Biography

This New York funk group, led by drummer/singer Larry Blackmon, began recording in the mid-1970s, but didn't reach its peak of popularity until the 1986 hit "Word Up," which defined Cameo's angular, synth-laced sound. Blackmon's outrageous stage persona and the group's simple hooks were key elements to the band's success.

Top Tracks

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• Alligator Woman

• Back And Forth

• Cameosis

• Candy

• Feel Me

• Find My Way

• Freaky Dancin'

• Friend To Me

• I Just Want To Be

• I'll Be With You

• In The Night

• Inflation

• Insane

• It's Serious

• Keep It Hot

• Knights By Nights

• Macho

• New York

• Promiscuous

• Rigor Mortis

• Shake Your Pants

• She's Strange

• Single Life

• Skin I'm In

• Talkin' Out The Side Of Your Neck

• Two Of Us

• Why Have I Lost You

• Word Up

• Word Up!

Discography

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• Sexy Sweet Thing

  Private I / Crash Music, Inc.

  2000

• Nasty

  Intersound

  1996

• In the Face of Funk

  Way Too Funky

  1994

• Money

  Warner Bros.

  1992

• Emotional Violence

  Reprise

  1991

• Real Men Wear Black

  Casablanca

  1990

• Machismo

  Atlanta Artists

  1988

• Word Up!

  Casablanca/Universal / Mercury

  1986

• Single Life

  Casablanca

  1985

• She's Strange

  Universal Special Products / Casablanca / Special Products

  1984

• Style

  Atlanta Artists

  1983

• Alligator Woman

  1982

• Knights of the Sound Table

  Mercury

  1981

• Feel Me

  Casablanca

  1980

• Cameosis

  Mercury

  1980

• Secret Omen

  Rebound Records

  1979

• We All Know Who We Are

  Mercury

  1978

• Ugly Ego

  Universal International

  1978

• Cardiac Arrest

  Mercury

  1977