Goombay Dance Band | |
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| Origin | Hamburg, Germany |
| Genres | Euro disco, Europop Santiago pop |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Labels | CBS |
| Members | Oliver Bendt Alicia Bendt Dorothy Hellings Wendy Doorsen "Dizzy" Daniel Moorehead Mario Slijngaard |
| Past members | Beverlee Wallace Wendy Walker |
| Website | www.goombay-dance-band.com |
Goombay Dance Band is a German band created in 1979 by Oliver Bendt, named after a small bay on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. Their music has a distinctive sound (somewhat similar to Boney M.[1]), which is a mixture of soca, calypso and western pop. The group enjoyed their greatest commercial success at the beginning of the 1980s, spawning such number 1 hits as "Sun of Jamaica", "Seven Tears" and "Aloha-Oe, Until We Meet Again". Goombay Dance Band built up a fan base across Europe and proved very popular in South Africa too, where "Sun of Jamaica" and "Aloha-Oe" entered the charts.[2]