| Baha Men | |
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Baha Men performing in June 2010 |
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| Background information | |
| Also known as | The Bahas, Men of The Baha |
| Origin | Nassau, Bahamas |
| Genres | Junkanoo, dance, hip hop, reggae |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Labels | EMI/S-Curve |
| Associated acts | Los Del Rio, Diane Turner |
| Members | |
| Rik Carey Dyson Knight Jimbo Slice Anthony Flowers Jeffery Chea Patrick Carey |
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| Past members | |
| Marvin Prosper Nehemiah Hield B Rolla (Jive Turkey) |
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The Baha Men are the American singers in a Bahamian band. They play a modernised style of Bahamian music called Junkanoo.
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The group was formed in the Bahamas in 1980 as High Voltage. They used to start the genre "Junkanoo" in 1982. In 1991, they changed their name to Baha Men.
The group renamed themselves as Baha Men in 1991, and released their first album under that name, Junkanoo, in 1992. The album was very traditional in its sound.
In the 1990s they began aiming their music at a more mainstream audience, and achieved great, if short-lived, popularity with 2000's remake of "Who Let the Dogs Out?" (originally composed by Anslem Douglas), recorded with the help of Orlando Infante. The song was a chart success in many countries, and also became a popular song at US sporting events.
"Who Let the Dogs Out?" also earned the band several awards: a Grammy Award in 2000 for Best Dance Recording; Billboard Music Awards for World Music Artist of the Year and World Music Album of the Year; and a Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award for Favorite Song. In 2002, they won another Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Band.
In June 2008 "Who Let the Dogs Out?" was discussed on I Love the New Millennium. The Baha Men's most recent album was Holla! , released in 2004, but according to their MySpace page, they are set to release an album in the year 2010 and began a tour in September 2009. Baha Men will launch this tour from Nassau, Bahamas
The Baha Men were one of the many artists to record a song on the album DisneyMania and two of its four sequels. On the first DisneyMania, they recorded "Hakuna Matata" from The Lion King. On DisneyMania 2, they recorded the famous song "It's a Small World" from the Disney park attraction of the same name. They were absent from DisneyMania 3, though they returned for DisneyMania 4, recording their take on the song "Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride" from Lilo and Stitch entitled "Bahaman Roller Coaster Ride." A number of their songs have used in major motion pictures such as: Rugrats In Paris, Miss Congeniality, Rat Race, and Garfield: The Movie. They also recorded a cover of Elton John's hit "Crocodile Rock" for the film Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course starring Steve Irwin and family. In fact, the band has also made an appearance on the big screen, when they starred as themselves in the 1994 romantic comedy My Father the Hero starring Gerard Depardieu and Katherine Heigl.[1] The Baha Men also were featured in the soundtrack of Shrek with their hit song "Best Years of Our Lives". "Who Let the Dogs Out?" was also featured in the 2009 hit comedy The Hangover.
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales threshold) |
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CAN [3][4] |
NZ [5] |
SWI [6] |
UK [7] |
US [8] |
US Pop [9] |
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| 1994 | "Dancing in the Moonlight" | — | 42 | 18 | — | — | — | — | Kalik | |||||
| 1995 | "(Just a) Sunny Day' | — | — | 38 | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1997 | "That's the Way I Do It" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | I Like What I Like | |||||
| 2000 | "Who Let the Dogs Out?" | 1 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 40 | 18 | Who Let the Dogs Out? | |||||
| 2001 | "You All Dat" | 8 | — | 21 | 86 | 14 | 94 | — |
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| "The Best Years of Our Lives" | 49 | — | — | 70 | — | — | — | Move It Like This | ||||||
| 2002 | "Move It Like This" | 76[13] | 13 | 11 | 65 | 16 | — | — | Move It Like This | |||||
| 2005 | "Tell Me Lies" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album song | |||||
| 2011 | "Go!" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | Non-album song | |||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released to that country | ||||||||||||||