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Latest Stay C news
26/05/2023 : In this short interview, Stay C confirmed that he would leave Twenty 4 Seven. The 90s Explosion concert in Brno next September will be his last live appearance
07/12/2022 : Samus Jay's next single is once again a collaboration with Stay C and Annerley Gordon. It will be entitled Can't Stop and it will be out early 2023
06/09/2022 : Stay C and Samus Jay recorded a second single entitled Set You Free, with vocals by Farida Merville
05/08/2022 : Discover the videoclip for Samus Jay feat. Stay C new single Dr Love
07/07/2022 : Twenty 4 Seven rapper Stay C did raps on upcoming Samus Jay single Dr Love
16/07/2019 : Twenty 4 Seven rapper Stay C is writing a new book. Titl will be "Het Wonder Van Waarom". Written in Dutch, it will gather answers to any questions and should be released in September...
08/12/2016 : Doenja & Stay C's new single is entitled Donder maar op. Videoclip was shot in Tofino, Canada.
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Wham Bam ! | 26th Jun 1995 |
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Summer Holiday | 1998 |
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Where Do We Go | 2000 |
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Full Effect (2) - Let's Have It | 1991 |
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RVR - Play The Game | 1993 |
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Twenty 4 Seven - Slave To The Music | 13th Aug 1993 |
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Twenty 4 Seven - Is It Love | 14th Nov 1993 |
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Twenty 4 Seven - Take Me Away | 28th Feb 1994 |
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Twenty 4 Seven - Leave Them Alone | 30th Jun 1994 |
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Twenty 4 Seven - Oh Baby ! | 15th Oct 1994 |
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Twenty 4 Seven - Keep On Tryin' | 8th May 1995 |
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Twenty 4 Seven - We Are The World | 30th Aug 1996 |
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Twenty 4 Seven - If You Want My Love | 27th Mar 1997 |
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Twenty 4 Seven - Friday Night | Aug 1997 |
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Twenty 4 Seven - Ne Ne | Sep 1999 |
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Twenty 4 Seven - Slave To The Music 2010 | Sep 2010 |
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Brothers In The Booth - Positivity | 27th May 2011 |
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Jeronimo - I Am No Superman | Jul 2011 |
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Dirty Ztylerz - Good Time | Oct 2011 |
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Twenty 4 Seven - The Reason | 7th Feb 2012 |
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Doenja - Kuli Kuli | 28th Feb 2012 |
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Santos Suarez and Pep & Rash - I Believe In You | 2013 |
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Dirty Ztylerz - Can You Feel It (Heeeey Yoooo) | 7th Aug 2013 |
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Doenja - Endless Love | 6th May 2014 |
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Miss J'Amore - Out Of My Mind | 5th Jun 2014 |
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Doenja - Born Again | 21st Sep 2014 |
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Peter Gelderblom and Randy Collé - Nu Nu | 27th Jan 2015 |
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Muze - Truly | Mar 2015 |
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Muze - When I Fall In Love | 28th Nov 2015 |
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Muze - Don't Move | 12th Feb 2016 |
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Doenja - Wat wil je nou! | 24th Jun 2016 |
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Doenja - Donder maar op | 18th Nov 2016 |
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Samus Jay - Dr Love | 29th Jul 2022 |
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Samus Jay - Set You Free | 14th Oct 2022 |
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Samus Jay - Jingle Bells | 16th Dec 2022 |
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Samus Jay - Can't Stop | 30th Dec 2022 |
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Samus Jay - Deck the Halls | 1st Dec 2023 |
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Urbano All Stars ft. Beatrix Delgado - 90's Feels Like Home | 26th Apr 2024 |
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Twenty 4 Seven - It Could Have Been You | 11th Sep 1992 |
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RVR - Play The Game | 1993 |
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Twenty 4 Seven - Slave To The Music | 13th Aug 1993 |
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Twenty 4 Seven - Is It Love | 14th Nov 1993 |
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Twenty 4 Seven - Take Me Away | 28th Feb 1994 |
