Black Eyed Peas

New lyrics gave the tune a basketball theme, and the spot featured Carlos Santana. The revised song had great success as a single, especially popular on the iTunes music download service. Whiteman has recorded as a solo artist, and was previously in the bands Que Vida and Bourbon Tabernacle Choir. The BEP's song "Let's Get Retarded" was restyled as "Let's Get it Started" for an NBA finals worldwide commerical. Drew and Spearin were previously in the band KC Accidental. The Tagalog lyrics and backing melody were based on the the song Balita, an original composition of the 1970s Filipino folk rock group Asin. Canning was previously in the bands hHead and By Divine Right. The Apl Song, with the chorus written in Tagalog, from their album Elephunk, tells the story of Apl.de.ap. Apostle of Hustle, Junior Blue and Valley of the Giants are all BSS-style collaborative bands that were formed after You Forgot It in People was recorded and released.

During Black Eyed Peas' concert tour in Asia in 2004, Apl.de.ap's life story was featured in a weekly Filipino TV drama special called Maalaala Mo Kaya (Will You Remember), which explained his childhood with his poor family in Pampanga, Philippines, before sadly parting with them to live a better life in the US at the age of 14. Leslie Feist is also a solo artist, although her albums are credited simply to Feist. The current line-up of the Black Eyed Peas as of 2004 (not including supporting band members) is: will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Taboo, and newcomer Fergie­. Collett performs as a solo artist under his own name. The third single from the album, "Hey Mama" hit the Top 10 in the UK, Germany and several other European countries, and reached the Top 30 of the US Hot 100. Controversially, a reference to "dropping bombs like we in the Middle East" was edited out of some versions of "Hey Mama". These include:. Indeed the band have enjoyed greater mainstream success in Europe than in the US with "Elephunk" going Top 10, gold and (sometimes multi-)platinum in the UK, Germany and many other European markets, yet ultimately failing to break the US Top 10, although it did go platinum there. Most of the musicians who have worked with Broken Social Scene are members of other bands as well.

The album subsequently spawned "Shut Up", which failed in the US but peaked at UK #2 (despite being referred to by one reviewer as "The single most vacuous, pointless, vile and generally loathsome song in a generation") and topped the charts in many other European countries including France and Germany.
2004. From "Elephunk" came the anti-war anthem "Where Is The Love?", which became their first major hit, peaking at #8 on the US Hot 100, but topping the charts practically everywhere else, including six weeks at #1 in the UK where it became the biggest-selling single of 2003. 2003. She is the replacement of background singer Kim Hill who departed the band during 2000. A new album, tentatively titled Windsurfing Nation, is due for release in April, 2005. Their breakthrough album Elephunk was released in 2003, featuring a new female vocalist, called Fergie, born as Stacy Ferguson who used to be in a teen pop band named Wild Orchid. In 2003, the B-sides and remix collection Bee Hives was released.

Their other album is 2000's Bridging the Gap (2000 in music). Amy Millan and Gentleman Reg also joined for some shows. After Eazy-E died of AIDS in 1995 (see 1995 in music), Atban Klann reformed as the Black Eyed Peas and released a debut, Behind the Front (1998, 1998 in music) that earned the group (and their accompanying live band) critical acclaim. On the supporting tour, the band consisted of Drew, Canning, Peroff, Whiteman and Jason Collett, along with whoever else was available to attend any individual show. The group is composed of Will.i.am, Apl.de.ap, Taboo, and Fergie. The album also included musical contributions by Priddle, Jessica Moss, Brodie West, Susannah Brady and Ohad Benchetrit, but these were credited as supporting musicians rather than band members. As Atban Klann, they signed to Ruthless Records (run by Eazy-E), but their album was never released because the positive and peaceful lyrics were too unusual for Ruthless. More noteably it won the Alternative Album of the Year Juno Award in 2003.

The Black Eyed Peas are an American hip hop crew from Los Angeles, who have lately enjoyed massive international pop success. This album, an eclectic, restlessly creative collection of experimental yet accessible pop songs, became the band's critical and commercial breakthrough -- it was greeted with ecstatic reviews, and landed on many music critics' year-end Best-Of lists. 2004 "Let's Get It Started" #21 US, #11 UK. All of the later guest musicians joined with Drew, Canning, Peroff and Spearin to record the band's second album, You Forgot It in People, in 2002 on the label Arts & Crafts. 2004 "Hey Mama" #23 US, #6 UK. Over time, the band also came to include contributions from James Shaw, Evan Cranley, Justin Peroff and John Crossingham. 2003 "Shut Up" #2 UK. As a result, they brought in a number of friends from the Toronto indie scene -- Andrew Whiteman, Emily Haines and Leslie Feist -- to flesh out their live show with lyrics and vocals.

Justin Timberlake) #8 US, #1 UK. However, when they played shows to support the album, Drew and Canning found it difficult to put together an entertaining show based on Feel Good Lost, which was an almost entirely instrumental album. 2003 "Where is the Love" (feat. This duo recorded and released the band's post rock debut album, Feel Good Lost, in 2001, with contributions by Justin Peroff, Charles Spearin and Bill Priddle. Macy Gray) #31 UK. The band's core members are Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. 2001 "Request + Line" (feat. Broken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock supergroup formed in 1999 (see 1999 in music) in Toronto, Ontario.

2005 "Monkey Business"; due for release on April 4th. Broken Social Scene (http://www.arts-crafts.ca/bss/index2.html). 2003 "Elephunk"; #14 US, #3 UK. Valley of the Giants - Brendan Canning and Charles Spearin. 2000 "Bridging the Gap"; #67 US. Treble Charger - Bill Priddle. 1998 "Behind the Front"; #129 US. Stars - Evan Cranley and Amy Millan.

Raising the Fawn - John Crossingham. Metric - James Shaw and Emily Haines. Junior Blue - Justin Peroff and Kevin Drew. Do Make Say Think - Charles Spearin and Ohad Benchetrit.

Feist - Leslie Feist. Apostle of Hustle - Andrew Whiteman. Stars and Sons - Christopher Mills, Broken Social Scene - Nomination: Video of the Year Juno Award. You Forgot It in People - Winner: Alternative Album of the Year Juno Award.