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In 2004, Simmons sold Phat Farm and Baby Phat to the Kellwood Company for $140 million. [24] In the same year, Simmons formed Russell Simmons Music Group, or RSMG, a record label founded as a joint venture with Universal Music's Island Def Jam Music Group. [25] Tony Austin was the label's president. [26] [27]
The company was known for using offbeat campaigns, and agreed to feature the Fat Boys in a commercial for the watches on MTV. The video "Brrr, Swatch ’Em!" was aired in December 1984. [17] Swatch again featured The Fat Boys in a 1985 Christmas advertisement created by former MTV creative heads Alan Goodman and Fred Seibert. This commercial ...
Phat Farm was established in 1992 by Russell Simmons, co-founder of Def Jam Recordings. [1] The brand was initially a men's clothing line and sold clothing items such as T-shirts, jeans, and jackets. The brand's early success was attributed to its association with hip-hop culture, which was growing in popularity at the time. [ 3 ]
His first solo single, "Long After I'm Gone," was released to country radio on August 3, 2009, from the album The Quiet Times of a Rock and Roll Farm Boy. In 2010, his third solo album, Big Kenny's Love Everybody Traveling Musical Medicine Show Mix Tape, Vol. 1, was released but did not produce any singles.
The band's faux 'rural bumpkin' imagery and self-deprecating humour was an important part of their appeal, but led to some scathing reviews in the metropolitan music press. The band played many gigs with The Higsons and for a while was identified as one of the hubs of the 1980s Norwich scene , an eclectic collection of post-punk acts that fused ...
Song: “Man in the Mirror” by Michael Jackson. Michael said: “You have the ability at 14 years old to execute. The way you sang the song, the way you chose the notes, I just kept getting up ...
Gary William Brolsma (born January 14, 1986) [21] is an American vlogger and musician who gained worldwide attention after posting the Numa Numa Dance video in 2004. He made appearances on ABC's Good Morning America, NBC's The Tonight Show and VH1's Best Week Ever.
The Farmer Boys were an American country music duo consisting of Bobby Adamson (born September 20, 1933) and Woodie Wayne Murray (September 29, 1933 – August 14, 2002). [1] Adamson and Murray were both natives of Arkansas who met in California when they sang a song together around a jukebox. In 1952 they started working together, singing at ...