Koffe and Kreem

Kofi began her musical career as a member of the Lovers Rock trio Brown Sugar which also featured Caron Wheeler (Soul II Soul) and Pauline Catlin. The trio enjoyed unprecedented success, topping the UK reggae charts on three occasions and have recently been voted one of top ten black female vocal groups of all time.

 

Following the demise of Brown Sugar in the mid-1980s Kofi embarked on a solo career. She had a number of hits on the British reggae charts including five number 1's and achieved numerous awards establishing her status as one of the queens of Lovers Rock.

 

Kofi had been asked on many occasions to crossover into the Soul/RnB market. Motown Records had engaged Jazzie B (Soul II Soul) to establish a subsidiary label Funki Dreds to which he was to find and sign artistes of the highest calibre in the UK. Kofi was signed to the new label and featured on the 1992 'Soul II Soul Volume III – Just Right' album. During this period Kofi was commissioned to work for the Disney/Buena Vista project: 'Simply Mad About the Mouse: A Musical Celebration of Imagination', which was a musical tribute to the company's many successful movies over the years and as such they marked the occasion by featuring many top rated artistes to each take a very famous song from one of their beloved movies and perform it in their own unique style. This included LL Cool J, Gypsy Kings, Michael Bolton and Billy Joel, but to name a few. Kofi's contribution to the project was her rendition of "Kiss The Girl" from the film 'The Little Mermaid'.