![]() … Our manager at the time, he said “You guys’ name is Color Me Badd.” We were sold because we had multiracial members in the group. … we still weren’t for sure who we wanted to be, but we had to come up with a name because we had graduated high school. It was all about singing, music and trying to get the girls. Me, being Mexican-American Bryan, who’s white Indian-Native American Sam, who is a white boy, and Kevin, he was African-American - but we were all buddies in high school and we never looked at the color thing at all. RM: Where did the name Color Me Badd come from?Ĭalderon: There was something that we never realized as a group : we had different cultures in the group. … Everyone is just a little older, I guess, and that’s really all that is different. … Take, for instance, last night: York, Pennsylvania. We’re going to areas that we’ve never been before. Mark Calderon: It’s been really great, just going to different places all around the country. Richmond magazine: You are on a whirlwind of a tour how is that going? We talked with original member Mark Calderon, who breaks down the origin of the group’s name and its unlikely collaboration with Insane Clown Posse. 4 at the Richmond Coliseum in a stop on the “I Love the ‘90s” tour. Rhonda will be happy to read this. Girl-from-the-cinema would not.Color Me Badd, the R&B crooners from Oklahoma City known for “I Wanna Sex You Up” and “I Adore Mi Amour,” perform Nov. Now, C.M.B., with the exception of Watters, hopes to escape from entertainment limbo, with their most recent performance at Retrolicious: a concert in Singapore with notable names like Tommy Page and All-4-One. While the future of their music career remains unclear, one thing is for sure. But after publishing their last album Awakening in 1998, the band dropped off the entertainment radar for close to 15 years. They began their career in 1987 originally with four members Bryan Abrams, Mark Calderon, Kevin Thornton, and Sam Watters. Their singles “I Wanna Sex You Up,” “All 4 Love,” and I Adore Mi Amor” were popular hits in America. ![]() ![]() ![]() experienced equal amounts of both adulation and scorn from the public. This girl came up behind me, leaned down next to my ear and said ‘I just want you to know, I think Color Me Badd sucks,’ and she just walked out,” says Abrams, "I would like to say I wasn’t affected by it. But I would be lying." “I was watching a movie with my family one time. Things that happen outside of the frames of TVs screens. Calderon, after some time, opened it, at which point she dropped her jacket and “showed her stuff," says Calderon, "it's crazy!"Īlong with upsides to boyband-fame, like adoring fans, are downsides that we don’t get to see. During the band’s tour in Canada, a girl dressed only in a big furry jacket showed up at their hotel room. They’re no stranger to forward, sometimes even aggressive, fans. “I got upset with my own family once,” says Calderon, "I was home once, and they started sharing me with other friends, saying ‘Look! See! He IS my cousin,’ and they get mad because you don’t want to go out,” says Calderon.Ĭolor Me Badd, Backstreet Boys or One Direction boybands, then and now, acquaint well with fame, and the stampede of screaming Rhondas that come with it. in many ways, sometimes, surprises can come from somewhere a little closer to home. While fans and friends can surprise boybands like C.M.B. His stern face relaxes as he reminisces, talking about the past. He smiles, his eyebrows raised as he leans forward from his chair and speaks for the first time since the start of the interview. “When we were younger, it was like a dream come true,” says Thornton as he drums his fingers across the table like it’s a piano. “It’s one thing to be overwhelmed by screaming fans, but to have people you went to school with, people you know, screaming and shaking for you, that’s the strangest thing for me,” says Abrams, folding his tattooed arms. That happened the first time the band, Bryan Abrams, Mark Calderon and Kevin Thornton, returned to perform in Oklahoma, their home city. She's screaming for Abrams and his band, Color Me Badd, or C.M.B. They grew up together in Oklahoma, knew each other since second grade, and sat next to each other in high school.īut now she’s screaming. “Rhonda, was her name,” says Bryan Abrams, as he recalls the name of his high school friend.
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