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Colonel Abrams

Colonel Abrams is a house and urban musician who was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Colonel Abrams is his actual name, not a stage name.

Career

In 1985 he signed to Steven Machat"s Label/Production company, AMI. Machat, who was working with the New Zealand producer Richard Burgess and hired him against conventional wisdom to produce Colonel Abrams for his company the album Colonel Abrams. Machat then talked MCA into signing the Colonel recordings to have them released throughout the world. AMI also at this time had Ready for the World and the New Edition/Bobby Brown with MCA. This collaboration with the British producer Richard James Burgess produced the hits "Trapped", "I'm Not Gonna Let You" and urban contemporary ballad "Table for Two".

"Trapped" reached the top five and went gold in the UK Singles Chart and topped the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1985, followed by the entire Colonel Abrams album, which spent two weeks at number one the following year. It was estimated by the Phonographic Association that "Trapped" sold over 5 million copies worldwide by spring 1987. "Trapped" was copied by the producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman in London, U.K, and gave the U.K. singer Rick Astley a number one track with "Never Gonna Give You Up" which used an identical bassline to "Trapped."

"I'm Not Gonna Let You" also spent a week at number one in 1986. The album peaked at number 75 on the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart and number 13 on the U.S. Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. His second album, 1987's You and Me Equals Us saw similar success.

Abrams also enjoyed a string of entries on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart in the 1980s and 1990s, including four entries that hit number one. In 1987 he had his fourth number-one U.S. dance hit with "How Soon We Forget."

An electronic remix of "Trapped" was later released in 1995 by Boards of Canada under the pseudonym Hell Interface. A new version of "Trapped" ("Trapped 2006") was released in the UK.

On January 9, 2007, Colonel Abrams released the single "Just When You Thought." It became the third single released on his own record label, Colonel Records, the others being "Heartbreaker" and "Let Us All Be Friends". On April 2, 2007, Colonel also released a dance smash called "Never Be". In 2007, Abrams released "Just Like Mathematics" and "True Stories." Even though all of Abrams' recent singles output has become popular, none seem to have charted on the Billboard charts such as the Hot Dance Singles Sales, Hot Dance Airplay and Hot Dance Club Play charts. Colonel Abrams' forthcoming album, entitled Tribute to My Brother will be released in either late 2009 or early 2010." during the Spring. June 2008 saw the release of his single, "Only A Few." The Colonel continues to consolidate record sales due to a strong underground cult following.On December 12, 2009, Colonel performed at the o2 arena in London,Uk,and gave an eneregetic performance.

Discography

Albums

Singles

  • 1984: "Music Is The Answer" (#11 U.S. Dance)
  • 1985: "The Truth" (#53 UK, #78 R&B)
  • 1985: "Trapped" (#3 UK, #1 U.S. Dance, #20 U.S. R&B)
  • 1985: "Over and Over" (#45 U.S. Dance, #68 U.S. R&B)
  • 1986: "I'm Not Gonna Let You" (#24 UK, #1 U.S. Dance, #7 U.S. R&B)
  • 1986: "Speculation" (#15 U.S. Dance)
  • 1987: "How Soon We Forget" (#75 UK, #1 U.S. Dance, #6 U.S. R&B)
  • 1987: "Nameless" (#54 U.S. R&B)
  • 1987: "Soon You'll Be Gone"
  • 1990: "Bad Timing"
  • 1991: "I'm Not Gonna Let You (1991)"
  • 1991: "You Don't Know (Somebody Tell Me)" (#58 U.S. R&B)
  • 1992: "When Somebody Loves Somebody" (#70 U.S. R&B)
  • 1992: "Never Be Another One" (#22 U.S. Dance)
  • 1993: "I'm Caught Up"
  • 1993: "As Quiet as It's Kept"
  • 1994: "So Confused" (#15 U.S. Dance)
  • 1994: "So Proud"
  • 1995: "Victim of Loving You"
  • 1996: "Heartbreaker"
  • 1996: "99½"
  • 1996: "As I Take You Back"
  • 1996/7: "Get With You"
  • 1997: "Make a Difference"
  • 1997: "Trapped '97"
  • 2000: "Music Is My Life"
  • 2001: "Don't Give Me a Love That I Can't Use"
  • 2002: "Hurt My Feelings"
  • 2002: "Could It Be"
  • "Release the Tension"
  • "Leave the Message Behind the Door"
  • "House of Stone"
  • "Color the Roads"
  • "Let Us All Be Friends"
  • "Nothing Yet"
  • "In the Air"
  • "Do You Know What I Mean"
  • "I'll Be Right There"
  • "Where Do We Go From Here?" (duet with Ultra Nate)
  • "Should Be Dancin'"
  • "Love on a Cutting Edge"
  • "Who Do You Love?"
  • "Feel Free"
  • "Love Is What We Need"
  • "Sweet Love"
  • "Celebrate"
  • "Just When You Thought"
  • "Never Be"
  • "True Stories"
  • "Heartbreaker"
  • "Only A Few"
  • "Just Like Mathematics"

See also

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