They're the people who inspired us when we were growing up, people like Aretha Franklin, James Brown.
In a 1993 interview for The New York Times, Wiggins elaborated on their direction for the album, stating "We're paying homage to a lot of older artists who paved the way for us artists like the Temptations, Sly and the Family Stone, Earth, Wind and Fire. Having fulfilled their creative intentions with The Revival, Tony! Toni! Toné! wanted to pay homage to their musical influences with Sons of Soul. We're just down-to-earth, funky, like-to-play guys." Before considering a follow-up album, the band recorded several songs for film soundtracks, including "Me and You" for Boyz n the Hood (1991), "House Party (I Don't Know What You Come to Do)" for House Party 2 (1991), and "Waiting on You" for Poetic Justice (1993). In an interview for People magazine, lead singer and bassist Raphael Wiggins expressed his dissatisfaction with the music industry, saying that "every record company wants to get a group and put 'em in a Benz with a car phone and a beeper, show them dressing in three different outfits, put them in a video shot on a beach with lots of swinging bikinis. However, they became ambivalent about their newfound mainstream success and their music being labeled "retro" by critics. The Revival broadened the group's exposure to fans beyond their initial R&B audience. In late 1990, the album's fourth single "It Never Rains (In Southern California)" became a number-one R&B hit and also peaked at number 34 on the Hot 100. The single topped the R&B chart for two weeks and reached number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 in the fall of 1990, going on to sell over one million copies. The album's second single "Feels Good" was released on June 19 and certified gold on November 13 after it had shipped 500,000 copies. "Feels Good" was the group's first single to breach the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 and went gold. The album spawned several #1 R&B hits with " It Never Rains (In Southern California)", " Feels Good", " The Blues", and " Whatever You Want" all topping the R&B charts. The group's second album The Revival was released in 1990 and reached platinum status. Released on May 8, 1990, by Wing Records, The Revival charted for 64 weeks on the Billboard Top Pop Albums, peaking at number 34 on the chart. Inspired by live instrumentation, turntablism, and classic soul music, Tony! Toni! Toné! recorded and produced their second album, The Revival, mostly themselves and released it in 1990 to commercial success. As of August 1993, it has sold over 700,000 copies in the US. On December 5, 1989, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for shipments of 500,000 copies in the United States.
It charted for 44 weeks on the Billboard Top Pop Albums, peaking at number 69, and produced four singles, including the R&B hit " Little Walter". The next three singles, " Born Not to Know", "Baby Doll" and "For the Love of You" were all Top 10 R&B singles. The first of these, " Little Walter" went to #1 on the R&B charts. The album went gold and had several hit singles. Their first album, Who?, produced and co-written by Denzil Foster and Thomas McElroy, was released in 1988. Īmir Khalil of Tony! Toni! Toné! performing in Louisville, Kentucky, 2012 1988–1992: Who? and The Revival
Tony! Toni! Toné! disbanded after the release of their fourth album House of Music (1996), which critics cite as their best work. Īfter their debut album Who? in 1988 followed by The Revival in 1990, the group achieved their greatest commercial success with the double platinum certified Sons of Soul in 1993. Originally, the band went by "Tony, Toni, Toné" as a joke, until they realized it "had a nice ring to it". Additional original founders are Choreographer and Bassist, Elijah "EB" Baker Songwriter, Producer and Keyboardist Antron "Ice Cream" Haile and Producer and Jazz Guitarist John "Jubu" Smith. During the band's heyday, it was composed of D'wayne Wiggins on lead vocals and guitar, his brother Raphael Saadiq (born Charles Ray Wiggins) on lead vocals and bass, and their cousin Timothy Christian Riley on drums and keyboards. Tony! Toni! Toné! was an American soul/ R&B group from Oakland, California, popular during the late 1980s and early to mid-1990s.
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