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Twenty 4 Seven - Leave Them Alone | 30th Jun 1994 |
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Twenty 4 Seven - Keep On Tryin' | 8th May 1995 |
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Twenty 4 Seven - We Are The World | 30th Aug 1996 |
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Twenty 4 Seven - Friday Night | Aug 1997 |
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Samus Jay - Deck the Halls | 1st Dec 2023 |
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Stacey Paton - Turn Up The Music | Jul 1988 |
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Stacey Paton - Wanna Know Where The Groove Is | 1992 |
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Stay-C Paton - Blue (Da Ba Dee) | 1999 |
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Stay C biography
Rapper and singer Stacey Paton aka Stacey Seedorf was born on January 31st 1969 in Rotterdam (The Netherlands). His parents Helen and Ruud (a famous guitarist and violonist from Surinam) noticed very easily that he was attracted by everything with rhythm. From a very young age he started drumming on everything that made noise and he started singing along with most of the songs played in his parental home. When he started to make up his own melodies at the age of 8, he was sent to a music-institute to study some instruments like guitar and keyboards. Because of this it didn't take long for him to become the house-entertainer at family-parties, performing artists like Michael Jackson, who was his big idol at that time. He also discovered hip-hop at the age of 11.
While his friends and family thought it was just a way of filling his freetime, Stay-C knew that music was his life. During the following years he developed himself as a singer, songwriter and dancer. As a member of many rap and dancegroups he was getting ready to be a professional. Then he discovered hip-house music when hearing songs such as Tyree's Turn Up The Bass and Fast Eddie - Git On Up. After a couple of years of doing small performances in small clubs and after recording many, many demo-songs, the first single of Stay-C was released in 1990 : Turn Up The Music. It included a sample from Michael Jackson's Off the Wall
After the release of this song, Stay-C's professional career started taking off. Not one of the following singles had big chart-succes, but they gave him the chance to get to know the music industry and to make his name wellknown. That's how he was featured on Full Effect's single Let's Have It. Meanwhile, he worked as a car salesman and as an office clerk to pay the bills...
When in 1990 the support act of a famous Dutch dance act, that just had a major European hit, got sick, Stay-C was offered to take the place of that support act. He didn't know this Dutch dance act very well, but because he was going to support them during a European tour, this could be good chance for a final breakthrough. The funny thing is that the main-act turned out to be Twenty 4 Seven featuring Captain Hollywood & Nance. The tour went very well and Stay-C got to know Capt. Hollywood and Nance quite well : they had a great time for the whole tour. The Twenty 4 Seven-management was very satisfied with Stay-C as the support act, because he gave every he got as soon as he got on stage and the audience reacted very well on him as an unknown artist.
2 months after the tour Stay-C was called with very surprising news and a great offer : Captain Hollywood went solo and his name was called to take his place. The producer and founder of the group, Ruud van Rijen, wanted him to audition as soon as possible. He was convinced of his talent and before they realised it, the song was written and the new Twenty 4 Seven-single was recorded. It Could Have Been You, didn't have the expected succes and so Ruud van Rijen decided to change his songwriting-team. Just as an experiment he asked Stay-C to write something for the coming album and... there was Slave To The Music...
The succes of that song is known by everyone and since then all Twenty 4 Seven songs and albums were written by Ruud van Rijen & Stay-C. From the release of Slave To The Music on everything went very fast; huge succes in nearly all territories of the world, many gold and platinum awards, international tours, etc. etc. Stay-C and Nance had a couple of great years and it looked as if everything they touched turned to gold. Stay-C wrote his own texts
Stacey is black-haired, 1.83 m tall and his shoesize is 43. His favorite singers are Michael Bolton, Nat King Cole and George Michael. He also likes the band Earth Wind & Fire. His favorite record is All My Life by KC & Jojo. His favorite movie is Star Wars (because of the special effects). He wears every type of clothing as long as it's not too tight. His preferred cities are Amsterdam and Rio de Janeiro, but he also appreciates South Africa very much. He loves Japanese (Tepan Yaki) and drinking milk. He drives a Jeep Grand Cherokee. He had 2 sons with Ingrid, one of them even appeared in the Slave To The Music video. His grandma is an American native, that's why he felt concerned about Indians and suggested the song Leave Them Alone.
