C+C Music Factory

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C+C Music Factory
Also known as Clivillés + Cole, MVP
Genre(s) Dance-pop
Members
Robert Clivillés
David Cole
Former members
Zelma Davis
Martha Wash
Freedom Williams
Deborah Cooper
Trilogy
Paul Pesco
Q-Unique

C+C Music Factory was a dance music production group (lead by Robert Clivillés and David Cole) distinguished for having seven #1 Dance/Club Play hits in the early to mid 1990s, as well as several pop crossover hits, one of which "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" reached #1 on Billboards Hot 100 Singles & R&B Singles charts. The group also released singles and albums under alternate names (a.o. Clivillés + Cole), the last offspring was called MVP. Robert Clivillés and David Cole also produced various hits for other artists: Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, Deborah Cooper and others

C+C Music Factory earned a total of 35 music industry awards worldwide, including five Billboard Awards, five American Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards and one Grammy nomination (for Best New Artist).

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[edit] Members

C+C Music Factory primarily consisted of two record producers and vocalists varied by the project:

Main Members:

Puerto Rican Robert Manuel Clivillés was born on 30 August, 1964, in New York.[1]

African American David Cole was born as David B. Cole on 3 June, 1962, in Johnson City, Tennessee; and died 24 January, 1995.

Supporting Members:

Among the guest vocalists include rap outfit Trilogy, Paul Pesco, Rapper Q-Unique.

[edit] Chart History

In 1990, their first album Gonna Make You Sweat peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200 Album Sales chart, #11 R&B Albums, and went 5x Platinum. In 1994, their follow up album, Anything Goes peaked at #106 on the Billboard 200, and #39 on the R&B Albums.

They had a large number of club hits, several of which also crossed over to become massive pop hits.

All four singles from their debut album reached #1 on Billboard's Dance/Club Play chart, and all four were also crossover Pop and R&B hits. The first single "Gonna Make You Sweat" reached #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 and R&B Singles charts. The follow up single "Here We Go, Let's Rock & Roll" reached #3 Hot 100, and #7 R&B Singles. Their third single "Things That Make You Go Hmmm" also reached #4 Hot 100, and #31 R&B Singles. The fourth and final single from their debut album "Just A Touch Of Love", featured in the movie Sister Act, reached #50 Hot 100, and #83 R&B Singles.

In 1992, they had another #1 Dance/Club play hit with the song "Keep It Comin'" (Dance Till You Can't Dance No More); A variation with Rapper Q-Unique was recorded for the soundtrack and opening cheerleading routine from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Both versions of the song feature lead vocals by Deborah Cooper. The Dance version reached #83 on the Hot 100.

Their second album, Anything Goes!, had one single, "Do You Wanna Get Funky", reaching #1 on the Dance/Club Play carts, #40 on the Hot 100, and #11 R&B Singles. The follow up single, "Take a Toke", reached #23 on the Dance/Club Play and #48 on the R&B charts.

An album was released in Europe in late 1995 by Robert Clivilles with the name C+C Music Factory, which spawned one more US #1 Dance/Club Play hit "I'll Always Be Around". Neither the single nor the album featured former member David Cole, who had died prior to the recording of the material featured on this release.

[edit] 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 groups 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.

A video for "Just a Touch of Love" is featured at the beginning of VHS copies of the movie Sister Act. The video consists of members of the band singing and dancing with nuns in the movie, with scenes from the movie intermingled.

Videos for "Deeper Love" (known as "Pride" for its repeated tag), and the house cover & remix of U2's "Pride" (known as "In The Name of Love" from its tag) featured Deborah Cooper on lead with Robert and David singing background.

[edit] Releases Under Alternate Names

In 1987, they scored a hit in dance clubs with 1987's "Do It Properly", recorded under the name 2 Puerto Ricans, A Black Man And A Dominican. "Do It Properly" was again covered by the original C + C vocalist Deborah Cooper in 2000 for DJ Producers: Peter Rauhofer (world's first Grammy Award winner in the then new dance music category) and Victor Calderone.

The group Seduction was one of Clivilles + Cole's most successful side projects, a vocal trio which included among its members Michelle Visage (now known as a radio personality in the New York City area), Idalis DeLeon (who later became an actress and MTV VJ) and April Harris (who now owns the rights to the band's name and continues to release material). They scored a long string of hits in the early 90's including "Two To Make It Right" (#2 Hot 100, #1 Dance/Club Play), "Heartbeat" (#13 Hot 100, #2 Dance/Club Play, #21 R&B Singles), "You're My One And Only True Love" (#23 Hot 100, #3 Dance/Club Play, #56 R&B Singles), "Could This Be Love" (#11 Hot 100, #38 R&B, #21 Adult Contemporary), "Breakdown" (#82 Hot 100, #4 Dance/Club Play), and "Seduction" (#17 Dance/Club Play).

In 1991, as Clivillés + Cole, (frequently misspelled as 'C & C' its 'C + C', a plus sign, not an ampersand) they released an LP single, "A" side featuring a cover of a rock song by U2 called "Pride" but most often referred to by the tag line "In the Name of Love", but it was the B-side track, "Deeper Love", ironically referred to by its tag "Pride" featuring vocals by Deborah Cooper, a long time Clivilles and Cole vocalist, that proved to be an instant hit. Deborah Cooper performed "Deeper Love" on Saturday Night Live for C+C Music Factory

"Deeper Love" was later covered by Aretha Franklin for the film Sister Act 2; later released as the lead single for her "Greatest Hits (1980-1994)" collection. Franklin actually hired Clivilles & Cole to produce the album version as well as the remixes. Thus, the song was a hit for the duo twice in two different incarnations within a 3 year time span.

