
All-4-One is a Grammy Award-winning male R&B group best known for their cover hit single "I Swear" from their self-titled 1994 debut album.
The group comprises Tony Borowiak, Jamie Jones, Delious Kennedy, and Alfred Nevarez, all from the Antelope Valley and Mojave, California areas, but are based in the Los Angeles area.
History
Dubbed the "Dukes of R&B", All-4-One's hit "I Swear" won a Grammy Award in 1995 for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and enjoyed an eleven-week run at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and a seven-week run at #2 in the UK. It has been named by ASCAP as one of the greatest love songs of the 20th Century. It was also nominated for Song Of The Year, as was the single Top 5 smash hit "I Can Love You Like That,". The group was popular before the #1 success of "I Swear", as their previous single "So Much in Love" (originally a #1 US hit for The Tymes in 1963) had reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 earlier in the year. Other hits include She's Got Skillz, These Arms, Beautiful as U, I Will Be Right Here & Someday (the title single from the Disney animated feature The Hunchback of Notre Dame).
A rift between their independent label, Blitzz Records, and their major label, Atlantic Records, led to the group leaving Atlantic Records as well as Blitzz Records after the release of the album On and On in 1999. The shift in labels left the group in limbo for a few years as they contemplated their next move. In 2001, the follow-up album, A41, was released on AMC Records yielding, "Beautiful As U", a Top 20 hit on the Radio & Records Adult Contemporary chart. The group's 2004 album, Split Personality, was given an Asia-only release, and subsequently gave them Asian hits with "Someone Who Lives in Your Heart & "I Just Wanna Be Your Everything". For much of the 2000s All-4-One has spent their time touring South East Asia, in cities such as Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Seoul, Bangkok and Shanghai.
All-4-One has a new deal in place on Peak Records/Concord Music Group and is readying for their summer 2009 release. Early reviews on the record have garnered an overwhelming response with some reviewers claiming No Regrets is a "career album for All-4-One" and could be the most consistently listenable CD so far this year brought to you by what could be argued as "the most talented vocal group to emerge in the 1990's". Others have taken note that while Boyz II Men have taken the easy road by doing cover tunes, All-4-One is back with a CD of original solid music. The album was largely created in-house, with the group doing the writing for the album, and Jamie Jones production company, The Heavyweights, doing a lot of the production work.
Awards
Grammy Awards
Year
Category
Song/Album
Genre
Result
1995
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
I Swear
Pop
Winner
1995
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
I Can Love You Like That
Pop
Nominated
1995
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
I'm Your Man
R&B
Nominated
American Music Awards
Year
Category
Song/Album
Genre
Result
1994
Favorite New Artist Soul/Rhythm and Blues
So Much in Love
R&B
Winner
1994
Favorite Soul/R&B Single
I Swear
R&B
Nominated
Other awards
1994 - Nominated for a Billboard Award for Song of the Year for "I Swear"
1994 - Coca-Cola Australian Music Awards - Most Popular
1994 - Golden Europa - Favorite New International Act
1994 - Biggest-Selling Single in the Guinness Book of World Records for "I Swear"
1994 - International Song for "I Swear"
1995 - Nominated for the Tina Turner Music Prize
1995 - Singapore Perfect 10 Music Awards - Favorite New Act
All All-4-One lyrics
- A Better Man
- Beautiful As U
- Beautiful As You
- Before U, Without U, After U
- Between Us
- Breathless
- Christmas With My Baby
- Colors Of Love
- Could This Be Magic
- Down To The Last Drop
- Fear No More
- Friday Night
- Frosty The Snowman
- Frosty The Snowman / Rudolph Medley
- Giving You My Heart Forever
- Green Light
- Heaven Sent
- Here For You
- Here If You�re Ready
- How To Love Again
- I Am Blessed
- I Can Love You Like That
- I Cross My Heart
- I Cross My Heart (feat. Sammi Cheng)
- I Just Wanna Be Your Everything
- I Swear
- I Turn To You
- I Will Be Right Here
- If You Want Me
- I�m Sorry
- I�m Your Man
- Keep It Goin� On
- Love Is More Than Just
- Love Is More Than Just Another Four-letter Word
- Mary�s Little Boy Child
- No Doubt
- Not Ready 4 Goodbye
- Not Ready For Goodbye
- O Come All Ye Faithful
- O� Come All Ye Faithfull
- Oh Girl
- One More Summer Night
- One Summer Night
- Open Up Your Eyes
- Roll Call
- Round & Round
- Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
- Secret
- Secrets
- (She's Got) Skillz
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