Monkey Business (band)

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Monkey Business is a Czech funk band. It is next of projects of its leader Roman Holý.

1 History
2 Members
3 Cooperation
4 Discography
- 4.1 LP
- 4.2 DVD
5 Awards
6 External links

[edit] History

Group teamed up in the beginning of 1999. Singer Matěj Ruppert came from group Leguar GR, Oldřich Krejčoves played in Pan Pot, Pavel Mrázek and Martin Houdek came from Dorota B.B. and Tonya Graves came from dance oriented Liquid Harmony. In 2000 debut record Why Be In If You Could Be Out? was released, with highlight songs Party Shit, My Friends and only one czech sung song Hi & Stereo or slow Piece of my life.

[edit] Members

In 2005 :

Matěj Ruppert - voc
Tonya Graves - voc
Oldřich Krejčoves - guit
Ondřej Brousek - kb
Roman Holý - kb, voc
Pavel Mrázek - bg
Martin Houdek - drums

[edit] Cooperation

Percussionist Imran Musa Zangi is uniform guest. There were guested Fred Wesley and David Williams on first record. Other cooperatives on Save The Robots: Robert Howard, Raymond Davis, Clarence Haskins, Dennis Chambers and Fred Wesley.
On Resistance Is Futile is guest list more extended: Hiram Bullock, Iva Bittová , Jiří Stivín, Roman Dragoun, Filip Jelínek, František Kop, Radka Kaspar, Jaroslav Halíř, František Tomšíček, Tomáš Křemenák, Nada Weppereová (zpěv), Petr Dopita, Michael Fišer.
On Kiss Me On My Ego cooperated Hiram Bullock, David Sanborn and Glenn Hughes.

[edit] Discography

[edit] LP

2000 - Why Be In If You Could Be Out? (Sony Music/Bonton)
2001 - Save The Robots (Sony Music/Bonton)
2003 - Resistance Is Futile (Sony Music/Bonton)
2005 - Kiss Me On My Ego (Sony Music)

[edit] DVD

2004 - Lazy Youth Old Beggars

[edit] Awards

All in Czech republic:

2000 Rock & Pop Volby rocku - objev domácí
2001 Ceny Akademie populární hudby (Objev roku a Skupina roku)
2001 Rock & Pop Volby rocku - skupina roku domácí
2003 Anděl - album roku pop (Resistance Is Futile)
2004 Anděl - DVD roku (Lazy Youth Old Beggars)
2006 Anděl - Nejlepší zvuková nahrávka a Album roku pop & dance (Kiss Me On My Ego)