Active until 1995 | Genre House | |
Albums Adventures Beyond Clubland, Clubland 5 Awards Grammis Award for Club/Dance of the Year Similar King Bee, Gigi Hamilton, Deskee, Jomanda, 2 in a Room | ||
Clubland was a house-music act assembled by Dave Rawlings and Ronnie Herel as the production duo Quartz, with Jan Ekholm's label B-tech. The British musician Morgan King joined them as a writer. Lead vocals were variously performed by the American rappers 2 in a Room, British rapper Stepz and, increasingly, the Jamaican/Swedish singer, Zemya Hamilton.
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In the early 1990s, five songs charted on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, with three of those hitting number-one: "Let's Get Busy" (credited to Clubland featuring Quartz) (1990), "Hold On (Tighter to Love)" (1992) and "Hypnotized" (1992). Another single, "Set Me Free", hit number-one on the US Hot Dance Singles Sales chart and number 2 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. In 1993 they won a Swedish Grammy for best album with their second album, Adventures Beyond Clubland.
Zemya Hamilton (Zemya Sylveta Larsson Auna) died on 24 December 2015 from multiple sclerosis, aged 50.
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Let's Get Busy1990
Love StrainAdventures Beyond Clubland · 1992
Set Me FreeAdventures Beyond Clubland · 1992