessions for its followup, which resulted in Kay scratching about an entire album's worth of new tracks in order to originate from scratch with a new bassist (the one-armed bandit would eventually go to neophyte Nick Fyffe). During the downtime, Jamiroquai contributed a brand-new track, "Deeper Underground," to the soundtrack for the 1998 motion picture Godzilla.


Simply the long wait betwixt albums seemed to kill Jamiroquai's momentum in the U.S., where a fourth passing overall, 1999's Synkronized, was largely ignored (yet back base and crosswise the earth, it was some other major commercial-grade success). Subsequently, it appeared as though the legal age of Jamiroquai's U.S. media attention focused on non-music related events, such as the band turning mastered a million-dollar offer to dally at a concert on New Year's Eve 1999, and when Kay was accused of assaulting a tabloid photographer (with the charges afterwards organism dropped). It didn't take Jamiroquai as long the future fourth dimension about to proceeds some other album, with A Funk Odyssey striking the racks two days afterwards in 2001. Kay also helmed a volume in the mix-album serial Late Night Tales. From there, Jamiroquai exhausted the future deuce old age gather material for a one-sixth studio apartment album. Dynamite, which was last released in 2005, was written and recorded in Spain, Italy, Costa Rica, Scotland, New York, Los Angeles and Jamiroquai's possess Buckinghamshire studio.