Boy Krazy

Infobox Musical artist
Name = Boy Krazy


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Background = group_or_band
Origin = New York City
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Genre = Pop, dance-pop,
Years_active = 1993-1993
Label = PolyGram
Past_members = Kimberly Blake
Josselyne Jones
Johnna Lee Cummings
Ruth Ann Roberts
Renee Veneziale

Boy Krazy was a New York City-based girl group that saw brief fame in 1993 as a one-hit wonder by the mainstream Pop world.

Career

Their signature Pop song "That's What Love Can Do", written and produced by British mega music trio Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman known as Stock Aitken Waterman and recorded in 1991, bubbled under for two years before getting significant airplay. Boy Krazy featured female singers Kimberly Blake, Josselyne Jones, Johnna Lee Cummings, and Ruth Ann Roberts (a former Miss Junior America). A fifth member named Renee Veneziale left shortly after "That's What Love Can Do" was first released, in 1991.

They had several singles from the album "Boy Krazy" - including "All You Have To Do" and "Good Times With Bad Boys", all of those single became only minor chart hits. "That's What Love Can Do" was also unsuccessful in the UK, but due to its success in clubs and discotheques across America and substantial airplay on radio stations, the song was remixed and re-released, becoming a hit in the US reaching the Billboard Hot 100 Top 20 in early 1993, peaking at #18. It also reached #1 in Pop airplay on the Radio & Records CHR/Pop chart. In the liners from their self titled album the group credited KQKS/Denver, Colorado for breaking the latter after one of the staffers played a version of the track in December 1992.

Main lead singer Cummings left the band in late 1993. The remaining members tried to develop a new album unsuccessfully and the group split shortly after.

The Present

After the group's demise, Ruth Ann Roberts switched careers and has become well known in the wrestling community. She is now known as Rue DeBona and co-hosted WWE's "WWE Afterburn". [cite web|url=http://www.lethalwow.com/news/archives/00000387.htm|title=Rue Baby|last=Chiappetta|first=Michael |date=2003-11-24|publisher=WWE.com|accessdate=2008-08-14] She is now married to her former co-host, Josh Lomberger. She also was a host on the short-lived "Firebrand", an attempt at commercials-as-content website and TV show on the ION network. [cite web|url=http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/firebrand-burns-out/|title=Firebrand Burns Out|last=Elliot|first=Stuart|date=2008-03-04|publisher=tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com|accessdate=2008-08-14]

Cummings pursued a solo career, but it was unsuccessful. In July 2007, Portland, Oregon-based filmmaker Kimberly Craig posted "Expect Less", a short documentary featuring Cummings on YouTube. In it, Cummings discusses her life since the hey-day of Boy Krazy. [cite video |people=Kimberly Craig, Johnna Lee Cummings |date2=2007-07-27 |title=Expect Less |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxAipty0ZEs |medium=Documentary |publisher=YouTube |accessdate=2008-08-14] Craig has since said that Cummings has "moved on... [and] is still happy".cite quote

Josselyne Jones (now known as Josselyne Herman-Saccio) is now a producer and agent, founding Josselyne Herman & Associates [ [http://www.jhamanagement.com/bio.htm Josselyne Herman & Associates ] ] in New York City.

Discography

Albums
* "Boy Krazy" (1993)

Singles
* "That's What Love Can Do" (1991) UK #86
* "All You Have To Do" (1992) UK #91
* "That's What Love Can Do" (house remix) (1993) UK #80, US Hot 100 #18, US Adult Contemporary #19
* "Good Times With Bad Boys (1993) US #59
* "On a Wing and a Prayer (1993) US didn't chart

References

External links

* [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:3zfrxqy5ldae Boy Krazy] at Allmusic
* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Boy+Krazy Boy Krazy] at Discogs