Profile of David Cole on Famous Like Me

C&C Music Factory consisted of producers Robert Clivillés and David Cole. They brought house music to America's heartland with the chart-topping title track of Gonna Make You Sweat (1990) and follow-up hit "Here We Go" (1991).

Their stylish visuals and production helped to distinguish them from predecessors like Technotronic's "Pump Up The Jam." After releasing 1981's "Do It Properly" (as 2 Puerto Ricans, A Black Man And A Dominican), they progressed from upfront dance to nouveau disco (epitomized by Whitney Houston's C&C-helmed "I'm Every Woman").

The group received some criticism when vocalist Martha Wash, a former member of The Weather Girls, was not shown in the video to "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" despite her prominent vocal appearance on the track. However by 1993 both C&C and Wash buried the hatchet, just in time for Wash to be the co-lead vocalist along with Zelma Davis (who lip-synched Wash's vocals in the aforementioned video, but was the original vocalist in the follow up singles and accompanying videos) for "Do You Wanna Get Funky", which would be their seventh #1 single on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1994. Wash was also featured in the video for the track as well.

Some critics applauded the producers' work with American trio Seduction. C&C's 1991 hit song "Things That Make You Go Hmmmm..." gave house a sly slant, and their storming "A Deeper Love" briefly revitalized Aretha Franklin's career. The pair continued in a funkier vein on Anything Goes (1994), but ended when Cole died of meningitis on January 24, 1995. Robert Clivillés' subsequent mix mastery -- notably his work with Mariah Carey -- keeps C&C's legacy alive. In 1995, Robert Clivillés created World Beat Madness, an ecclectical masterwork of club music, techno and ERA oriented songs. This work, released in Japan and Mexico, was not a commercial success.

Later, in October of 1996, Robert Clivillés continued his Club DJ work on one of his most precise and dance projects: Robirob's Clubworld, which spanned two singles, one of them with Ya Kid K formerly of Technotronic: Make that Money, Reach. Robirob's Boriqua Anthem's remix was also featured in this album.

Trivia

C&C Music Factory were spoofed in the mockumentary "Fear of a Black Hat". In this movie, fictional rapper "Ice Cold" produces a single with the title "Come and pet the P***Y", a house music track containing a powerful female voice which - according to the record company - belongs to a petite Asian dancer, but in reality belongs to an African-American woman which is not nearly as slender. This mirrors the Martha Wash incident (see above).

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