Thursday, October 26, 2006

Sisqo - a mini bio

Sisqo, Woody, Nokio, and Jaz make up Dru Hill, an R&B group from Baltimore, Maryland. Dru Hill named their group after Druid Hill, a neighborhood in Baltimore where they grew up and a park, Druid Hill Park, where there are pick-up basketball games.

They all worked at The Fudgery in Baltimore's Inner Harbor Shops, where they would make fudge and sing a capella. They started out singing mostly gospel, but got a record deal singing R&B. Woody left the group after their second album to go back to gospel. Sisqo struck out on his own and surpassed the group's success with his debut album and the hit single "Thong Song." Sisqo likes to refer to himself as the Dragon after Bruce Lee.

Sisqo's vocal style has a lot in common with that of K-Ci Hailey from the R&B group Jodeci. As such, several people, K-Ci included, have criticized Sisqo as having co-opted K-Ci's singing style wholesale, while Sisqo himself has gone on record many times naming K-Ci as his primary influence.

Albums
1999 - Unleash the Dragon
2001 - Return of Dragon
2006 - The Best Of Sisqo 20th Century Masters The Millennium Collection

DVDs
2000 - Sisqo: The Thong Song Uncensored
2001 - Sisqo: 24 Hours with Sisqo
2005 - Dru Hill Hits: The Videos

Films/Tv
2000 - Sisqo's Shakedown
2001 - Get Over It!
2002 - Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
2002 - Snow Dogs
2003 - Pieces of April
2006 - Surf School

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