Kid Creole (rapper)

Infobox musical artist


Name = Kidd Creole
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Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Nathaniel Glover
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Born = birth date and age|1960|2|19 The Bronx, New York City, U.S.
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Instrument = Vocals
Genre = Hip hop
Occupation = Rapper
Years_active = 1978–1987
Label = Enjoy, Sugar Hill, Elektra
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Nathaniel Glover (born February 19, 1960), also known as Nate or Danny Glover, better known by the stage name Kidd Creole or Kid Creole, is an American rapper who is one of the pioneers of old school hip hop as a member of the group Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five with his brother Melle Mel.

Biography

Early days

Born to a French Canadian mother and a Dominican father in The Bronx, New York, Glover and his brother Melvin (aka Melle Mel) joined up with Cowboy (Keith Wiggins) in 1978 to form the Three MC's, with production handled by Grandmaster Flash (Joseph Saddler).

After two extra MCs joined them (Scorpio (originally Mr. Ness, aka Ed Morris) and Raheim (Guy Williams)), the group recorded two singles (one as the Younger Generation and one as Flash & the Five) before they became Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five and recorded the "Superappin"' EP for Enjoy Records, owned by R&B legend Bobby Robinson.

Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five

Kidd Creole participated in the recording of several records with Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five between 1980 and 1987. After Flash, Rahiem and Creole left The Furious Five in 1983, they continued to record together for Elektra Records, later rejoining Melle Mel and the others for a reunion in 1987.

Discography

Albums

*"The Message" (1982), Sugar Hill
*"Beat Street Breakdown" (1984), Elektra
*"On the Strength" (1988), Elektra

ingles

*'Superrappin’' (1979), Enjoy - 12-inch single
*"Freedom" (1980), Sugar Hill
*"Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel" (1981), Sugar Hill - 12-inch single