C&C Music Factory
A production team comprising Robert Clivillés (b. c.1960, New York, USA) and David Cole (b. c.1962, Tennessee, USA, d. 1995), who first recorded as 2 Puerto Ricans, A Black Man And A Dominican with Do It Properly on their own label in 1987. As C they reached number 3 in the UK with Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now), in 1990. Although this was credited to C featuring Freedom Williams (b. c.1966; a rapper who also appeared on records by New Kids On The Block and Grace Jones), the duo were solely in charge of matters, hiring vocalists and musicians and programming the backbeat. Over the next two years guest singers included Zelma Davis (b. c.1967, Liberia), whose contribution was lip-synched, with the vocal actually provided by Martha Wash of the Weather Girls, Q Unique and Deborah Cooper (ex-Fatback Band, Change). Though they scored six further Top 40 US hits during 1991 and 1992, only Things That Make You Go Hmmm, again jointly credited with Williams, reached the Top 10. It was later widely played during a television advertising campaign. They have also worked as remixers on songs by Seduction, Sandee and Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam, examples of which were contained on their 1992 album, credited under their own names. Their first remix had been Natalie Cole's Pink Cadillac, which, in drastically altered form, broke the US Top 5.