Cameo formed in New York City in 1974 as the New York City Players and became one of the defining funk bands of the 1980s, marrying tight, syncopated grooves with increasingly electronic production on hits like 'Word Up!'. Organized Noize's Sleepy Brown, whose father fronted the funk band Brick, has described growing up backstage with Cameo as part of the live-funk world that shaped his own production ear.

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1986

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