Jamiroquai

Jamiroquai
The band Jamiroquai performing on stage at Coachella 2018. At center is vocalist Jay Kay wearing a colorful Native-American shirt with frills around the waist and a white LED head-dress. Also present are a guitarist, a bassist, a drummer and two female backing vocalists. The band is engulfed in roughly waist-level stage fog colored purple by stage lighting.
Jamiroquai performing at the
Coachella Music Festival in 2018
Background information
OriginLondon, England
Genres
Years active1992–present
Labels
Members
Past members
Websitejamiroquai.com

Jamiroquai (/əˈmɪrəkw/ jə-MIRR-ə-kwy) are an English acid jazz and funk band from London. Formed in 1992, they are fronted by vocalist Jay Kay, and were prominent in the London-based funk and acid jazz movement of the 1990s. They built on their acid jazz sound in their early releases and later drew from rock, disco, electronic and Latin music genres. Lyrically, the group has addressed social and environmental justice. Kay has remained as the only original member through several line-up changes.

The band made their debut under Acid Jazz Records but subsequently found mainstream success under Sony. While under this label, three of their albums have charted at number one in the UK, including Emergency on Planet Earth (1993), Synkronized (1999), A Funk Odyssey (2001), and the band's single, "Deeper Underground" (1998).

As of 2017, Jamiroquai had sold more than 26 million albums worldwide. Their third album, Travelling Without Moving (1996), received a Guinness World Record as the best-selling funk album in history. The music video for its second single, "Virtual Insanity", also contributed to the band's success. The song was named Video of the Year at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards and earned the band a Grammy Award in 1998.