In 1992, they recorded a song under the moniker S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M. for the Soundtrack to movie The Bodyguard (starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner). The song, "It's Gonna Be A Lovely Day", was the only song on the soundtrack performed by an artist other than Whitney Houston to be released as a single in the US. They also produced another song on the Bodyguard soundtrack, Whitney Houston's cover of Chaka Khan's I'm Every Woman. (a few years earlier, C + C also produced a Chaka Khan song, "Clouds")

[edit] Production & Remix Work

Remixes produced by C+C Music Factory were credited to 'Clivilles & Cole'. Among the hits remixed by Clivilles & Cole are Natalie Cole's cover of "Pink Cadillac", Taylor Dayne's "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love", "Let The Beat Hit Em" by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, "My Heart Skips A Beat" and "All That Glitters Isn't Gold" by The Cover Girls, "Hide And Seek" by Pajama Party, "Notice Me" by Sandee, and "Black Or White" by Michael Jackson.

Mariah Carey worked extensively with Clivilles & Cole. She hired them to produce songs for her albums, as well as remixes for her singles. Clivilles & Cole produced and co-wrote the album versions and remixes of her hit singles "Emotions" and "Make It Happen". They also produced the remixes of her hit "Anytime You Need A Friend". Additionally, they produced the album tracks "You're So Cold" (from the album "Emotions") and "Now That I Know" (from the album "Music Box"). C+C vocalist Deborah Cooper was a frequent background vocalist on Mariah's singles, CDs and toured internationally with her as a live background vocalist.

New Kids on the Block In the summer of 1991, Cole & Clivilles produced several tracks for there Remix album Entitled No More Games:The Remix Album, among the tracks the hit title produced by Cole & Clivilles "Games" hit #14 on The UK Singles Charts. The Album charted at #10 on the US 200 Album Charts. Selling more than 500,000 albums and going Gold.

[edit] Robert Clivillés Soloworks

Robert Clivillés continued to keep C+C's legacy alive through his own production work.

In 1995, he released a solo single under the name C+C Music Factory, called "I'll Always Be Around" (#1 Billboard Dance/Club Play) , on MCA Records. This was the final #1 Dance/Club Play hit for C+C Music Factory. An album titled "C+C Music Factory" was released by MCA in 1995 in Europe, but it was not released in the US. This was the final studio album of new material to be released under the C+C Music Factory name.

The same year, Columbia records released "Ultimate", a greatest hits collection featuring a mixture of remixes and album versions of C+C Music Factory's Sony Music singles. Two singles were released in conjunction with the album, "I Found Love" (#13 Dance/Club Play) and "Robi Rob's Boriqua Anthem" (#29 Dance/Club Play) featuring El General.

In October 1996, Robert Clivillés released an album of new material under the name Robi-Rob's Clubworld. The first single from the project, "Shake That Body" featured rapper Ya Kid K, formerly of Technotronic. The second single "Reach" was a collaboration with Hex Hector and featured vocals from longtime C+C vocalist Deborah Cooper and was the final recording to have piano tracks recorded by David Cole his C + C partner. Most recently, Clivillés has worked with the group MVP.

[edit] MVP

MVP (also known as 'Most Valuable Playas') is a rap/hip hop music act from New York. The multi-cultural lineup of the group features an R&B singer from the Bronx, Vice Verse (a.k.a Victor Matos), Yonkers bred/Bronx born MC Stagga Lee (a.k.a. Eric Newman) and Robert Clivillés (a.k.a Rob Dinero/Rich Kid).

The group has released two albums, Stagga Lee presents MVP (Casablanca Records 2003) and Hip Hop, Clubs, Girls & Life vol. 1 (Positiva 2006).

The group's Positiva debut single called "Roc Ya Body (Mic Check 1 2)" was a European summer hit, it reached #5 in the UK Charts in July 2005, it also reached #1 in the Official UK Ringtone Chart. "Bounce, Shake, Move, Stop!" was the second single released and became the group's second UK Top 40 single when it entered the UK Singles Chart at #22, its peak.

The group have released no further singles since this release.

[edit] Trivia

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  • 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 who is not nearly so slender. This mirrors the Martha Wash incident (see above).
  • C+C Music Factory (or 'C&C Music Manufacturing Plant', as he calls them) are the favorite band of Borat. He has been seen dancing to their music in his own inimitable style whilst wearing his customary tight-fitting nylon shorts.
  • X-Rated adult versions of C + C Music Factory's popular hits were released by an artist known as 'Sissy Penis Factory'.
  • The band was featured in the 1992 Sega CD release, Power Factory featuring C + C Music Factory. Developed by Digital Pictures and published by Sony Imagesoft, it included real music and full-motion video clips from the group. Players could add in B-roll and effects to alter the finished product. Like other similar games starring Marky Mark, Kriss Kross and INXS, it was poorly received.
  • The first Command & Conquer game, often referred to as C&C, featured an obscure building in a village in some of the European maps that would be revealed to be the "Music Factory" when the player holds his mouse cursor over it.
  • Portions of the song Things That Make You Go Hmmm were used in Tickle's Teaser in the British TV show Brainiac: Science Abuse.
  • A parody of the song Things That Make You Go Hmmm was made for an ad for Papa John's Pizza commercials.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Robert Clivilles Interview from About.com

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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