Turbo B   (USA)

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Latest Turbo B news

21/09/2018 : Turbo B was featured on FolkustiX's folkloric cover of Snap! Colour of love (Thanks to Krasi)

14/03/2014 : End of February, Turbo B released his new single Last Call for Alcohol.

17/01/2014 : You can discover and download Jason Dean's remix for Turbo B's new song Last Call for free on his Soundclound account. Turbo B also visited The Company's song Party Like This (Thanks to Krasi)

07/06/2012 : Turbo B was featured on Rumnetsa & Enchev feat Turbo B, N.A.S.O. & Marieta Pak na More (thanks to Dato Oliver)

30/12/2011 : After 19 years, Turbo B and Thea Austin appeared together again on stage, during a Justin Timberlake benefit concert called "JT & Friends", in october 2011 (thanks to Dato Oliver).

30/12/2011 : Discover a remix of Turbo B's track I Can Make You Dance. It could be his 2012 single... (thanks to Dato Oliver)

04/08/2009 : Turbo B did a collaboration with rappers duo Rumanetsa & Enchev and the Holland singer Miss Romagna from the band R.O.O.M. The result is entitled Don't Cha Know. The single already entered the Bulgarian radio charts last week and will be released later as a maxi in America, Holland, Turkey and Romania (thanks to eurodance blog and Krassik).

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Turbo B albums

	Get Wild		BUY X
	Make Way For The Maniac	1993	BUY X
	Top of the Food Chain	1999	BUY X

Turbo B singles

	Witness The Strength	1990	BUY X
	Lyrical Jesse James	1992	BUY X
	Maniac	1992	BUY X
	I'm Not Dead (feat. Thea T. Austin)	1993	BUY X
	Nice & Smooth	1993	BUY X
	What You See	2nd Oct 1993	BUY X
	Get Wild	1995	BUY X
	New Day	26th Sep 2005	BUY X
	Last Call for Alcohol	28th Feb 2014	BUY X

Turbo B remixes

Get Wild (Plutone Remix)

12th Jan 1995

BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

	Snap - The Power	1989	BUY X
	Moses P - Total Kontrol	1989	BUY X
	Space Bass - Main Line, Pump Up This Party	1990	BUY X
	Snap - Ooops Up	Sep 1990	BUY X
	Snap - Cult of Snap	Jan 1991	BUY X
	Sharada House Gang - Life Is Life	2nd Mar 1991	BUY X
	Snap - Mary Had A Little Boy	Apr 1991	BUY X
	Snap - Megamix	Sep 1991	BUY X
	Snap - Color Of Love	Mar 1992	BUY X
	Snap - Rhythm Is A Dancer	30th Mar 1992	BUY X
	Lory Lee - Let Me Be	11th Jun 1993	BUY X
	Centory - Point Of No Return	20th Aug 1994	BUY X
	Comic - I Surrender To Your Love	27th Oct 1994	BUY X
	Centory - Take It To The Limit	28th Oct 1994	BUY X
	Centory - Eye In The Sky	5th May 1995	BUY X
	Viktoria Silvstedt - Rocksteady Love	1999	BUY X
	Snap - Gimme A Thrill	29th May 2000	BUY X
	Quest - Lonely	2002	BUY X
	Master Blaster - Ballet Dancer	2003	BUY X
	R E - Don't Cha Know	Aug 2009	BUY X
	Regi - We Be Hot	Jul 2011	BUY X
	Rumnetsa & Enchev - By The Sea	11th Jun 2013	BUY X

Compositions

Snap - Cult of Snap

Jan 1991

BUY X

Songwriting

	Snap - Ooops Up	Sep 1990	BUY X
	Snap - Cult of Snap	Jan 1991	BUY X
	Centory - Point Of No Return	20th Aug 1994	BUY X
	Centory - Take It To The Limit	28th Oct 1994	BUY X
	Centory - Eye In The Sky	5th May 1995	BUY X

Turbo B biography

(Maurice Darron Butler) is mostly known as rapper for the projects Snap and Centory. He was born on the 30th of April 1967 in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, USA) and started his musical career as drummer with a heavy metal band called Oblivion in his hometown. He is 1,95 m tall. He has a daughter named Shannon and a son named DJ

He was sent to Frankfurt in 1985 by his Uncle Sam to become a bomb disposal expert. Rico Sparx and Moses P discovered he was a first class rapper and human beat-box. After his discharge he returned to the USA but went back to Germany to continue his musical carrer.

His talents earned him spots with acts such as Maze and The Fat Boys. He has shared the stage with such artists as Chaka Kahn, Michael Jackson, Natalie Cole, Sinbad, Hall & Oates, and even Tom Jones. He also collaborated with Mark Spoon. He did uncredited raps on Space Bass - Pump Up This Party, a song used as them of a TV show called Main Line on Hessel Drel. The raps were sampled a few years later by eurodance project Lory Lee.

Germany-based producers Benito Benites and John Garrett Virgo III, had put together a project they would call Snap!, after a function on a sequencing programme. They recorded a song called The Power which was built from samples of New York rapper Chill Rob G (Robert Frazier)'s Let The Rhythm Flow. They added the powerful female vocals of Penny Ford. The record was first released on the Wild Pitch Records label in America with the credit Snap featuring Chill Rob G. However, after the first 30.000 sales, problems with Chill began to manifest themselves and they sought a replacement. They chose Butler, who was renamed Turbo B.

Chill was allowed to release his own version of The Power in America. Around the rest of the world a new version, featuring Turbo B, topped the charts. To promote the record, Turbo and Penny Ford toured widely, before she started on a solo career and was replaced by Thea Austin. Whereas they continued to score colossal hits with Oops Up, Cult Of Snap and Mary Had A Little Boy, dissent had set in. Turbo wanted more artistic input, and contested the choice of Rhythm Is A Dancer as projected lead-off single for the band's second album. He told that he hated the song and influenced the producers in their decision to release The Colour Of Love instead. The single flopped, whereas Rhythm Is A Dancer became another international smash (the biggest selling UK single of 1992). By now the rift between the parties was irreconcilable. Turbo had signed up for a solo career (debuting with I'm Not Dead on Polydor Records, with vocals by Thea) while the Snap! single was still climbing in several territories. Thea Austin too found herself a solo contract.

Between 1994 and 1997 Turbo B created many projects in which he appeared or not : Centory, the Porn Boys... He did raps on Comic's I Surrender To Your Love. Then he moved to Orlando (Florida).

1999 : he released a single featured by the ex cover-girl Victoria Silvstedt (Rocksteady Love).

2002 : a single was released, entitled Quest featuring Turbo B : Lonely. It was released under ZYX Music

2003 : Turbo B was back with Snap for the singles The Power 2003 and Rhythm Is A Dancer 2003. Then he was featured by Master Blaster on their new single Ballet Dancer.

2005 : Turbo B appeared with Snap in the German TV show Ultimative Charts Show in June. He rapped on The Power, along with Garcia's former vocalist Ouided Khachnaoui. He recorded a new solo single : New Day which will be released on September 26th.

2010 : Turbo B was featured on Regi's album Registrated 2.

Remixes done by Turbo B

D.J. Professor - Life Is Life
The Pack - Stand & Fight (1990)

Thanks to nolimits, Necronomic, Denis "DJ Hooligan" Zhabkin and D-man '94 for the latest informations

Turbo B biography was last updated Tue, March 2nd 2021

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