Cabballero   (Germany)

EuroDance group
Added : 24/01/2000
28406

93

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

Latest Cabballero news

21/07/2017 : Cabballero are back and team with Pit Bailay on a cover of Murray Head's One Night In Bangkok.

31/10/2001 : Cabballero released a remixed version of their single Dancing With Tears In My Eyes.

More news

Cabballero albums

The Elements

11th Dec 1995

BUY X

Cabballero singles

	Gimme Gimme (More And More)	1994	BUY X
	Hymn	10th Sep 1994	BUY X
	Dancing With Tears In My Eyes	27th Jan 1995	BUY X
	Love Is The Message	22nd Jun 1995	BUY X
	Love Is A Shield EP	21st Aug 1995	BUY X
	Nanaya	11th Dec 1995	BUY X
	Dancing With Tears In My Eyes 2	30th Oct 2001	BUY X
	Sleeping (Now That You've Gone)	2004	BUY X
	Paris Latino	11th Jul 2011	BUY X
	Eye Of The Tiger	29th Mar 2013	BUY X
	One Night in Bangkok	4th Aug 2017	BUY X

Cabballero remixes

	Hymn (Sphinx Remix)	1994	BUY X
	Hymn (Mix & Remix)	1994	BUY X
	Dancing With Tears In My Eyes	1995	BUY X
	Nanaya	1995	BUY X
	Hymn (the remixes by Pit Bailay)	7th May 2021	BUY X

Cabballero biography

Cabballero was created by the musician Ja'Ma (Jama Johnson). The project was produced by Cabballero, R. Ribeiroa (Ronald Bähr) and Ricco Raggazzi. Rumors said the project featured the voices of the rapper A. Godwin and the female vocalist Linda Temple. This was false. According to the booklet of the album, the members were Serena M "Pearl" (rap, background vocals, performing), Kristy B (aka Kristina Barth : background vocals, performing), Zlata K "Swat" (background vocals, performing, dancer). But once again, this was not really true : actually the voices belonged to the studio vocalists Christina Safrany and Sara Pola. The singles were released under the Shift Music label.

The group started back in 1994 starting with the euro-trance style hit Hymn which was a cover version of the 80s group Ultra Vox (originally released in 27th November 1982). Hymn was released in France under the Do It Music label. It entered Top 10 in Israel (more precisely # 4) and Germany, and peaked # 1 in Spain and Italy. Rapper sounded a little like Deon Blue from Pharao (whose team did a remix for the song). After this great success the producers decided to keep on making euro-versions to the Ultra Vox hits.

The next in roll was Dancing With Tears In My Eyes, released in 1994, which also was top ten in Israel (# 4 once again), Spain, Italy (# 2) and Germany. It was so successful that once again a remixes CD was released (with a Rave remix, a Tears remix, a Goa remix and a Girls remix).

After that in 1995 came the 3rd single, Love Is A Shield, a cover of the Camouflage group (a German Depeche Mode-like band), a great eurodance hit which was # 1 in Israel dance chart, # 1 in Italy, # 5 in Spain and entered the Top 20 in Germany. The CD included a B-side entitled Mental Trance. Then they released their debut album in 1995, called The Elements.

The album included the original euro hip-hop title Teardrops and a feature track Lover
With An Attitude. These 2 tracks were re-released under K-Town Records, launching the start of the Girl Talk project, which featured Cabballero's original dancers Pearl, Zlata and Kristy B, along with Colin Eley. Lover With An Attitude received much airplay and became a radio hit prompting a remix and U.S. release in 1999

The next hit was Faith Is Rising which wasn't as big a hit but still entered Top 40 in Germany, Spain, Austria, Italy and Belgium.

The last single from the album was released in the beginning of 1996. It was a European hit but failed elsewhere in the world. This single was called Nanaya and was sampled from Israel national anthem.

Cabballero took the success of his name and live performances throughout Europe to new heights with a follow-up from his track Teardrops into managing other groups which resulted in creating a new sub label for Shift Music called K-Town Records. This is how they brought the first successful European hip-hop group, Down Low, to the German public. The Cabballero team also did remixes for projects such as Ryan Paris, Sonic Beat - I Can Fly, Samira's When I Look Into Your Eyes or Unlimited Nation's single Move Your Body.

2001 : Cabballero came back and released Dancing With Tears In My Eyes 2 on October 30th.

Remixes done by Cabballero

Ryan Paris - Dolce Vita 95
Samira's When I Look Into Your Eyes
Sonic Beat - I Can Fly
Unlimited Nation - Move Your Body

Thanks to Shimon O'Hana for the charts positions
Thanks to Christian and Anton "MC Ka$per" Skaletsky for the latest informations
Dance Artists Infos

Cabballero biography was last updated Mon, March 15th 2021

Links to Cabballero

Partner shops

Concert tickets