All-4-One

This article is about the R&B group. For their debut album, see All-4-One (album). For other uses, see All for One (disambiguation).

All-4-One
All-4-One performing at a concert.
Background information
Origin	Glendale, California, USA
Genres	R&B, pop
Years active	1993–present
Labels	Atlantic Records Discretion Records AMC EMI America Records Peak Records
Members
Jamie Jones Delious Kennedy Alfred Nevarez Tony Borowiak

All-4-One is a male R&B/pop group best known for their cover hit single "I Swear" from their self-titled 1994 debut album. The group comprises Jamie Jones, Delious Kennedy, Alfred Nevarez, and Tony Borowiak, all from the Antelope Valley and Mojave, California areas, but are based in the Los Angeles area. The group has sold 22 million records worldwide.

History

Dubbed the "Dukes of R&B" by several internet sources, All-4-One's hit "I Swear" won a Grammy Award in 1995 for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and enjoyed an eleven-week run at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and a seven-week run at #2 in the UK. It has been named by ASCAP as one of the greatest love songs of the 20th Century. It was also nominated for Song Of The Year, as was the single Top 5 smash hit "I Can Love You Like That." The group was popular before the #1 success of "I Swear," as their previous single "So Much in Love" (originally a #1 US hit for The Tymes in 1963) had reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 earlier in the year. Other hits include "She's Got Skillz", "These Arms", "Beautiful as U", "I Will Be Right Here" and "Someday" (the title single from the Disney animated feature The Hunchback of Notre Dame).

A rift between their independent label, Blitzz Records, and their major label, Atlantic Records, led to the group leaving Atlantic Records as well as Blitzz Records after the release of the album On and On in 1999. The shift in labels left the group in limbo for a few years as they contemplated their next move. In 2001, the follow-up album, A41, was released on AMC Records yielding, "Beautiful As U," a Top 20 hit on the Radio & Records Adult Contemporary chart. The group's 2004 album, Split Personality, was given an Asia-only release, and subsequently gave them Asian hits with "Someone Who Lives in Your Heart & "I Just Wanna Be Your Everything." For much of the 2000s All-4-One has spent their time touring South East Asia, in cities such as Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Seoul, Bangkok, Shanghai, Sydney and Perth Australia.

Awards

Grammy Awards

Year	Category	Song/Album	Genre	Result
1995	Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal	I Swear	Pop	Winner
1995	Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal	I Can Love You Like That	Pop	Nominated
1995	Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal	I'm Your Man	R&B	Nominated

American Music Awards

Year	Category	Song/Album	Genre	Result
1995	Favorite New Artist Soul/Rhythm and Blues	So Much in Love	R&B	Winner
1995	Favorite Soul/R&B Single	I Swear	R&B	Nominated
1995	Favorite Pop/Rock New Artist	All-4-One		Nominated

Other awards

• 1994 - Nominated for a Billboard Award for Song of the Year for "I Swear"
• 1994 - Coca-Cola Australian Music Awards - Most Popular
• 1994 - Golden Europa - Favorite New International Act
• 1994 - Biggest-Selling Single in the Guinness Book of World Records for "I Swear"
• 1994 - International Song for "I Swear"
• 1995 - Nominated for the Tina Turner Music Prize
• 1995 - Singapore Perfect 10 Music Awards - Favorite New Act
• 1996 - Sang National Anthem, Game 3 of the 1996 World Series at Atlanta Fulton County Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia

Discography

Main article: All-4-One discography

Studio albums

• All-4-One (1994)
• And the Music Speaks (1995)
• On and On (1999)
• A41 (2002)
• Split Personality (2004)
• No Regrets (2009)

External links

• All-4-One Interview
• Official site
• Official Jamie Jones site
• Delious Kennedy online Celebrity Magazine
• Delious' Photography page
• SoulTracks profile of All-4-One