The group lit out for New York City and soon found themselves inking a major deal with Giant Records. “He asked us, ‘How would you guys like to open up in front of 20,000 people tomorrow night?’ And we’re like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ So they let us open on stage, and that’s pretty much how everything went.”įrom that pivotal moment, there was no stopping Color Me Badd. He said, ‘Jon, can we sing a song for you?’” Not only did Bon Jovi grant their request, but he followed up with an offer that none of them saw coming. “Bryan was always the best salesman out of all of us. “We went and sat in back of Jon Bon Jovi while he watched a boring movie,” Sam Watters told the Oklahoma Gazette in 2010. asked us, ‘How would you guys like to open up in front of 20,000 people tomorrow night?’ And we’re like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ In 1989, Color Me Badd gave their most important performance for rock star Jon Bon Jovi at Penn Square Mall before his band’s show the following evening at what is now the Cox Convention Center in downtown OKC. They belted out their rich, multi-part harmonies for the likes of Kool & the Gang, Huey Lewis & the News-whom the group once serenaded in their room at the Renaissance Waterford Hotel-Ronnie Milsap, Sheila E. It was, by any account, a meteoric rise for a group of can-do harmonizers who got their start singing for whoever would listen.īefore their runaway success, the members of Color Me Badd would frequently perform impromptu a'capella auditions for touring musicians traveling through the region. It was the public’s first taste of Color Me Badd’s debut album, C.M.B., which would go on to spend 77 weeks on the US Billboard 200 chart.
Since those early school days, Color Me Badd-the group’s moniker was inspired by a race horse at OKC’s Remington Park Racetrack & Casino-has gone on to fame surpassing their wildest dreams.Ĭolor Me Badd’s star rose in the spring of 1991 with the release of their explosive debut single, “I Wanna Sex You Up,” which launched the group’s doo-wop-meets-hip-hop sound into car stereos and college parties across the country. While their raw talent and knack for harmony suggested a bright future for the aspiring vocal quartet, few could have predicted that these scrappy Oklahoma kids would go on to become one of the most successful R&B groups of the following decade. Teenage vocalists Bryan Abrams, Mark Calderon, Sam Watters and Kevin Thornton met in the mid-1980s in the choir at Northwest Classen High School in Oklahoma City.
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