Sound Files (MP3)
How Deep Is Your Love - from the album Enter the Dru
These Are The Times - from the album Enter the Dru
In My Bed (w/Jermaine Dupri & Da Brat) - from the album Dru Hill
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Urban R&B outfit Dru Hill took their name from the historic Druid Hill Park complex in Baltimore, USA, where all four members were raised. They began their rise to fame in the mid-90s, largely through the intervention of Island Records' Hiriam Hicks - formerly manager of Boyz II Men. He was looking for a group to record a song, "Tell Me", for the soundtrack to the movie Eddie, to which Island held the rights. A tape of the quartet was passed to him by University Music president Haqq Islam. So impressed was Hicks after meeting the four men that, not only did he ask them to perform a version of "Tell Me" on the spot, but he also signed them to a worldwide contract with Island. At that time the members - Jazz, Nokio, Woody and Sisqo (b. Mark Andrews, 9 November 1978, Baltimore, Maryland, USA), were all still in their teens. Nevertheless, their self-titled debut album sounded impressively mature. The smoky jazz and R&B tracks benefited enormously from the input of producers Keith Sweat, Stanley Brown and Darryl Simmons, though Nokio also co-wrote and produced much of the contents.
While their syncopated vocals were one highlight, Sisqo and Jazz also contributed heavily as musicians, playing keyboards, bass and trumpet between them. By the late 90s the quartet had truly established themselves, with six consecutive American R&B Number 1 singles followed by the equally commercial follow-up Enter The Dru, which debuted at US number 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart in November 1998. The album ranged from the hard-edged urban R&B of "How Deep Is Your Love" (US number 3/UK number 9) to the schmaltzy Babyface single "These Are The Times" (US number 21/UK number 4). In 1999, they appeared on Will Smith's US chart-topping soundtrack hit, "Wild Wild West", and set up their own Dru World Order production company. They also began work on separate solo projects, with Sisqo first out of the block on his Def Jam Records debut, Unleash The Dragon. But in 2002, they made a triumphant return, reuniting after a four-year hiatus, with the album Dru World Order. Sound Files (MP3) How Deep Is Your Love - from the album Enter the Dru These Are The Times - from the album Enter the Dru In My Bed (w/Jermaine Dupri & Da Brat) - from the album Dru Hill |
 Dru Hill Released: 1996 Label: Island |
 Enter The Dru Released: 1998 Label: Island |
Dru World Order Released: 2002 Label: Def Soul |