After almost three years of worldwide succes and being together for almost 24/7 (24 hours a day/seven days a week), Nance and Stay-C came to a point where each wanted to go their own way and startup a solo-career. Wham Bam ! was the first solo-single released by Stay-C and in a time where his first album was almost finished, he was called by Ruud van Rijen, who asked him to help him find a new female singer and join Twenty 4 Seven again. Because of his warm and succesful memories of working with the Masterproducer RVR, it didn't take him long to decide ending his solo-activities so far.
But after a year Twenty 4 Seven with Stella, they split because Stay-C wanted to have a solo-carreer and Stella was very busy with her modelling and dance-school. Stay-C released a new solo single called Summer. The reason he left Twenty 4 Seven was that he wanted to do some more europop songs, but Twenty 4 Seven producer Ruud van Rijen didn't think the songs that he wanted didn't fit in the Twenty 4 Seven concept of fast eurodance tunes. So they decided to split up as friends.
Stay-C released a cover of Prince's song, 1999, with three other artists under the name of 'NLPR'. This name stands for the first letter of each surname of one of the artists : N for Nelson, L for Llorenna, P for Paton (Stay-C) and R for Romanov. Marcel Romanov has also scored some big hits in Germany.
In Summer 1999 : Stay-C released a single entitled Blue (Da Ba Dee). Afterwards Eiffel 65 released the same single which became a summer hit all over Europe, while Stay-C's version had more success in South Africa, South America and Japan.
Afterwards, he had some tough years. He tried to find money to maintain his family's standard of living (he had 2 kids : Dyon born in 1990 and Jamie born in 1993). The result was that did 3 years in jail for carrying ecstasy pills in Australia. He put this time to use in reading books about psychology and Neuro Linguistic Programming.
Stacey started his own company, Lino Dordrecht and worked as a life coach. He still had contact with Ruud van Rijen and they started to write songs together again.
2010 : Stacey appeared with Twenty 4 Seven for some live appearances. In September, it was official : he was back in the project. He shared the stage with 2 vocalists : Li Ann van Groen and Sharon Doorson. Sharon did not stay very long.
2011 : Stay C was featured on Jeronimo's single I am no Superman and appeared in the videoclip as well.
He also recorded a vocal house track with Brothers in The Booth entitled Positivity.2012 : besides his role as rapper in Twenty 4 Seven, Stacey founded the Stay-C Music Entertainment Academy. In September, he competed during blind auditions of The Voice Of Holland 3rd season but was not selected.
2013 : in July, he was featured on Dirty Ztylerz new single Can You Feel It (Heeeey Yoooo). He also did vocals on Jara van Kesteren aka Miss J'amore's single Out Of My Mind.
2014 : Stay-C was featured on 2 singles by Doenja : Endless Love and Born Again.
2015 : Stay C did vocals on Peter Gelderblom & Randy Collé's single Nu Nu. He released a new book called Alles is Liefde. He founded project Muze with singer Doenja.
2016 : Stay C wrote a new book entitled "Mijn leven, mijn keuzes, mijn gevolgen". He released several singles with Doenja as featured artist or under Muze.
2017 : Stay C officially revealed that him and his current Twenty 4 Seven partner Li Ann were a couple in real life.
2021 : Stay C left Twenty 4 Seven. He became a father again, his son was called Milan.
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Thanks to Dance Music News, Ruud van Rijen himself
Stay C biography was last updated Tue, July 12th 2022
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